People Archive

The CIG would like to wish Prof. Fisun Hamaratoglu, Prof. Vincent Dion and their group members all the best in the next chapter of their careers.

My name is Sevasti Gaspari and from November 2018 I am a member of the Prof. Thorens’ lab as a postdoctoral researcher. After obtaining a B.Sc in Biology and a M.Sc in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine at University of Crete (Greece), I continued with a Ph.D in Neurobiology in the lab of Dr. Zachariou at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NY), with a main focus on the role of Regulation of G-protein Signaling in chronic pain and responses to opioids. I applied murine mouse models, biochemistry and whole transcriptome analysis to investigate signal transduction adaptations in the brain associated with long term pain states, and prolonged exposure to opioids. “Staying in the brain” from now on I will be focusing on the exploration of neuronal circuits controlling feeding behavior and glucose homeostasis.

Prof. Salamin and Prof Delaneau’s labs have recently joined the Genopode building.

You can find the Salamin lab in the ex-Vital IT’s rooms on the 1st floor and O.Delaneau’s office is in 2015 on the 2nd floor. The Delaneau lab will soon be established but you can already find some information about his research here.

I am Anastasiya Strembitska and I have joined the laboratory of Prof. Thorens in November.

I have obtained my BSc in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Lisbon, IST, Portugal. After that I moved to Glasgow, UK, to pursue a MSc Degree in Translational Medicine and, later, PhD in Cardiovascular Sciences in Dr. Salt’s laboratory at the Glasgow University. During my PhD I studied the effect on hyperinsulinaemia and hyperglycaemia on insulin-stimulated nitric oxide production and mitochondrial phenotype in human macrovascular endothelial cells.

My research in Prof. Thorens’ group will focus on the role of mitochondria in glucose sensing in neurons and regulation of glucagon secretion.