Ali Hallaj
Co-President
Ali is a fourth-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.
Fatima Lissane-Eddine
Co-President
Nadia Elshareif
Secretary
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.
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.
Kadri Maal
Moderator
Kadri is a 1st year PhD candidate in prof. Reymond’s group in the Centre for Integrative Genomics. She is researching rare human genomic variants and their associations with disease.
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
Philipp Walch
Active member
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.
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.
Irmak Çabas
Active member
Irmak completed her PhD studies in the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience (CNP), CHUV and she is currently working as a post-doc in the same department. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of depression using mouse as a model organism.