New member

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!

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 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!

Halima Schede joins the lab for a Masters project. She is enrolled in the Bioengineering program and has studied in biology and mathematics at McGill. With her passion for machine learning and neural networks and her knowledge of anatomy and genetics she will turn a bunch of omics data in useful insights of the molecular anatomy of the brain. Welcome Halima!

Anurag Ranjak joins the lab for a Masters project. Anurag is a Chemical Engineer with industry experience in software engineering. He will adventure in spatial transcriptpomics and image reconstruction.He recently “converted” to biology and enrolled in EPFL Masters in Life Sciences. Welcome Anurag!