Patrick Laurent: Principal Investigator from Mons, Belgium. Worm geek & biology lover. Spend most of my time trying to understand how genes control neuronal function and ageing. As PI, I am writing papers, messing around in the lab, and thinking about new experiments and projects. As a person, I love good food and beer, surprising music and walking in wild nature.
Junior Badziak: PhD student from Natal, Brasil. He works on cold stress-response.
Miguel Soler: PhD student from Galicia, spain. He works on phac-1, a phosphatase regulated by actin dynamics which modulate neuropeptide release.
Teresa Lobo: PhD student from Portugal. She works on the biogenesis of ciliary extracellular vesicles.
Aleksandra Nawrocka: PhD student from Gdansk, Poland. She work on the biogenesis of extracellular vesicles.
Clementine Deleuze: PhD student from Mons, Belgium. she works on gap junctions.
Aditee Dandekar: PhD Student from Mumbai, India. She works on presynaptic plasticity. part of https://nervspan.excitingworms.eu/index.html
Recent allumni :
Katerina Stratigi: PhD student 2017-2021 from Heraklion, Greece. Works for UCB, Belgium
Adria Razzauti: PhD student from Barcelona, Spain 2018-2023. Post Doc in Maxwell Heiman lab, USA
Michiho Onizuka: PhD student from Wavre, Belgium 2019-2023. Works for UCB, Belgium
Ramiro Lorenzo: Post Doc from Argentina 2016-18. Bioinformatician in the Neurophy lab since 2022.
Previously :
Ferdinand Ngale Njume: PhD worked in 2020-2021
Abdulkadir Abakir: PhD worked in 2014-2017. Finished his PhD in Nottingham U, in UK.
Celine Martineau: Post Doc, 2015-18. Left to J Ewbank Lab, Marseille.
Stéphanie Grimbert: Post-Doc 2015-2017. Letf to A Piekny Lab, Montreal.
Nicolas Desmedt: worked in 2015. Consultant for GSK.
Visiting students:
Kitzia Gomez (Mexico 2016), Melisa Ozturk (Turkey 2023), Mert Tufan (Turkey 2024), Klaudia Kołodziejska (Poland 2024)
Master students:
Cedric Vanaudenhove:2015-2016 David La Marca:2016-2017. Leonore Bleret: 2017-18. Anisa Termataj: 2017-18. Sheima Ali Mansour, Claire Vanbeleghem: 2019-20. Teresa Lobo: 2020-2021. Nicole Adou, Eleonore Paternotte: 2022-2023. Ikram El Idrissi: 2023-2024. Thibault Leonard: 2024-2025