Alumni

Deborah Widmer - Masters Student

Deborah obtained her Bachelor of Biology from the University of Neuchâtel. She came to Lausanne to do a Masters in Conservation Biology and worked in the lab during October-December 2008 for a "First Steps Project".

Michael Reid - Post-doctoral Fellow

Michael worked with Irving T. Diamond at Duke University and then Robin Davis at Rutgers University on sensory encoding before completing his PhD research, also on sensory encoding, in Manfred Kössl's group at the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt. Michael specialises in characterising the physiological properties of sensory neurons with patch-clamp electrophysiology. He worked in the lab during 2008-2009 on heterologous functional expression of Ionotropic Receptors.

Alexandre Wicky - Summer Student

Alexandre worked with Ana Silbering during summer 2009 between the first and second year of his Bachelors degree in Biology at the University of Lausanne.

Anna Lisa Mascitti, Linda Müller, Anna Volger and Laura Milani - Undergraduate Researchers

Anna Lisa, Linda, Anna and Laura pursued a group project in the lab as part of their 3rd year Experimental Design Course.

Cristina Leoni - Masters Student

Cristina obtained her Bachelors in Biology from the University of Lausanne in 2009. She started her Masters in Genomics and Experimental Biology in September 2009 and worked in the lab in autumn 2009 for a "First Steps Project".

Marion Graf - Technician

Marion worked in the lab during April-December 2009 for a "Stage" as part of her technician training.

Yael Grosjean - Post-doctoral Fellow

Yael performed his PhD research in the lab of Jean-Francois Ferveur, at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, studying the genetic control of courtship behaviour in Drosophila. Between 2004-2007 he worked with Dave Featherstone at the University of Illinois at Chicago, before joining the lab in October 2007. He took up a group leader position with the CNRS in Dijon in January 2010. Yael was awarded a CNRS Bronze Medal in 2012.

Ruichen Sun - Summer Undergraduate Research programme student

Ruichen is currently studying biomedical engineering at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. She was in the lab in July-August 2010 as part of the University of Lausanne Summer Undergraduate Research programme, during which she worked with Vincent Croset. Back in her college in China, Ruichen is doing biochemical research relating to platelet activation in Professor Kesheng Dai's lab. She returned to the lab as a visiting student during Feb-Mar 2011 to work with Raphael Rytz. She is currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Biological Sciences at UCSD.

Jeanne De Lavallaz - Summer student

Jeanne obtained her Maturity in Burier High school in July 2010. She took part in a four-week lab research in the Weizmann Institute in Israel in July 2009 and worked occasionally during 2009-2010 in Christian Fankhauser's lab at the CIG. Before going to study medicine at the University of Fribourg, Jeanne worked in the lab with Michael Saina for six weeks in July-August 2010.

Jérôme Blanc - Technician

Jérôme worked in the lab from September 2010-June 2011 for a "stage" as part of his technician training course.

Jovana Plavsa - Summer Undergraduate Research programme student

Jovana worked the lab during July-August 2011 as part of the UNIL SUR programme, working with Anand Sivasubramaniam. She is currently studying at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Jan Armida - Masters Student

Jan obtained his Bachelors in Biology from the University of Lausanne in 2011. He worked in the lab during Oct-Dec 2011 for his First Steps project as part of his Masters in Medical Biology, under the supervision of Carol Gomez-Diaz.

Romain Groux - Undergraduate Technical Assistant

Romain is currently in the second year of his Bachelors in Biology at the University of Lausanne, and provided ad hoc technical assistance in the lab during 2011-2012.

Yueying Wang - Summer Undergraduate Research programme student

Yueying is a student from Shaanxi Normal University in China, majoring in Biology. In Nov 2010, her team discovered the symmetry of insect herbivory patterns on Trifolium repens L. leaves. Since August 2011, she has been working as a research assistant in the Gene Therapy Laboratory of Shaanxi Normal University. She worked with Ana Silbering during July-August 2012 as part of the University of Lausanne Summer Undergraduate Research programme.

Flavio Angei - Masters Student

Flavio obtained his Bachelors in Biology from the University of Lausanne in 2011. He worked in the lab from February 2012 to Jan 2013 for his research project as part of his Masters in Medical Biology, working with Carol Gomez-Diaz. He is currently applying for PhD studies.