Ali Hallaj
President
Ali is a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Biomedical Sciences. His Ph.D. project involves finding new molecules and methods that allow cell-penetrating peptides to escape endosomes.
Marta Vilademunt
Secretary / Social Media Manager
I am a third-year PhD student at the Toni Lab in the Center for Psychiatric Neurosciences (CHUV-UNIL). I am a neuroscientist interested in the role of microglia-astrocyte crosstalk in regulating adult hippocampal neurogenesis.
Sarah Hornfeck
Secretary / Moderator
Sarah is a second-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Biomedical Sciences. Her Ph.D. project investigates different proteins in the endocytic pathway of cell-penetrating peptides.
Evgeniya Trofimenko
Treasurer
Evgeniya is a Postdoc in the Department of Biomedical Sciences-UNIL.
Her research is focused on deciphering the cellular membrane trafficking of small peptide vectors.
Philipp Walch
Moderator
Philipp is a Postdoc in the Department of Immunobiology DIB-UNIL. His research centers around host-pathogen interactions, specifically the impact of enteric bacterial-viral co-infections on the host innate immune response.
Irmak Cabas
Moderator
Irmak is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, CHUV. She is working on the molecular mechanisms of depression using mouse as a model organism.
Prajwal Padmanabha
Webmaster
Prajwal is a postdoc at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology. His research focusses on combining statistical physics and mathematical models to understand and predict bacterial community dynamics
Esther Landaluce
Social Media Manager
Esther is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the López-Mejía group at the Centre for Integrative Genomics-UNIL. Her research focuses on studying the process of splicing in the context of obesity and insulin resistance
Abdur Rashid
Active Member
Daniel Rodriguez Rozo
Active Member
Daniel is a third year PhD student at the Institute of Microbiology. His research focuses on characterizing the mechanisms underlying the persistence of Chlamydia trachomatis.
Francisco Tomas Ribeiro
Active Member
Joanna Wojcik
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Junlian Luo
Active Member
Kevin Dzi
Active Member
Kevin, a third-year Ph.D. student at IHM, UNIL-CHUV, is enrolled in FBM’s innovative PhD program. His research centers on healthcare equity, the well-being of healthcare professionals, and bioethics.
Lucius Muthert
Active Member
Marion Prieler
Active Member
Margot Renard
Active Member
Margot is a third year Ph.D. student at the Endocrinology Service of CHUV. She studies the transcriptomic dynamics of the neuroendocrine system controling mammalian reproduction in mouse model
Nadia Elshareif
Active Member
Nadia is a 2nd year PhD candidate in the Mansuy-Aubert lab in the Department of Biomedical Sciences here at UNIL. She is studying the role of the maternal gut microbiome in offspring neuronal development and metabolic function.
Tiberiu Nita
Active member
Natascha Roser
Active member
Natascha is a first year Ph.D. student working in the R&D lab of the red cross. Her Ph.D. project is about analysing the phosphoproteomics of erythrocytes.