More than 130 PhD students are currently enrolled at the Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School, conducting their research at three different universities, i.e. Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg.
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Current PhD Students
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| Name and Email | Project | Thesis Director |
| Abatis, Marios (UNIL) | Electrophysiological correlates of memory and fear processing in the lateral amygdala | Ron Stoop |
| Archargui, Ridouane (UNIGE) | Cellular diversity of the subthalamic nucleus in mice | Christian Lüscher |
| Ackermann, Sandie (UNIL) | Interventions on working memory in adolescents with ADHD: neuropsychological and brain imaging dimensions | Michel Bader (co-supervised by E. Fornari) |
| Aícua Rapún, Irene (UNIL) | Therapeutic drug monitoring of new generation antiepileptic drugs: concrete benefit, correlation with clinical effects and usefulness of saliva samples | Jan Novy (co-supervised by A. Rossetti) |
| Allaman, Leslie (UNIGE) | Neural resting-state interactions and off-line processing | Adrian Guggisberg |
| Antico, Lia (UNIGE) | Cross-modal and modality-specific networks for understanding others and their somatic states | Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua |
| Antypa, Despina (UNIGE) | Emotion & Stress Effects to Memory | Patrik Vuilleumier |
| Armida, Jan (UNIL) | Axon guidance in the D. melanogaster olfactory system | Richard Benton |
| Baez, Sebastian (UNIGE) | Exploring the neural network of social emotions and its modulation in the ageing brain | Patrik Vuilleumier |
| Bagnoud, Jeanne (UNIL) | Automatization of counting procedures in children with dyscalculia | Catherine Thevenot |
| Barbosa, Catia (UNIL) | Temporal structure in auditory perception: auditory-motor interaction | Stephanie Clarke |
| Barra, Beatrice (UNIFR) | Design and implementation of epidural electrical stimulation protocols of the cervical spinal cord for the restoration of arm paralysis in non-human primates | Marco Capogrosso |
| Batzianouli, Eleni (UNIL) | The transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the enhancement of the efficacy of rehabilitative intervention for the treatment of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s disease | David Benninger |
| Baumann, Natalia (UNIGE) | Transcriptional program of neocortical neuron differentiation | Denis Jabaudon |
| Baumeler, Denise (UNIGE) | Mislocalisations in the absence of eye movements – compression vs. repulsion | Sabine Born |
| Beck, Jonas (UNIFR) | Deepening sleep by reactivation of hypnotic suggestions | Björn Rasch |
| Belles Ano, Lidia (UNIGE) | Investigating the neurobiological basis of impulsivity and decision-making and their relationships with drug-seeking in rats | Nathalie Ginovart |
| Bernini, Adriano (UNIL) | Modulation of cerebral metabolism after brain injury in humans | Mauro Oddo |
| Bertoni, Tommaso (UNIL) | Neural network models of multisensory integration in the peri-personal space, and their application to self-consciousness | Andrea Serino |
| Bindocci, Erika (UNIL) | Development of new imaging methodologies to study neuron-glia interaction | Andrea Volterra |
| Blake, Yvonne (UNIL) | Loss of Amygdala Inhibition as an Underlying Cause for Hyper-emotionality: A comparative analysis between patients with Alzheimer's and Urbach Wiethe Disease | Ron Stoop |
| Blochet, Camille (UNIL) | The role of caveolin-1 in blood brain barrier repair in stroke and traumatic brain injury: towards a general protective strategy for the neurovascular unit | Lorenz Hirt |
| Bolmont, Mylène (UNIGE) | Neurobiological approach of sexual desire | Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli |
| Bonardi, Claudia (UNIGE) | Cholinergic modulation of the motor cortex during goal-directed reaching movement | Daniel Huber |
| Borgognon, Simon (UNIFR) | Electro-chemical neuroprosthesis to promote functional recovery in macaque monkeys after incomplete spinal cord injury | Eric Rouiller |
| Bourgeaux, Kevin (UNIL) | Exploring neurovascular-neurometabolic couplings in the rodent cortex with incoherent optical techniques | Pierre Marquet |
| Bouthour, Walid (UNIGE) | Identification of electrophysiological biomarkers for PD and OCD in the STN | Christian Lüscher |
