We released the first comprehensive lipidomic atlas of the adult mouse brain, mapping 172 membrane lipids and identifying 539 spatially coherent biochemical domains we call “lipizones”.
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Dr. Antonio Herrera has been awarded a Ramón y Cajal fellowship and will start as Group Leader at the University of Granada in 2026.
Irina Khven successfully defended her PhD thesis on fine-grained mapping of neural progenitor subtypes in the embryonic brain.
The lab continues to grow! Laura Lapeña Gil and Lada Polyakova join as PhD students, while Evangelia Skoufa joins as our new lab technician. Welcome to the team!
Halima Hannah Schede has successfully defended her PhD thesis! Congratulations to Halima on this excellent achievement.
Alex Lederer has successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations to Alex on this milestone achievement.
Three new PhD students join the lab! Xinyi Huang joins from the EDBB program to work on brain development, Morgane Storey joins from EDNE as a joint student with Prof. Petersen’s lab, and Alireza Gargoorimothlag joins from EDNE to develop computational approaches for understanding brain development. Welcome to the team!
Luca Fusar Bassini has been awarded the prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) PhD Fellowship. This highly competitive fellowship (less than 10% acceptance rate) supports outstanding junior scientists pursuing ambitious PhD projects in basic biomedical research. Congratulations Luca!
Luca Fusar Bassini and Alessandro Valente join the lab for a PhD. Luca is a Biologist with a keen interest in developing computational methods to obtain unprecedented biological insight, Alessandro is Biotechnologist with experience in stem cell engineering in organoids. They are both going to work on the lipidome-transcriptome axis in neurulation. Welcome Luca and Alessandro!
Dimitri Lallement joins the lab for a Masters thesis project. He is enrolled in the Computer Science Engineering program, ENSIMAG at Grenoble and doing a exchange with EPFL. He has studied his Bachelor at the University of Bordeaux and studied as Data Scientist Junior at CNES. He wants to face challenging research problem and explore new methods that can help the interpretation of single-cell RNAseq datasets. Welcome Dimitri!
