Metchnikoff Class (2015-2018)

Ph.D. Student	Undergraduate studies	Laboratory	Thesis Advisor	Lab Head	Doctoral School	Ph.D. project
Jian BAI	Zhejiang University, China	Membrane Traffic and Cell Division	Arnaud Echard	Arnaud Echard	CdV	Identification of novel genes regulating abscission in animal cell division
Bianca BALBINO	University of São Paulo, Brazil	Antibodies in Therapy and Pathology	Laurent Reber	Pierre Bruhns	PPT	Mechanisms of food allergy and oral immunotherapy
Alexander BELYY	Lomonosov MSU, Moscow, Russia	Biochemistry of Macromolecular Interactions	Undine Mechold	Daniel Ladant	BioSPC	ExoY, a nucleotidyl cyclase toxin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Maria Lucia CARRAU EGUÍA	University of the Republic (UdelaR), Montevideo, Uruguay	Viral Populations and Pathogenesis	Marco Vignuzzi	Marco Vignuzzi	BioSPC	Genetic robustness and RNA virus evolution
Thalia GARCIA	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, México	HIV, inflammation and persistence	Michaela Müller- Trutwin/ Béatrice Jacquelin	Michaela Müller-Trutwin	BioSPC	Contribution of inflammasome of monocytes/ macrophages to the induction of generalized inflammation during SIV infection
Anand KUMAR	Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India	Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Transport	Nicolas Reyes	Nicolas Reyes	BioSPC	Molecular bases of B-lymphocyte antigen CD20 function and pharmacology
Rostyslav MAKARENKO	Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kiev, Ukraine	Genome Dynamic	Benoît Arcangioli/ Serge Gangloff	Benoît Arcangioli	CdV	Genetic stability during quiescence
Marta MANSOS LOURENÇO	Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), Portugal	Molecular Biology of Gene in Extremophiles	Laurent Debarbieux	Patrick Forterre	CdV	Role of virulent bacteriophages on gut bacterial populations
Wei OUYANG	Nanchang Hangkong University, China	Imaging and Modeling	Christophe Zimmer	Christophe Zimmer	FdV	Sparse reconstruction methods for live cell super-resolution localization microscopy
Lucas ROBINSON	University of Regina, Canada	Nuclear Organisation and Oncogenesis	Oliver Bischof	Anne Dejean	BioSPC	Role of Pioneer Transcription Factor NF-YA in Cell Fate Decisions
Ignacio SANTECCHIA	Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina	Biology and Genetics of the Bacterial Cell Wall	Catherine Werts	Ivo Gomperts Boneca	BioSPC	Study of escape of immune responses by Leptospira interrogans and consequences of chronic renal colonization in mice
Matteo TASSINARI	University of Bologna, Italy	Structural microbiology	Francesca Gubellini	Pedro Alzari	CdV	Structural characterisation of Type VII secretion systems involved in mycobacterial invasion
PPU – CNBG
Ph.D. Student	Undergraduate studies	Laboratory	Thesis Advisor	Lab Head	Doctoral School	Ph.D. project
Xiongxiong LI	Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products, China	Molecular Retrovirology	Jean-Pierre Vartanian	Simon Wain-Hobson	CdV	Microbat and elephant APOBEC3A cytidine deaminases induce double-strand DNA breaks and nuclear DNA hypermutation
Junjie YANG	Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products, China	Lymphopoiesis	Ana Cumano	Ana Cumano	BioSPC	1. Role of the imprinted gene network in fetal hematopoiesis 2. Impact of temporally-restricted waves of developing thymocytes in the establishment of thymic epithelium microenvironments.