Carine Winkler - Technician

Carine obtained her Master of Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. From 2003 to 2006 she worked in the group of Prof. A. Kato in the Department of of Basic Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva. She joined the CIG in 2007.

Céline Lukowicz - Post-doctoral Fellow

After graduating in biology and pharmacological innovation, Céline worked in Dr. Hervé Guillou’s team during her PhD in Integrative Toxicology and Metabolism at the Institute for Agricultural Research, University of Toulouse (France) till July 2018.

Her PhD research project focused on the sexually dimorphic role of the nuclear receptor CAR (Constitutive Androstane Receptor) in energy homeostasis and xenobiotic detoxication. She investigated the metabolic role of the nuclear receptor CAR and the long-term effect of a chronic dietary exposure to pesticides in vivo, with a special emphasis on the role of CAR on the sexually dimorphic deleterious effects of this pesticide cocktail.

At the CIG, her postdoctoral project is to investigate the mechanism underlying the initiation of a pro-tumorigenic cascade in response to UV insults in skin cells.

Paris Jafari - Other

Paris Jafari is a new scientist in the group of Prof. Michalik at CIG, moving from the University of UTAH where she was a faculty at the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Paris has a Pharm D. degree from Iran and she has done a PhD thesis in “Life Sciences” at the University of Lausanne, followed by a postdoc in cell therapy at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), and a fellowship at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center at Harvard Medical School. Her main subject of interest is cutaneous biology and cell therapy of burns and wounds. At CIG, she will be exploring the role of miRNAs in wound healing and regeneration.