Ivan has joined the laboratory for his bachelor thesis to study autophagy in the context of immune signaling. Supervised by Lina Herhaus, he focused on the interaction of the Immunity related GTPase Q (IRGQ) with the autophagy machinery and its impact on immune signaling using biochemical assays and fluorescence microscopy. He is currently enrolled in the Master's program "Molecular Biosciences" at the University of Heidelberg majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology.