Yann Emmenegger - Technician
Sonia Jimenez - Technician
Sonia obtained her CFC in Biology in 2008 at Nestlé Research Center, she obtained the CIG and AVML price for the best result at the practical exam.
She joined the University of Lausanne from 2008 to 2015 in the group of Paul Franken, Medhi Tafti and Walter Wahli.
She worked from 2016 until 2017 at Nestlé Institute of Health Science in the group of Frédéric Gachon (Circadian rythms) and Kei Sakamoto (Diabetes).
Shanaz Diessler - Other
Jeffrey Hubbard - Other
Nina Dukanovic - PhD Student
Nina obtained her Bachelor degree in Molecular biology and physiology at the University of Belgrade in 2018. During her undergraduate studies, she did a summer internship in the Franken lab for two months. She finished her Master studies in Neuroscience at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris in 2019 and completed her Master thesis project in the lab of Antoine Triller where she worked on microglial modulation of inhibitory synapses with the focus on extracellular vesicles mediated microglia-to-neuron communication. She joined Franken lab in October 2019 as a PhD student and is now working on the relationship between lipid metabolism and sleep.
Carlos Eduardo Sousa Neves - Post-doctoral Fellow
Carlos Neves graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Lisbon, Portugal after which he moved to Aberdeen, Scotland, where he obtained his PhD in developmental biology from the University of Aberdeen. After gaining further post-doctoral experience, he joined a small startup company in Edinburgh (Fios Genomics) as a bioinformatician. Since then he has worked for Sophia Genetics in Lausanne. He will join Paul Franken’s lab from January 2021 to study the molecular changes induced by acute sleep deprivation in mice.
Andrey Lazopulo - Post-doctoral Fellow
Andrey received his master's degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University Department of Physics. During his undergraduate, he worked with a medical physics group and learned how physics is applied to study medicine and biology. He did his diploma project at the Russian Academy of Science Institute of Protein Research, where he studied protein-RNA interactions using x-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics. In 2012, Andrey was accepted to the University of Miami Graduate school. He carried out his thesis project in the Dr. Sheyum Syed lab, where he studied the mechanisms of the circadian clock and sleep homeostat in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 and then continued his work with Dr. Syed as an affiliated postdoc.