M.Sc. Lion Raaz
Lion Raaz is a PhD candidate of the International Max Planck Research School for Biology and Computation (IMPRS-BAC) at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in the group of Stefan Mundlos for Development and Disease, in close collaboration with Petra Knaus' group for Signal Transduction in the Biochemistry department of Freie Universität Berlin. Bridging the fields of chromatin organisation and cellular signalling allows him to follow his strong interest in the effects of mechanical forces on the regulation of cellular processes. While his master's studies in biophysics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin provided him with the theoretical foundations, he developed his strong fascination in the field during his research in Viola Vogel's group for applied mechanobiology at ETH Zurich.
Current
Lecture: Foundations in Bio-Medicine (FU Berlin, Bioinformatics Master's Degree Program)
Past
Practical Course: Einführung in die Embryonalentwicklung (Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Modellstudiengang Medizin)
Seminar: Von der DNA-Replikation über die Chromosomen zu den Grundlagen der Vererbung (Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Modellstudiengang Medizin)
Raaz, L., Mendez, P.-L., Mundlos, S., Knaus, P., & Jatzlau, J. (2024). Protocol for chromatin accessibility profiling of human endothelial cells cultured under fluid shear stress using ATAC-seq. STAR Protocols, 5(1), 102859. DOI: 10.1016/J.XPRO.2024.102859
Jatzlau, J., Mendez, P.-L., Altay, A., Raaz, L., Zhang, Y., Mähr, S., Sesver, A., Reichenbach, M., Mundlos, S., Vingron, M., & Knaus, P. (2023). Fluid Shear Stress-modulated chromatin accessibility reveals the mechano-dependency of endothelial SMAD1/5-mediated gene transcription. IScience, 107405. DOI: 10.1016/J.ISCI.2023.107405
Aramesh, M., Stoycheva, D., Raaz, L., & Klotzsch, E. (2019). Engineering T-cell activation for immunotherapy by mechanical forces. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 10, 134–141. DOI: 10.1016/j.cobme.2019.05.004