Welcome to our new PhD students Yoon & Alex

This month, Yoon Koo and Alexander Hornung have started their PhD projects.

Yoon comes from Korea. She will be supervised by Anne-Marie Lellouch and Jean-Pierre Gorvel in a Labex inform project involving also Marie-Pierre Valignat and Olivier Theodoly. The goal is to develop study the migration properties of T lymphocytes subpopulation generated by the infection of mice by Bordetella Perrtussis.

Alexander comes from Austria. He will be supervised by Marie-Pierre Valignat and investigate the properties of lymphocyte migration on substrates with different adhesion properties.

A new research assistant (Ingénieur d’Etudes) in LAI!

Martine Pelicot starts her new job in LAI. Martine has 4 years’ experience in a private company, VIRBAC and was then hired by INSERM in Paris, in unit U699 Immunopathologie Rénale, Récepteurs et Inflammation. She is now temporarily hosted at LAI as a research assistant.  Martine will be in charge of producing new types of engineered cells, with her background of molecular biology and flow cytometry skills.