Welcome Tuba!
Tuba Balta joins the lab for a 2-month summer internship. Tuba is a Neuroscience major from the University of Chicago.
Congratulations Elsa!
Elsa’s paper from her Masters is on Biorxiv. In it, they study the evolution of conserved non-coding elements in teleosts. Congratulations!
New publication
Marques et al describe the very first steps of neuronal maturation in the Drosophila central brain. They show that while terminal differentiation genes, such as ChAT, VGlut, and Gad1, are transcribed very early, their translation is delayed and coordinated by the developmental stage of the animal. Link
Welcome Wiam!
Wiam Gabel joins the lab as an M1 student from the Masters Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire at the Université Paris Cité. Wiam did his undergraduate studies in Biology at the University of Creteil.
Welcome Laïla!
Laïla Aboutine joins the lab as an M1 student from the Masters Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire at the Université Paris Cité. Laïla did her L3 in Biology at the Université Paris- Est Créteil.
Overdue Rebekah’s doctoral fellowship celebration
We celebrated Rebekah’s doctoral fellowship in an Escape Room where we managed to find the treasure on behalf of the Assassins’ brotherhood in the apartment of one of Cardinal Lemoine’s descendants in 57:21
Welcome Nouhayla!
Nouhayla Er-raysy joins the lab as an M2 from the Masters in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at the Université Paris Saclay. Nouhayla did her undergraduate studies in Biology at the Université Mohammed Premier in Oujda, Morocco.
Helena’s internship finishes
Helena is officially the lab’s first alumnus as her summer internship finished today. See you soon Helena!
Rebekah awarded doctoral fellowship
Rebekah is awarded a BioSPC doctoral fellowship to pursue her PhD in our lab working on the development and evolution of temporal patterning in the fly visual system. Congratulations Rebekah!
Lab wins third position in IJM day photo contest
Lab outing with the Courtier lab
We visited the Musée des arts et métiers and then had pizzas altogether.
Course des Héros
Rebekah and Nikos represented the lab in today’s Course des Héros in support of the Fondation de Recherche Médicale