Julia Kolb

Dr. rer. nat. Julia Kolb

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Lehrstuhl für Kontinuumsmechanik (Schwerpunkt Biomechanik) (LKM, Prof. Budday)

Raum E4-06
Dr.-Mack-Straße 81
90762 Fürth

Short Bio

Julia Kolb, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Continuum Mechanics and Biomechanics (LKM), started her scientific journey as an apprentice for biological lab technician at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg. During this time, she spent 4 months abroad at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, for which she received a Leonardo Da Vinci scholarship by the European Commission. After the apprenticeship, Julia started studying molecular medicine at the FAU, where she completed her Master’s degree in 2020. During the studies, she spent one semester as an intern at the German Federal Criminal Office (BKA). She pursued her PhD on the role of specific proteoglycans on structural and mechanical properties of the CNS injury environment at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and the Max-Planck Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM) under the guidance of Dr. Daniel Wehner and Prof. Dr. Johann Helmut Brandstätter (FAU) and as part of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) Physics and Medicine.

Julia joined the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Mechanics-augmented brain surgery (MAGERY)’ in 2024, focusing on mechanical properties of brain tissue and mechanics-induced cell response.

When she is not in the lab, Julia can be found in her vegetable garden, on the badminton court or in front of a sewing machine.

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2025

Jun S., Herbst A., Scheffter K., John N., Kolb J., Wehner D., Fattahi H.:
Nonlinear dynamics of femtosecond laser interaction with the central nervous system in zebrafish
Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXXVI 2025 (San Francisco, CA, USA, 25. January 2025 - 27. January 2025)
In: Norbert Linz, Joel N. Bixler, Alex J. Walsh (ed.): Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE 2025
DOI: 10.1117/12.3039763

2024

Jun S., Jun S., Herbst A., Herbst A., Scheffter K., John N., Kolb J., Wehner D., Fattahi H.:
Nonlinear dynamics of femtosecond laser interaction with the central nervous system in zebrafish
In: Communications Physics 7 (2024), Article No.: 161
ISSN: 2399-3650
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-024-01653-2
Möckel C., Beck T., Kaliman S., Abuhattum S., Kim K., Kolb J., Wehner D., Zaburdaev V., Guck J.:
Estimation of the mass density of biological matter from refractive index measurements
In: Biophysical Reports (2024), p. 100156
ISSN: 2667-0747
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpr.2024.100156

2023

Kolb J., Tsata V., John N., Kim K., Möckel C., Rosso G., Kurbel V., Parmar A., Sharma G., Karandasheva K., Abuhattum S., Lyraki O., Beck T., Mueller P., Schlüßler R., Frischknecht R., Wehner A., Krombholz N., Steigenberger B., Beis D., Takeoka A., Blümcke I., Möllmert S., Singh K., Guck J., Kobow K., Wehner D.:
Small leucine-rich proteoglycans inhibit CNS regeneration by modifying the structural and mechanical properties of the lesion environment
In: Nature Communications 14 (2023), Article No.: 6814
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42339-7

2022

John N., Kolb J., Wehner D.:
Mechanical spinal cord transection in larval zebrafish and subsequent whole-mount histological processing
In: STAR Protocols 3 (2022), Article No.: 101093
ISSN: 2666-1667
DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2021.101093

2021

Tsata V., Schweitzer C., Kolb J., Moeckel C., Boehm B., Rosso G., Lange C., Lesche M., Hammer J., Kesavan G., Beis D., Guck J., Brand M., Wehner D., Möllmert S.:
A switch in pdgfrb+ cell-derived ECM composition prevents inhibitory scarring and promotes axon regeneration in the zebrafish spinal cord
In: Developmental Cell 56 (2021), p. 509-524.e9
ISSN: 1534-5807
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.12.009