The IBDM welcomes motivated and talented students each year, offering them the opportunity to carry out their thesis work in a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment. We encourage students to develop independent research projects and actively contribute to advancing knowledge in biology.
A look back at the latest students who have been promoted to doctor:
Elena Brunet
Title of the thesis: Unravelling the mechanisms underlying ultrasound stimulation of priimary sensory neurons.
Thesis supervisors: Aziz Moqrich, Emilie Franceschini
Team Moqrich: Chronic Pain: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms
Thesis defended on January 23, 2025, ED: Life and Health Sciences, Health Biology – Neuroscience Specialty
Juliette Vahdat
Title of the thesis: Investigating the structure-function relationship of Purkinje fibers in ventricular arrhythmias
Thesis supervisor Lucile Miquerol, Julien Fromonot
Team Kelly: Genetic control of heart development
Thesis defended on May 7, 2025, ED: Life and Health Sciences, Health Biology – Developmental Biology Specialty
Jules Vanaret
Title of the thesis: Exploring tissue patterning and stochastic cellular dynamics in photon-limited imaging of light-scattering organoids: combined deep learning and bayesian strategies
Thesis supervisor: Frédéric Richard, Philippe Roudot, Sham Tlili
Team Lenne: Physical approaches to cell dynamics and tissue morphogenesis
Thesis defended on May 12, 2025, ED: Mathematics and Computer Science – Computer Science Specialty
Ismahene Mesbah
Title of the thesis: Decoding protein structural folds, sequence and structural motifs for the mechanical stability of proteins
Thesis supervisors: Felix Rico, Bianca Habermann
Team Habermann: Computational biology
Thesis defended on September 25, 2025, ED: Life and Health Sciences, Health Biology – Structural Biochemistry Specialty
Guillaume Robert
Title of the thesis: Investigating the functional role of C-LTMRs in pain modulation
Thesis supervisors: Aziz Moqrich, Ana Reynders
Team Moqrich: Chronic Pain: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms
Thesis defended on September 26, 2025, ED: Life and Health Sciences, Health Biology – Neuroscience Specialty
