PEOPLE
GABRIELLE DOLISIE
PhD student, Aix Marseille Univ
PAST MEMBERS
MELISSA BOUANOU
Master student (2023)
Melissa tested our first photoinducible RAIL prototype in live mice in collaboration with Elodie Fino at INMED
MARINE DOS SANTOS
Master student (2023)
Marine contributed to the functional characterization of a new microfluidics chip developed in the lab
BASMAH BAWAZEER
Master student (2023)
Basmah set up Quantitative Phase Microscopy in microfluidic chips in collaboration with Guillaume Baffou from Institut Fresnel
KENZA CHERIET
Master student (2021)
Kenza cloned and characterised new RAIL constructs
KIM MORMENTYN
Master student (2021)
Kim characterised the structural organisation of reconstructed corticostriatal networks on a new microfluidics chip
EVE MOUTAUX
PhD student (2016-2020)
Eve combined microfluidic devices and high-resolution spinning-disk videomicroscopy to investigate how intracellular dynamics translate neuronal activity into axon remodeling.
RACHEL KURIAN
Assistant engineer (2018-2020)
Rachel investigated how BDNF, the most abundant neurotrophic factor of the adult brain, shapes neuronal networks after early life stress.
JULIE ANNE RODIER
PhD student (2015-2018)
Julie Anne studied how BDNF post-translational modifications regulate individual susceptibility to stress and depression. Julie Anne is now Postdoc at Princeton university
JULIEN HURTAUD
Master student (2018)
Julien participated to the development of an optoelectrical device to promote axon growth and collateralization after brain damage. Julien is now a PhD student at CEA
RACHEL KURIAN
Master student (2018)
Rachel assisted Julie Anne on the BDNF and stress project. Rachel is now Assistant engineer in the team
CLEMENTINE FULBERT
Master student (2018)
Clémentine participated to the development of an optoelectrical device to promote axon growth using NIR stimulation. Clémentine is now a PhD student at CEA-Clinatec
LAURA CLAUZIER
Assist engineer (2016-2018)
Laura worked on the development of TrkB positive allosteric modulators in collaboration with the lab of Didier Rognan (Strasbourg univ) and SATT Conectus. Laura is now engineer at CEA
THEO ASPERT
Master student (2016)
Theo created a huge data-set of vesicular kinetics to develop a mathematical model of axonal transport in collaboration with Raphael Voituriez (Paris-Sorbonne univ). Theo is now a PhD student at Strasbourg university
EVE MOUTAUX
Master student (2016)
Eve developed new microfluidic devices in collaboration with Benoit Charlot (IES, Montpellier univ) to study how neuronal activity regulates vesicular trafficking during axon branching. Eve pursued this work with a PhD in the team
MARIYA NIKILOVA
Master student (2015)
Mariya studied how axonal transport of secretory vesicles evolves during neuronal network development and maturation
AURELIE GENOUX
Assist engineer (2013-2015)
Aurelie characterized dozens of microfluidic devices in collaboration with Benoit Charlot (IES, Montpellier univ), that set the basis of the current projects. Aurelie is now a tenured INSERM engineer at Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience
OUR COLLABORATORS
iES, Montpellier Univ, France
Design and fabrication of microfluidics and microelectrode arrays (brain-on-a-chip)
Ecole des Mines, Campus Charpak Gardanne, France
Microelectronics and light waveguides in microfluidics
Institut Fresnel, Aix-Marseille Univ, France
Quantative Phase Microscopy in microfluidics
INMED, Aix Marseille Univ, France
In vivo characterisation of RAIL
INP, Aix-Marseille Univ, France
Human IPSC-derived neurons and organoids
DIDIER ROGNAN
LIT, Strasbourg Univ, France
Drug design and synthesis
JACQUES BARIK
IPMC, Nice Univ, France
BDNF, stress and depression