Mittag Lab Team

After receiving her PhD from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Dr. Tanja Mittag trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Julie Forman-Kay at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto where she revealed how a highly dynamic complex with several interconverting interfaces can encode a cell cycle switch. She joined the Department of Structural Biology at St. Jude in 2010 and has focused her work on elucidating the role of liquid-liquid phase separation for functional compartmentalization in cells. She is the recipient of the prestigious Michael and Kate Bárány Award from the Biophysical Society for her “rigorous and foundational contributions to the field of macromolecular condensates and their biological relevance,” and was elected a 2025 Fellow of the Biophysical Society.