Nastassia Gobet finished her Bachelor in biochemistry at the University of Geneva in 2016. She obtained her master in Molecular Life Science with a specialization in bioinformatics. She did her first-step project in Winship Herr’s lab where she searched for mutations in HCF-1 associated with cancer using RNA-sequencing data from public database, under the supervision of Viviane Praz. For her master project, she worked on a novel method to measure instability of disease-causing trinucleotide repeats under the supervision of Vincent Dion. In June 2018, she started a PHD between Vital-IT group and Paul Franken’s lab where she is studying sleep regulation using a systems bioinformatics approach.

My name is Andreia Dos Santos Lopes and I’m from Portugal. I got a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Coimbra, one of the 10 oldest universities in the world. Then I got a Master’s in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Aveiro. My Master’s project focused on a rare disease- Congenital Erythrocytosis- and it was developed at the Haematology Department of the Hospital Center of Coimbra. Last April, I finished an internship at the UMC Utrecht (Netherlands) also in the Congenital Erythrocytosis area. I’m now joining the van Leeuwen lab as PhD student.

Alan Lihic is a Master student at the Unil in medical biology. He is doing a Master thesis in Prof. Thorens’s group, under the supervision of Ms. Clara Roujeau on glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in pancreatic beta cells.