Patrick Laurent: Principal Investigator from Belgium. Worm geek & biology lover. I spend most of my time trying to understand how genes control neuronal biology and function. As PI, I am writing papers, messing around in the lab, and thinking about new experiments and projects. I love good food and beer, surprising music and walking in wild nature.
patrick.laurent @ ulb.be
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.
Aditee is part of https://nervspan.excitingworms.eu/index.html
Chunxue Song: Post Doc from China. She works on cilia diversity.
Tanumoy Nandi: PhD from Bengalore, India. He works on ciliary extracellular EVs
Claudio Lopez: PhD from Mexico. He works on how parental environement shape gene expression in the progeny.
Claudio is part of https://nervspan.excitingworms.eu/index.html
Ramiro Lorenzo: Post Doc from Argentina 2016-18. Bioinformatician in the Neurophy lab since 2022.
Alumni :
Katerina Stratigi: PhD student 2017-2021 from Heraklion, Greece. Works for UCB, Belgium
Michiho Onizuka: PhD student from Wavre, Belgium 2019-2023. Works for UCB, Belgium
Adria Razzauti: PhD student from Barcelona, Spain 2018-2023. Post Doc in Maxwell Heiman lab, USA
Miguel Soler: PhD student 2021-2025 from Galicia, spain. He works on phac-1, a phosphatase regulated by actin dynamics which modulate neuropeptide release. PhD obtained in dec 2025.
Teresa Lobo: PhD student 2021-2025 from Portugal. She worked on the biogenesis of ciliary extracellular vesicles. writing her thesis
Junior Badziak: PhD student 2020-2024 from Natal, Brasil. He works on cold stress-response. writing his thesis
Abdulkadir Abakir: 2014-2025 in ULB, then PhD and Post Doc in Nothingham U, then Altos Lab
Celine Martineau: Post Doc 2015-2016 in ULB then in J Ewbank Lab, Marseille.
Stéphanie Grimbert: Post-Doc 2015- 2016 in ULB then in A Piekny Lab, Montreal.
Ferdinand Ngale Njume: PhD 2020-2021 in ULB, Post doc in UCR then Liverpool U.
Visiting students:
Kitzia Gomez (Mexico 2016), Melisa Ozturk (Erasmus, Turkey 2023), Mert Tufan (Erasmus, Turkey 2024), Klaudia Kołodziejska (EMBO short-term, 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