| Buchard, Albert (UNIGE) | What role do statistical learning mechanisms play in developmental dyslexia? A behavioral, computational and EEG approach | Daphne Bavelier |
| Cantonas, Lucia (UNIGE) | Alteration of event related potentials and event related spectral perturbation in schizophrenia and ADHD | Christoph Michel |
| Carboni, Margherita (UNIGE) | Directed Brain Functional Connectivity alterations in patients with extra-temporal lobe epilepsy | Serge Vulliémoz |
| Cardis, Romain (UNIL) | Sleep structure and stability in mouse models of chronic pain | Anita Lüthi |
| Carlson, Heather (UNIGE) | The Effects of Scents on Neural Networks | Patrik Vuilleumier |
| Ciobanu, Alina (UNIGE) | The effects of action video-games on the processing of attended and unattended emotional stimuli | Daphne Bavelier |
| Combertaldi, Selina (UNIFR) | Pre-sleep activation: Does activation of embodied sleep/wake memories before sleep affect subsequent sleep architecture and cognitive functioning? | Björn Rasch |
| Conrad, Mireille (UNIGE) | Energetic efficiency of information transfer at synapses | Renaud Jolivet |
| Constanthin, Paul (UNIGE) | Role of erythropoietin signaling in the development and lesion induced plasticity of the mammalian cerebral cortex | Jozsef Kiss |
| Contestabile, Alessandro (UNIGE) | The impact of sensory processing on social motivation in ASD animal models | Camilla Bellone |
| Corre, Julie (UNIGE) | Neuropsychiatry of addiction | Christian Lüscher |
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| Name and Email | Project | Thesis Director |
| De Araujo Salgado, Isabel (UNIFR) | Cortical circuits integrating bodily resources and the production of behavior | Christophe Lamy |
| De Castro Abrantes, Haissa (UNIL) | Lactate as a metabolic substrate and modulator of network: evaluating the role of receptor-mediated mechanisms in the context of physiological and pathological neuronal excitability | Jean-Yves Chatton |
| Debracque, Coralie (UNIGE) | Evolutionary approach to emotion using affective prosody and functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy | Grandjean, Didier |
| Denervaud, Solange (UNIGE) | Study of the impact of learning environment on the cognitive-emotional competencies development children from 5 to 13 years old, with an emphasis on the Montessori method | Edouard Gentaz |
| Dimiziani, Andrea (UNIGE) | The role of impulsivity and anxiety sensitivity as predisposing factors to cocaine and cannabinoid abuse: investigating the predictive value of D2 and GABAA-benzodiazepine receptor densities using SPECT neuroimaging | Nathalie Ginovart |
| Dirupo, Giada (UNIGE) | Cognitive and neural systems for understanding others and their somatic states | Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua |
| Dubourg, Lydia (UNIGE) | The reward system and negative symptoms in the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: behavioral outputs and brain substrates | Stephan Eliez |
| Espinosa, Pedro (UNIGE) | How GABAergic transmission could influence ventral tegmental area neuronal activity during postnatal development and their consequences in reward process | Camilla Bellone |
| Falahi, Mohsen (UNIGE) | Golf Theory: a geometrical modeling approach to decision processes | Kerstin Preuschoff |
| Faulmann, Igor (UNIGE) | Cognitive-spatial maps in healthy and clinical populations | Roland Maurer |
| Fernandez, Aurore (UNIL) | Investigating stress, emotional and sensory profiles in patients with neuropathic pain | Marc Suter |
| Filippova, Aleksandra (UNIGE) | Development of hydrogel-based transplantable scaffolds for reconstruction of nigrostriatal pathways within Parkinson’s disease. | Thomas Braschler |
| Fodoulian, Léon (UNIGE) | Genetic and neurophysiological dissection of the neuronal diversity found in the endopiriform/claustrum complex | Ivan Rodriguez |
| Gastaldo, Denise (UNIL) | The role of Cyfip1-deficient microglia in ASD and SCZ pathogenesis | Claudia Bagni |
| Gaviria, Julian (UNIGE) | Neural correlates of emotion regulation - A dynamical-functional connectivity approach | Patrik Vuilleumier |
| Gercek, Berk (UNIGE) | Integrating the effect of constraints on neural development in theoretical models of the brain | Alexandre Pouget |
| Giangreco, Basilio (UNIL) | Modeling Schizophrenia with induced Pluripotent Stem Cells technology | Kim Do |
