Marko Kaksonen PhD

Marko Kaksonen is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Geneva. His lab studies the molecular mechanisms of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. The lab develops and uses light and electron microscopy methods for quantitative visualization of cellular trafficking processes.

Marko Kaksonen has always been interested in the natural world and in science, from childhood explorations of the forest paths near his home to adult explorations of the natural labyrinth that is cell biology. But, he says, it took him a while to find the subject he was most passionate about—and to select the path his career would ultimately follow.