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Congratulations to our talented young doctors!

22 motivated and talented students successfully defended their thesis between September 2023 and December 2024.
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IBDM welcomes motivated and talented students every year and offers them the opportunity to do thesis work in a dynamic and interdisciplinary environment. We support students to conduct independent research and to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in biology.

A look back at the latest students who have been promoted to doctor:

Sanjay KARKI
Title of the thesis: Evolutionarily conserved mechanical function of serotonin signaling during morphogenesis
Thesis supervisor: Thomas Lecuit

Team Lecuit: Organisation and Dynamics of Biological Forms

Thesis defended on September 19, 2023

Thomas LEGIER
Title of the thesis: Investigating cross-talk between cell signalling and tissue organisation during pluripotent stem cell lineage commitment
Thesis supervisor: Rosanna Dono

Team Fasano: Transcriptional regulatory networks in development and diseases

Thesis defended on October 27, 2023

Florent FIORITI
Title of the thesis: Peptidoglycan : a key elicitor of the gut- brain axis
Thesis supervisor: Julien Royet

Team Royet: Host Pathogen interaction in the Drosophila model

Thesis defended on November 3, 2023

Jérôme AVELLANEDA
Title of the thesis: Investigating mechanisms of mitochondrial dynamics during flight muscle development
Thesis supervisor: Frank Schnorrer & Nuno Luis

Team Schnorrer: Muscle dynamics

Thesis defended on November 13, 2023

Athullya BABY
Title of the thesis: Experiments and simulations to understand cilia-driven flows and their protective role in Xenopus embryos
Thesis supervisor: Annie Viallat (CINAM) & Laurent Kodjabachian

Team Kodjabachian: Biology of ciliated epithelia

Thesis defended on November 13, 2023

Clément RODIER
Title of the thesis: Sarcomeres divide by segregating their myosin filaments during muscle growth
Thesis supervisor: Frank Schnorrer

Team Schnorrer: Muscle dynamics

Thesis defended on November 27, 2023

Lucie BOULGAKOFF
Title of the thesis: Investigating the potential of trabeculae to repair working and conductive myocardium during cardiac regeneration in neonatal mice
Thesis supervisor: Lucile Miquerol

Team Kelly: Genetic control of heart development

Thesis defended on December 1, 2023

Achyuth ACHARYA
Title of the thesis: Multiscale characterization of human muscle differentiation in vitro and the influence of mechanical stimuli
Thesis supervisor: Frank Schnorrer

Team Schnorrer: Muscle dynamics

Thesis defended on December 11, 2023

Gayatri MUNDHE
Title of the thesis: Biochemical and mechanical interplay during Drosophila endoderm morphogenesis
Thesis supervisor: Claudio Collinet & Thomas Lecuit

Team Lecuit: Organisation and Dynamics of Biological Forms

Thesis defended on December 18, 2023

Swedha SIDHARTHAN
Title of the thesis: Regulation of Rho1 by RhoGAPs during Drosophila Germ Band Extension
Thesis supervisor: Thomas Lecuit

Team Lecuit: Organisation and Dynamics of Biological Forms

Thesis defended on December 20, 2023

Martha Montserrat RANGEL SOSA
Title of the thesis: Pancreatic Schwann cell reprogramming supports sympathetic neuronal remodeling during chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
Thesis supervisor: Sophie Chauvet

Team Mann: Neural plasticity in cancer development

Thesis defended on March 7, 2024

Camille DUMAS
Title of the thesis: Investigating trapezius muscle development in the mouse embryo
Thesis supervisor: Robert Kelly

Team Kelly: Genetic control of heart development

Thesis defended on April 16, 2024

Juna COMO
Title of the thesis: Actin filament copolymerization in the presence of monomers bound to ATP and ADP
Thesis supervisor: Alphée Michelot

Team Michelot: Physical and Molecular Principles Governing Cytoskeletal Organization

Thesis defended on May 15, 2024

Hiba HAIDAR
Title of the thesis: Deciphering the Mechanisms of Nerve/Tumor Interaction : role of the axon guidance signaling Netrin-1/DCC
Thesis supervisor: Fanny Mann

Team Mann: Neural plasticity in cancer development

Thesis defended on May 23, 2024

SURBHI
Title of the thesis: In vivo investigation of microRNA expression at the mammalian Post synapse by AGO-APP
Thesis supervisor: Christophe Beclin

Team Cremer: Molecular control of neurogenesis

Thesis defended on June 28, 2024

Matis SOLEIHAC
Title of the thesis: Cell Mechanics Contribution to the Crypt-Villus-Axis Development and Maintenance
Thesis supervisor: Delphine Delacour

Team Delacour: Epithelial monolayer morphogenesis

Thesis defended on September 24, 2024

Clara GUIJARRO
Title of the thesis: Morphometric analysis of a cardiac progenitor cell epithelium
Thesis supervisor: Robert Kelly & Paul Villoutreix

Team Kelly: Genetic control of heart development

Thesis defended on October 7, 2024

Khulganaa BUYANNEMEKH
Title of the thesis:Lateralization of axonal growth in the embryonic nervous system: characterizing novel molecular left-right asymmetries in C. elegans
Thesis supervisor: Vincent Bertrand

Team Bertrand: Polarization and binary cell fate decisions in the nervous system

Thesis defended on October 11, 2024

Margaux HAERING
Title of the thesis: Understanding cell types specific contribution to cerebellar ataxias through deep mining of single cell RNA-seq data using mitoXplorer and ataxiaXplorer platforms
Thesis supervisor: Bianca Habermann

Team Habermann: Computational biology

Thesis defended on October 29, 2024

Gabriela  POLIACIKOVA
Title of the thesis: The transcriptional regulation of Drosophila adult flight muscle development
Thesis supervisor: Andy Saurin

Team Saurin-Graba: Mechanisms of gene regulation by transcription factors

Thesis defended on December 6, 2024

Aude CHARRON
Title of the thesis: Deciphering the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the pain-relieving effect of TAFA4
Thesis supervisor: Francis Castets & Aziz Moqrich

Team Moqrich: Chronic Pain: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms

Thesis defended on December 12, 2024

Katia BARRETT
Title of the thesis: Epithelial-mesenchymal boundary organises morphogenesis in Xenopus explants
Thesis supervisor: Pierre-François Lenne & Matthias Merkel

Team Lenne: Physical approaches to cell dynamics and tissue morphogenesis

Thesis defended on December 16, 2024

 

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