| Gomez Teijeiro, Lucia (UNIGE) | Investigating the role of the 5HT3A receptor in cortical interneuron subtype development | Alexandre Dayer |
| Gouelle, Cathy (UNIL) | Subcellular localization, translocation and trafficking of the neuronal monocarboxylate transporter MCT2: their implications on synaptic transmission | Luc Pellerin |
| Grisendi, Tiffany (UNIL) | Emotional sounds in space | Stephanie Clarke |
| Guex, Raphael (UNIGE) | Functional specialization of the human amygdala in emotional processing | Patrik Vuilleumier |
| Guiraud, Laetitia (UNIL) | Role of the CREB coactivator CRTC1 in mood disorders and antidepressant response | Jean-René Cardinaux |
| Gyger, Lucien (UNIL) | Effect of in vivo hippocampal neurogenesis on memory in humans | Bogdan Draganski |
| Habiby Alaoui, Selim (UNIGE) | Orbitofrontal cortex, reality filtering and decision making | Armin Schnider |
| Hadjas,Lotfi (UNIGE) | Neuronal mechanism of compulsion in obsessive-compulsive disorders and addiction | Linda Simmler & Christian Lüscher |
| Harada, Masaya (UNIGE) | Neural basis of addiction vulnerability | Christian Lüscher |
| Ho, Andy (UNIGE) | Functional Organization of Cortical Microcircuits in Gray Mouse Lemur | Daniel Huber |
| Hoekstra, Marieke (UNIL) | Unravelling the mechanisms underlying the link between clock genes and sleep homeostasis | Paul Franken |
| Hovsepyan, Sevada (UNIGE) | A computational role for cortical oscillations in speech predictive coding | Anne-Lise Giraud |
| Huber, Chieko (UNIGE) | Microendoscopic imaging of functional responses of endopiriform/claustrum neurons during behavior | Alan Carleton |
| Iannotti, Giannarita (UNIGE) | Deeper insight in epilepsy: associative functional brain areas and negative BOLD | Christoph Michel |
| Ischer, Matthieu (UNIGE) | Psychological and cerebral processes implicated in emotional attention for odors | David Sander |
| Jadhav, Kshitij (UNIL) | A preclinical test of efficacy of baclofen treatment in rats selected for their vulnerability to lose control over alcohol intake | Benjamin Boutrel |
| Jaquerod, Manon (UNIL) | Association of sleep patterns with risk and social preferences | Alessandro Villa |
| Joëssel, Augustin (UNIGE) | Understanding the placebo effect in perceptual learning : Dissociating the influence of treatment, motivation and expectation on training outcomes | Daphné Bavelier |
| Katsioudi, Georgia (UNIL) | Studying molecular mechanisms and physiological cues underlying rhythmic translation | David Gatfield |
| Kikuchi, Toko (UNIL) | Andrea Volterra | |
| Kircher, Noemie (UNIL) | Study of pupil light response as an indicator of retinal function | Corinne Kostic |
| Kiss-Bodolay, Daniel (UNIGE) | Investigating plasticity in the medial prefrontal cortex in a mouse model of anxiety | Anthony Holtmaat |
| Klaassen, Arndt-Lucas (UNIFR) | The role of the basal forebrain and neocortical regions in sleep dependent memory consolidation | Gregor Rainer |
| Kojovic, Nada (UNIGE) | Neurodevelopmental trajectories in preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) | Marie Schaer |
| Kompotis, Konstantinos (UNIL) | Rhythmic stimulation of the thalamocortical circuitry in mice and its effects on sleep homeostasis | Paul Franken |
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| Name and Email | Project | Thesis Director |
| Lavalley, Adrian (UNIGE) | Transcriptional control of axonogenesis in developing corticospinal neurons after spinal cord injury | Denis Jabaudon |
| Lee, Kok Sin (UNIGE) | Morphological characterization of paralemniscal synapses and synaptic plasticity in L1 | Anthony Holtmaat |
| Legendre, Guillaume (UNIGE) | How deep is your sleeping mind? Unravelling the extent of information processing during sleep | Sophie Schwartz |
| Leone, Roberta (UNIGE) | Functional dissection of neuronal classes and microcircuit dynamics of the endopiriform nucleus/claustrum | Alan Carleton |
| Limoni, Greta (UNIGE) | Investigating the role of the cation-chloride cotransporter KCC2 in developmental and adult synaptic plasticity | Laszlo Vutskits |
| Madsen, Sofia (UNIL) | The role of lipid droplets in neural stem cells | Marlen Knobloch |
| Mariano, Vittoria (UNIL) | Shared neuronal circuits and molecular mechanisms in autism and schizophrenia | Claudia Bagni |
| Marin Bosch, Blanca (UNIGE) | Effect of Physical Exercise on Memory | Sophie Schwartz |
