Curriculum vitae

Main Research Areas
  • Intravital 2-photon microscopy of the immune system
  • Software development for automated and advanced image analysis and model-based simulations
  • Image-based Systems Biology
Professional Career
since 2016 Research associate, imaging and image analysis specialist at the Hans Knoell Institute, Jena
2016-2016 Microscopy and imaging specialist at the Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum (DRFZ) and the Beuth Hochschule, Berlin
2012-2016 Microscopy and imaging specialist in the JIMI (Joint Intravital Microscopy and Imaging) project at the Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum, Max Delbrück Center (Berlin) and at the Hans Knoell Institute, Jena
2010-2012 Research associate and Co-manager of the Confocal and 2-Photon Microscopy Core Facility at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin
2007-2010 Imaging Facility manager in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge (GB)
1994-2007 Research associate and confocal imaging specialist in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Maryland Baltimore (USA)
1991-1994 Research associate in the Department of Physiology at the School of Medicine at Debrecen University (HU)
1985-1991 Research associate in the Department of Solid State Physics at Debrecen University (HU)

Publications

Stanford FA, Matthies N, Cseresnyés Z, Figge MT, Hassan MIA, Voigt K (2021) Expression patterns in reductive iron assimilation and functional consequences during phagocytosis of Lichtheimia corymbifera, an emerging cause of mucormycosis. J Fungi (Basel) 7(4), 272.
Böttcher B, Hoffmann B, Garbe E, Weise T, Cseresnyés Z, Brandt P, Dietrich S, Driesch D, Figge MT, Vylkova S (2020) The transcription factor Stp2 is important for Candida albicans biofilm establishment and sustainability. Front Microbiol 11, 794.
Cseresnyes Z*, Hassan MIA*, Dahse HM, Voigt K, Figge MT; * shared first authors (2020) Quantitative impact of cell membrane fluorescence labeling on phagocytosis measurements in confrontation assays. Front Microbiol 11, 1193.
Deinhardt-Emmer S, Rennert K, Schicke E, Cseresnyés Z, Windolph M, Nietzsche S, Heller R, Siwczak F, Haupt KF, Carlstedt S, Schacke M, Figge MT, Ehrhardt C, Löffler B, Mosig AS (2020) Co-infection with Staphylococcus aureus after primary influenza virus infection leads to damage of the endothelium in a human alveolus-on-a-chip model. Biofabrication 12(2), 025012.
Drost N*, Houtman J*, Cseresnyés Z, Niesner R, Rinnenthal JL, Miller KR, Prokop S**, Heppner FL**; * authors contributed equally; corresponding authors; ** authors contributed equally (2020) The Amyloid-beta rich CNS environment alters myeloid cell functionality independent of their origin. Sci Rep 10(1), 7152.
Hassan MIA, Kruse JM, Krüger T, Dahse HM, Cseresnyés Z, Blango MG, Slevogt H, Hörhold F, Ast V, König R, Figge MT, Kniemeyer O, Brakhage AA, Voigt K (2020) Functional surface proteomic profiling reveals the host heat-shock protein A8 as a mediator of Lichtheimia corymbifera recognition by murine alveolar macrophages. Environ Microbiol 22(9), 3722-3740.
Medyukhina A*, Blickensdorf M*, Cseresnyés Z, Ruef N, Stein JV, Figge MT; * authors contributed equally (2020) Dynamic spherical harmonics approach for shape classification of migrating cells. Sci Rep 10(1), 6072.
Schicke E, Cseresnyes Z, Rennert K, Vau V, Haupt KF, Hornung F, Nietzsche S, Swiczak F, Schmidtke M, Koch M, Glück B, Schacke M, Heller R, Mosig AS, Figge MT, Ehrhardt C, Löffler B, Deinhardt-Emmer S (2020) Staphylococcus aureus lung infection results in down-regulation of surfactant protein-A mainly caused by pro-inflammatory macrophages. Microorganisms 8(4), 577.
Schmidt F, Thywißen A, Goldmann M, Cunha C, Cseresnyés Z, Schmidt H, Rafiq M, Galiani S, Gräler MH, Chamilos G, Lacerda JF, Campos Jr A, Eggeling C, Figge MT, Heinekamp T, Filler SG, Carvalho A, Brakhage AA (2020) Flotillin-dependent lipid-raft microdomains are required for functional phagolysosomes against fungal infections. Cell Rep 32(7), 108017.
Shopova IA, Belyaev I, Dasari P, Jahreis S, Stroe MC, Cseresnyés Z, Zimmermann AK, Medyukhina A, Svensson C-M, Krüger T, Szeifert V, Nietzsche S, Conrad T, Blango MG, Kniemeyer O, von Lilienfeld-Toal M, Zipfel PF, Ligeti E, Figge MT, Brakhage AA (2020) Human neutrophils produce antifungal extracellular vesicles against Aspergillus fumigatus. mBio 11(2), e00596-20.

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