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June 2024 :

Researcher apprentice:

This year our team participated once again to the researcher apprentice’s initiative organized by the association “L’ arbre des connaissances”. Irini worked with Félix (15 years old) and Berenice (13 years old) from December to June in monthly 3 hour sessions where she allowed them to discover the magic world of CAR-T cells from CAR design and cloning till the expression in a T cell. Congratulations to Félix and Berenice for their presentation in the congress organized for all students participating to this initiative where they had the occasion to share their lab experience with their friends and family!

Participation to two scientific meetings.

Congratulations to Mathilde for her oral presentation to the Swiss Young Immunologists society (SYIS) Annual Symposium 2024.

Loredana was invited to present Mathilde and Despoina’s projects at the Immunoreceptors and Immunotherapy FASEB meeting, Saint Paul, Minnesota, US. Despoina presented her results in the poster session.

May 2024 :

Scientific Meeting :

Irini and Klaus participated to the EMBO workshop “Microglia in health and disease” that took place in Genova, Italy. Congratulations to Klaus for his poster presentation on his PhD project on a novel transcription factor regulating neuroinflammation! This workshop that gathered many experts in the field highlighted the importance of these cells in brain physiology and pathology. There is now much better understanding concerning different states at the transcriptional level of these fascinating cells but there is still a lot to unravel at the protein level and the molecular mechanisms involved in their diverse functions.

Welcome to Matéo!

Matéo joined the lab for an internship during his third year of pharmacy studies. Welcome.

December 2023:

NEW PROJECT FUNDED by ARC (Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer)

Thank you to the ARC Foundation for our recently funded project: Harnessing Autophagy to Enhance CAR-MF Function!

PhD DEFENSE

Congratulations to Vivien for his PhD degree! Good luck and all the best in the future!

WELCOME IRINI

Welcome to Irini Evnouchidou, our new Senior Scientist. She is a leader of neuro-inflammation projects developed in the team and an expert in TCR signaling and cell engineering. She will be the head of the E-Cell Therapy Facility: https://cri1149.fr/les-plateformes/plateau-techniques/plateau-de-production-de-cellules-therapeutiques-et-vecteurs-viraux/.

NOVEMBER 2023:

Scientific meeting:

Congratulations to Mathilde for presenting her work at:

  • 11th Scientific days ON AUTOPHAGY, Lyon, France and
  • GREMI (Recherche sur les médiateurs de l’inflammation), Institut Pasteur, Paris

OCTOBER 2023:

Welcome Prakriti for her master 2 internship.

SEPTEMBER 2023:

Scientific meeting:

Congratulations to Mathilde for her short talk at the annual meeting of the French Society of Immunology!

Scientific meeting:

Congratulations to Irini for her talk at the Microglia and Neuroinflammation conference at Clare College, Cambridge, and for winning a Biochemical Society scholarship!

WELCOME:

Thank you Marie for joining our team again! Welcome!

AUGUST 2023:

Scientific meeting:

Congratulations to Despoina for presenting her results to Immunology workshop in Lofoten, Norway!

TEAM:

Eva is leaving for other horizons! Goodbye Eva, thank you for the years together, all the best for the future.

JULY 2023:

NEW PROJECT FUNDED by FRC (Fondation pour la Recherche sur le Cerveau).

Thank you the FRC for supporting our research on neuro-inflammation.

Master 2 Internship:

Bravo to Marie for her Master 2 degree! Congratulations!

WELCOME: CONGRATULATIONS

to KLAUS for winning the French Ministry PhD fellowship! WELCOME Klaus!

JANUARY 2023:

NEW PROJECT CO-FUNDED BY WWCR (WORLD WIDE CANCER REASERCH) AND ARC (Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer)

Thank you the WWCR and ARC for supporting our studies on TCR and CAR receptors signaling!