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April 2025 - Two new team members!

Aarti Venkatesan and Anushka Nikhil have joined the lab for 2 and 4 months, respectively. Aarti is a master student from the University of Helsinki, coming under a MSc mobility from NeuroSchool. Anushka is a visiting researcher from Stanford University, sponsored by Case Western Reserve University exchange program and France SEP mobility grant. Welcome!

April 2025 - APP students in the lab

This year, Amandine, Juliette, Maria and Loic, four M1 neuroscience students joined the lab for their APP (Learning by Practice) to discover how we study myelin in culture.
Thanks to Naz, Lucile and Theresa for supervising them during these 2 intense days!

March 2025 - “La Semaine du Cerveau”

This year, Nicolas Vermeersch and Sarah Moyon took part to “La Semaine du Cerveau” (Brain week). They went to a Marseille high school to introduce students to glial cells and their roles in neurodegenerative diseases.

March 2025 - “Journées Portes Ouvertes France Sclérose en Plaques“

Like last year, we participated to the open-house day from the French Multiple Sclerosis foundation, a great opportunity to share our work with patients and families of patients.

December 2024 - New team member alert!

Jianing Daniel Liu Cheng joined our team for his PhD. He obtained an international scholarship for NeuroSchool (AMU) to study the role of oligodendroglial cells in Alzheimer’s Disease.

Welcome in the team Daniel!

December 2024 - Student rotation

Lola Roux, a L3 student in psychology in Aix-Marseille University, joined our team for 2 weeks. She gets to experience first hand a neuroscience wet lab, by following Lucile mentorship! Have fun!

December 2024 - New grant

The lab has been awarded an Innovative and Collaborative Grant from NeuroMarseille. Our project, in collaboration with Dr. Michel Puceat team (C2VN) will study oligodendroglial cells in Cornelia de Lange syndrome.