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:
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: Computational biology
Thesis defended on September 25, 2025, ED: Life Sciences – Structural Biochemistry
Guillaume ROBERT
Title of the thesis: Understanding the functional contribution of C-LTMRs in pain modulation.
Thesis supervisors: Aziz Moqrich, Ana Reynders
Team: Chronic Pain : Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms
Thesis defended on September 26, 2025, ED: Life Sciences – Neurosciences
Maria CACCAVALE
Title of the thesis: Role of microRNAs in tumor progression in a new mouse model of glioblastoma.
Thesis supervisor: Nathalie Core
Team: Molecular control of neurogenesis
Thesis defended on October 3, 2025, ED: Life Sciences – Developmental Biology
Alice GROS
Title of the thesis: 3D quantitative analysis of gastruloid development at the cellular scale.
Thesis supervisors: Pierre-François Lenne, Sham Tlili
Team: Physical approaches to cell dynamics and tissue morphogenesis
Thesis defended on October 7, 2025, ED: Life Sciences – Developmental Biology
Marc-Eric PERRIN
Title of the thesis: Neuronal dendritic morphogenesis as self-interacting dynamical trees.
Thesis supervisors: Thomas Lecuit, Jean-François Rupprecht
Team: Organisation and Dynamics of Biological Forms
Thesis defended on December 15, 2025, ED: Life Sciences – Developmental Biology
Aditya ANIRUDDHA SANE
Title of the thesis: Revealing the ultra-structure of the sarcomere using DNA-PAINT super-resolution.
Thesis supervisors: Frank Schnorrer, Pierre Mangeol
Team: Muscle Dynamics
Thesis defended on December 16, 2025, ED: Life Sciences – Developmental Biology
Devam PUROHIT
Title of the thesis: Modulation and quantification of Drosophila muscle mechanics
Thesis supervisors: Frank Schnorrer, Felix Rico
Team: Muscle Dynamics
Thesis defended on December 17, 2025, ED: Life Sciences – Developmental Biology
Marvin LERIA
Title of the thesis: Organisation and coordination of basal body polarity during locomotion in Trichoplax
Thesis supervisors: Andrea Pasini, Raphael Clement
Team: Evolution and Morphogenesis of Epithelia
Thesis defended on December 18, 2025, ED: Life Sciences – Developmental Biology
Karen SLEIMAN
Title of the thesis: The impact of matrix stiffness on cancer innervation
Thesis supervisors: Fanny Mann, Anaïs Bellon
Team: Neural plasticity in cancer development
Thesis defended on December 19, 2025, ED: Life Sciences – Neurosciences
