People
Welcome Elizabeth!
We all wish you a very creative and fun PhD time to come ...[2023-08]
Paper
When and where the skin begins
Congratulations Tina to this masterpiece! Your scientific spirit, talent, and endurance have mapped the beginning of skin lineages.[2023-07] [link]
People
Karl's PhD Defense
It has been an extraordinary fruitful and fun PhD journey - "the point-of-no-return" has come, congratulations Dr. Annusver! Thanks for being an outstanding opponent, Ryan Driskell..[2023-06] [link]
Paper
Power of healthy cells to suppress cancer growth
Congratulations Karl and Sara. In a most wonderful collaboration with Valentina Greco's lab we uncovered how healthy cells can suppress oncogenic growth.[2023-06] [link]
People
Welcome Linda!
A wonderful PhD journey has begun ...[2023-05]
Paper
How plastic are skin cells?
Xiaoyan has transformed literature into a fantastic Review about 'Plasticity of Epithelial Cells during Skin Wound Healing'[2023-04] [link]
People
Welcome David!
We wish you a very fruitful Master thesis![2023-01]
Paper
To be or not to be a stem cell
Congratulations Karl and Katie. In a most wonderful collaboration with Valentina Greco's lab we captured stem cells at their point of no return.[2022-11] [link]
Awards/Grants
Swedish Research Council
Congratulations Maria for a new project grant from Vetenskapsrådet (VR)[2022-11] [link]
Awards/Grants
KAW Project Grant
An exciting scientific journey ahead, together with Pekka Katajisto's lab! Thank you Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation![2022-10] [link]
People
Welcome, little Villiam!
Our warmest congratulations Karl & Ani![2022-09]
People
Welcome to our new PhD student Nil!
We are very happy that you have joined us, and we all wish you an exciting scientific time ahead ![2022-05]
Extracurricular
Swiss Chocolates
Christina, thank you for the fantastic chocolates ... very tasty.[2022-05]
People
Welcome back Christina!
Christina made an Erasmus exchange 2021 in our lab and we are very happy that you joined us again for your Master Thesis![2022-04]
Awards/Grants
Cancer Research Grant
Many thanks to Cancerfonden for the fantastic support![2021-11] [link]
Awards/Grants
Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Grant
Thanks to support from StratRegen we can continue our exciting research in skin regeneration![2021-05] [link]
People
Tina's PhD Defense
Congratulations, Dr. Jacob! A fantastic time comes to an end transitioning to a bright future. Thanks for being an outstanding opponent, Carlos Clavel.[2021-04] [link]
Extracurricular
Spring Party!
Celebrating the rare possibility to meet "inbetween high Covid-19" periods to celebrate.....[2021-04]
People
Welcome to our new PhD student Hao!
First picture at Arlanda Airport (Stockholm), after a long flight. It will be exciting to explore new skin cell types together![2021-01]
Work Life
Strong presence at the SPIM meeting
Karl and Tina were selected to present their PhD work, and Maria was invited speaker.[2020-11] [link]
Work Life
Welcome Kasper Lab in Biomedicum
We are very inspired and happy to have joined the Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) at Karolinska Institutet in Solna.[2020-10]
Work Life
The Kasper Lab moves
Thank you BioNut for more than a decade of exciting science, fantastic colleagues and friends![2020-09]
Paper
Look, a new hair follicle!
Our study on de novo hair follicle induction is out in eLife. Cell-type specific activation of Hedgehog signalling induces new hair follicles in adult mouse skin. For a quick and easy read, check out our eLife digest "Raising hair".[2020-03] [link]
Paper
Mouse Skin Atlas
Our new single-cell atlas of skin is out in Cell Stem Cell. Congratulations to Simon, Karl and all co-authors! Thanks to Ines Sequeira and Rickard Sandberg for a great collaboration. Make sure to check your favourite gene in our online tool! We are especially proud of Tina’s artwork being featured on the cover.[2020-02] [link]
People
Saying good-bye to Jérôme and Felix
We will miss you![2019-12]
Awards/Grants
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Maria for securing the highly-competitive KI Consolidator Grant![2019-12] [link]
Awards/Grants
Exciting times are about to come
Leo Foundation will support our endavour to create a human skin body map.Thank you very much![2019-12]
People
Welcome to Agnes!