| Martin, Sandra (UNIL) | Effect of gene dosage on cognitive and behavioral traits in individuals carrying a 16p11.2 rearrangement | Sebastien Jacquemont & Bogdan Draganski |
| Mergiya, Tadiwos (UNIL) | Recruitment of astrocytes in memory-associated circuit operations: in vitro and in vivo aspects | Andrea Volterra |
| Modenato, Claudia (UNIL) | Neuropsychological and neuroanatomical correlates of chromosome 1q.21.1 rearrangements | Bogdan Draganski |
| Mullier, Emeline (UNIL) | Quantitative characterization of the structural disconnection syndrome of schizophrenia as a function of disease progression | Patrik Hagmann |
| Mutel, Sophie (UNIGE) | Probing the function of the endopiriform/claustrum complex using optogenetic and chemogenetic tools | Alan Carleton |
| Nannoni, Stefania (UNIL) | Clinical, physiological and radiological predictors of collaterals, salvageable and saved tissue on multimodal CT in acute ischemic stroke | Patrik Michel |
| Nguyen, Anh (UNIGE) | New treatments for induction of motor plasticity after stroke | Adrian Guggisberg |
| Nguyen, Nam (UNIL) | Differentiation of several types of mental transformation of spatial information: Cognitive processes and neurobiological correlates | Catherine Brandner |
| Nicolle, Johanna (UNIGE) | Mécanismes d’intégration et de décodage de la parole : études en psychophysique chez le sujet sain, dyslexique et autiste | Anne-Lise Giraud |
| Notter, Michael (UNIL) | Development and Validation of Functional Retinal MRI (frMRI) | Micah Murray & Jean-Philippe Thiran |
| Nunes, Caroline (UNIL) | An integrated interdisciplinary approach to animal-free chemical and nanomaterial safety assessment | Luc Pellerin & Marie-Gabrielle Zurich |
| Nuño Perez, Alvaro (UNIL) | Input-specific segregation of synaptic determinants in the lateral habenula | Manuel Mameli |
| Oberst, Polina (UNIGE) | Genetic mechanisms underlying the development of cortical projection neurons | Denis Jabaudon |
| Osorio Forero, Alejandro (UNIL) | Neuronal mechanisms of the infraslow oscillation during non-rem sleep in mouse | Anita Lüthi |
| Padmasola, Guru (UNIGE) | Decreasing susceptibility of the epileptic networks by suppression of fast ripples in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy | Christoph Michel |
| Pagnotta, Mattia (UNIFR) | Dynamic reorganization of cortical interactions under changing task demands | Gijs Plomp |
| Pedrazzini, Elena (UNIGE) | Tracking Attentional Priority In The Human Brain: Studies Of Acquired Lesions | Armin Schnider |
| Peek, Lukas (UNIGE) | Strengthening residual unconscious processing with fMRI based neurofeedback to regulate visual awareness | Patrik Vuilleumier |
| Peng, Zhong (UNIL) | Structure and function study of ASIC sensitization by H2S | Stephan Kellenberger |
| Philippides, Antoine (UNIGE) | Structural correlates of neuroprosthetic control | Daniel Huber |
| Piguet, Olivia (UNIL) | Postnatal development and plasticity of the monkey entorhinal cortex | Pierre Lavenex |
| Pointet, Virginie (UNIGE) | Growing up in a caregiving environment affected by maternal post-traumatic stress : effects on brain electrophysiology and emotion perception in school-age children | Daniel Schechter |
| Possovre, Marie-Laure (UNIL) | Narcolepsie et Sommeil | Mehdi Tafti |
| Prévost-Solié, Clément (UNIGE) | Parsing social motivation in ASDs using freely-moving mice | Camilla Bellone |
| Prionisti, Ioanna (UNIGE) | New approaches and delivery methods for the treatment of glioblastoma through brachytherapy | Renaud Jolivet & Leo Bühler |
| Qiao, Emilie (UNIGE) | The influence of positive emotions on mental processing | Patrik Vuilleumier |
| Rey, Elodie (UNIGE) | Mapping of functional synaptic connections in higher-order thalamocortical feedback circuits | Anthony Holtmaat |
| Rothenfusser, Kaspar (UNIL) | Développement d’une technique de tomographie holographique pour l’exploration de la dynamique tridimensionnelle des cellules neurales à l’échelle nanométrique : perspectives pour l’identification de biomarqueurs cellulaires des troubles psychiques | Pierre Marquet |
| Ruef, Anne (UNIL) | Analyzing common and differential structural networks disruption in psychiatry | Bogdan Draganski |
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| Name and Email | Project | Thesis Director |
| Sa de Almeida, Joana (UNIGE) | Building the path to resilience in preterm infants: a neuroimaging investigation of the brain structural effects of an environmental intervention (music) in preterm infants | Petra Hüppi |
