Group members

Adem Bilican - PhD Student

Adem obtained his Masters degree in Bio-Informatics in 2009 at University Bordeaux 1 - France. He did a 6 months internship at BiGCaT Bioinformatics (Maastricht University - The Netherlands) where he worked on a pathway curation tool "PathVisio" and then he was employed for one and a half year at the same group as a scientific developer and worked on a web-based multi-omics platform project "Generic Study Capture Framework". He joined the group as a PhD student in January 2011.

Francesco Carelli - PhD Student

Francesco obtained his Master's degree in Medical
Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine at the University of
Bari (Italy) in 2010. For his thesis, he did a 1-year
internship in the group of Prof. Mario Ventura, working on
the structural and functional characterization of a primate
gene family. He joined the group as a PhD student in
September 2011.

Diego Cortez Quezada - Postdoctoral Fellow

Diego obtained his Master degree in Biology at the university of Mexico (UNAM) working with Arturo Becerra and Antonio Lazcano on the evolution of metabolic pathways in bacteria. Then, in 2005, he moved to France to start his PhD working with archaea in the BMGE lab at the Institut Pasteur and the Université Paris-Sud XI, campus Orsay. He worked with Patrick Forterre, Simonetta Gribaldo and Marie-Claude Serre to develop two projects: The first one focused on the evolution of integrative elements in archaeal genomes, and the second project established the presence of a Xer/dif system in archaea, using Pyrococcus abyssi as a model. Diego joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow in April 2010.

Annick Crevoisier - Administrative assistant

Annick has been our administrative assistant since 2004.

Iris Finci - PhD Student

Iris Finci obtained her Master's degree in Molecular biology from the International Max Planck Research School at the University of Göttingen (Germany) in 2010. Afterwards, she did a 6 months internship in the group of Dr. Khaitovich at the PICB (Shanghai, China) working on the establishment of a protocol for polysome isolation. She joined the group as a PhD student in August 2011.

Laure Froidevaux - Technician

Laure obtained her diploma as a lab technician (BTS) in 2001. She then worked 4 years in the cell culture service at IGBMC in Strasbourg, 6 months at the UBC Vancouver in the Ted Steiner lab, and 4 years in the HTS facility at the IGBMC in Strasbourg. Laure joined the lab in October 2011.

Katerina Guschanski - Postdoctoral Fellow

Katja obtained her PhD in 2009 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology working in the group of Linda Vigilant on population genetics of wild mountain gorillas. She then worked as a postdoc at the Imperial College London looking at the factors affecting speciation in a group of African primates, the guenons. Katja joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow in December 2010.

Philippe Julien - PhD Student

Philippe first studied life sciences at the University of Bordeaux. He then obtained a bioinformatics Masters degree from the same university in september 2007 after a final traineeship in Peer Bork's group in EMBL (Heidelberg, Germany), where he worked on the eggNOG and STRING databases. He started his PhD in the lab in November 2007.

Angélica Liechti - Technician

Angélica obtained her Masters degree in Medical Biology in Stephan Kellenberger’s lab at the University of Lausanne in 2009. During her Master thesis she worked on the proton binding site in acid-sensing ion channel 1a (ASIC1a). She joined the lab as lab technician at the end 2009.

Julien Meunier - Postdoctoral Fellow

Julien obtained his Master degree in Evolution and Biodiversity at the university of Paris VI (France) in 2002. He then did his PhD in the LBBE lab (University Lyon 1, France) under the supervision of Laurent Duret, working on substitution rate variability along the primate genomes. Julien joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow in January 2010.

Anamaria Necsulea – Postdoctoral Fellow

Anamaria obtained her engineering diploma in Bioinformatics and Mathematical Modelling from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA, Lyon, France), in 2005. She then did her PhD at the Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive in Lyon, where she studied the impact of DNA replication on genome composition and organization, under the supervision of Jean R. Lobry. She then continued as a post-doc in Laurent Duret’s group, where she studied the effect of biased gene conversion on the dynamics of deleterious mutations in the human genome. Anamaria joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow in April 2009. Anamaria was awarded a FEBS longterm postdoctoral fellowship in June 2009.

Magali Soumillon - PhD Student

Magali obtained her Engineering diploma in Biotechnology in 2007 from the Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs de Luminy (Marseille, France). During her diploma thesis at 454 Life Sciences - Roche (Branford, USA), she worked on automation of a part of the 454 High Throughput Sequencing technology. She joined the group for her PhD research in January 2008.

Maria Warnefors - Postdoctoral fellow

Maria received her MSc degree in Molecular Biology from Lund University in 2007, after spending her final year working on the regulatory evolution of a Drosophila Hox gene in the group of Claudio Alonso, University of Cambridge, UK. She then joined Adam Eyre-Walker's group at the University of Sussex, UK, to do a PhD on the evolution of human gene expression. Maria joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow in April 2011.

Manuela Weier - Technician

Manuela obtained her diploma from the Technician School of the Canton Vaud in 2004. She then worked for two years in the service lab of François Pralong at the University Hospital of Lausanne before joining the lab in the beginning of 2006.