Agnes is a visiting PostDoc from the Beate Lichtenberger lab (Medical University of Vienna), who joins our lab to learn about computational biology of skin.[2019-11]
People
Welcome to our internship student Felix!
None[2019-09]
Work Life
GOSSIPER Retreat
United by an interest for stem cells... Retreat to the Stockholm archipelago with the GOSSIPER research network.[2019-08]
People
Welcome to Jérôme Lamartine!
Jérôme joins our lab for 6 months as a visiting professor. We are looking forward to great discussions about human skin![2019-07]
Work Life
Teamwork at its best
When the whole lab joins forces to succeed with revision experiments.[2019-06]
Paper
When stem cells and immune cells talk....
Our preview "welcoming the Trichophages" is out. Exciting original work on "Stem cell - immune cell crosstalk" from the Christiano Lab![2019-04]
People
Simon’s PhD Defense
Congratulations, Dr. Joost! A very fruitful time in the lab comes to an end. Thanks for being an outstanding opponent, Dominic Grün.[2019-01] [link]
People
Kasper lab as of 2018
None[2018-12]
People
Welcome, little Frida!
Congratulations to Tina![2018-10]
Paper
What happens during wound healing
Our new paper describing the molecular response of skin stem cells to wounding is out in Cell Reports. Congratulations to Simon and all co-authors![2018-10]
People
Welcome, little Felix!
Congratulations to Maria![2018-05]
Work Life
Our new home
Moving into the brand-new “Neo” building, a hub for experimental biomedical research.[2018-01]
Awards/Grants
Congratulations!
Tim receives the prestigious Wenner-Gren grant for 2018/2019.[2017-12]
Work Life
Building our new supercomputer
Now we can do even faster image analysis and single-cell RNAseq analysis[2017-11]
Extracurricular
When art meets science
Proud to be featured in the ”The invisible body” exhibition at Sven-Harrys konstmuseum.[2017-11]
Work Life
Single Cell Genomics 2017
Keeping up with exciting new developments in the single cell field at the Single Cell Genomics conference in Israel![2017-11]
Extracurricular
When you really like skin…
"Wow, what a birthday present. Thank you MKA lab!", says Maria.[2017-10]
Awards/Grants
Congratulations!
Tina receives the Poster Award at the Ernst Klenk Symposium on “Tissue regeneration, wound healing and fibrosis” in Cologne, Germany.[2017-10]
Extracurricular
Lab dinner with great Georgian food
None[2017-10]
Awards/Grants
Congratulations!
Maria receives the Gold Award of the LEO foundation.[2017-09] [link]
People
Welcome, little Julian!
Congratulations to Xiaoyan![2017-09]
Work Life
ISSCR 2017
Getting inspired by cutting-edge research at the ISSCR conference in Boston, US.[2017-06]
Extracurricular
Successful teamwork
Escape Room with our visiting PhD student Christina.[2017-04]
People
Welcome to our new PostDoc Tim!
It will be exciting to combine his expertise in immunology with our expertise in skin biology.[2017-02]
Paper
Skin in time and space
Our single-cell atlas of telogen mouse skin is out in Cell Systems. Congratulations to Simon and all co-authors! Thanks to the Linnarsson lab for a great collaboration. We are especially proud of Karl’s artwork being featured on the cover.[2016-09] [link]
People
Welcome, little Leonas!
The first baby boy born in MKA lab. Congratulations to Maria![2016-06]
Extracurricular
Fair play at the KI cup
Tina joins the department’s soccer team.[2016-05]
People
Great team, great spirit!
Celebrating celebrating....[2016-05]
People
Welcome to Christina!
Christina is a visiting PhD student from the Fritz Aberger lab (University of Salzburg), who will stay with us for 6 months![2016-04]
People
Anja’s PhD Defense
Congratulations to a great defense, Dr. Füllgrabe! Thanks for being an outstanding opponent, Vladimir Botchkarev.[2016-02] [link]
Paper
Lgr6+ progenitor cells in skin
Our paper on the dynamics of Lgr6+ progenitor cells in skin is out in Stem Cell Reports. Congratulations to Anja and all co-authors! Thanks to Ben Simons, Hans Clevers and Rune Toftgård for a great collaboration.[2015-11] [link]
People
The Lab is growing...
Now we are 2 Postdocs, 3 PhD students, 1 master student, our lab manager Sasha and Maria.[2015-04]