| Sanabria Diaz, Gretel (UNIL) | Tracking pathophysiological process in Alzheimer’s disease through structural and functional brain topological patterns | Ferath Kherif |
| Sandini, Corrado (UNIGE) | Multimodal Longitudinal Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Connectivity Alterations Relevant to the Emergence of Psychosis in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome | Stephan Eliez |
| Schaerlaeken, Simon (UNIGE) | Impact of gesture and conceptual metaphor dynamics on the production and perception of musical emotions | Didier Grandjean |
| Simonet, Marie (UNIL) | Electrocortical dynamics of activation/inhibition processes involved in motor control/observation in patients with spinal cord injury | Jérôme Barral |
| Skupienski, Radek (UNIL) | Redox dysregulation in schizophrenia: development of novel peptide-based drugs | Kim Do |
| Slater, David (UNIL) | Tissue microstructure quantification in medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging with histological validation | Bogdan Draganski |
| Spring, Jerome (UNIL) | Electro-cortical oscillations as neurophysiological marker of fatigue induced by physical exercise | Jérôme Barral |
| Stephan, Aurélie (UNIL) | Caracterization of Focal Dystonia in the Complex Regional Pain Syndrome | David Benninger |
| Suarez Ramirez, Paola (UNIL) | Early biomarkers in children at risk for ASD | Nadia Chabane & Micah Murray |
| Tautvydaite, Domilè (UNIGE) | Reality Filtering and Encoding in Human Memory | Armin Schnider |
| Thoeni, Sarah (UNIGE) | Investigation of synaptic alterations in a mouse model of anorexia | Christian Lüscher |
| Tissieres, Isabel (UNIL) | Modulation of auditory space representation | Stephanie Clarke |
| Tivadar, Ruxandra (UNIL) | Multisensory Approaches to Restore Visual Function | Micah Murray |
| Tomasello, Ugo (UNIGE) | Role of microRNA 137 in cortical circuit formation | Alexandre Dayer |
| Triana Del Rio, Rodrigo (UNIL) | Oxytocin as a key factor in the behavioral and psychological symptoms of Alzheimer's disease | Ron Stoop |
| Tsartsalis, Stergios (UNIGE) | Studying the neurochemical determinants of antipsychotic efficacy and side effect profile: a translational dopamine d2 and serotonin 2a receptor neuroimaging approach | Philippe Millet |
| Turoman, Nora (UNIL) | Early multisensory attention as a foundation for learning in multicultural Switzerland | Micah Murray (supervised by P. Matusz)
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| Udry, Florian (UNIL) | Modelling retinal diseases using mouse and human pluripotent stem cells | Yvan Arsenijevic |
| Vachey, Gabriel (UNIL) | Genome editing for Huntington’s disease | Nicole Déglon |
| Van Poppel, Eva (UNIFR) | Oscillatory mechanisms of memory retention and reactivation during sleep | Björn Rasch |
| Vantomme, Gil (UNIL) | Functional characterization of cortical and subcortical afferents to the thalamic reticular nucleus | Anita Lüthi |
| Viale, Beatrice (UNIGE) | Role of WNT signaling in the development of mammalian cerebral cortex | Petra Hüppi |
| Wang, Xiaoyue (UNIGE) | Dynamic mapping of acoustic signals to distinct phoneme in ASD: From speech coding to meaning access | Anne-Lise Giraud |
| Wellbourne-Wood, Joel (UNIL) | Investigations into the role of astrocytes in the dynamic regulation of potassium homeostasis during physiological and epileptiform neuronal activity | Jean-Yves Chatton |
| Wicht, Corentin (UNIL) | Deception and the Placebo effect | Christine Mohr |
| Yanguez Escalera, Marc (UNIGE) | Physical activity and children’s executive functions: can motivation moderate or mediate this relationship? | Julien Chanal |
| Yuzgec, Ozge (UNIGE) | From single cells to networks: offline skill learning in the motor cortex | Daniel Huber |
| Zabiegalov, Oleksandr (UNIL) | Derivation of retinal organoids with correct number and structure of Müller glia generated from human and mouse pluripotent cells | Yvan Arsenijevic |
| Zehnder, Tamara (UNIL) | Role of Astrocytes in 22q11 deletion syndrome | Paola Bezzi |
| Zeugin, David (UNIL) | The neural basis of visuo-motor control | Silvio Ionta |
| Zewdie, Seblewongel (UNIGE) | The Genetics and Epigenetics of Impulsivity Related Phenotypes | Alexandre Dayer |
| Zimmermann, Robert (UNIGE) | Spatial representation in primate brain | Daniel Huber |
