During
confinement, we are all finding creative ways to get work done!
From our couch,
artistically drinking coffee, on our balcony…or making baguettes…
MetaboSENS
heroes will go long ways we get mission accomplished!
Away from labbench means even closer to nutrients and creative cooking for all MetaboSENS team! It makes a perfect sense that in this confinement we stimulate our metabolism with delicious calories from home made fresh pasta, pancakes, and baguettes to tempt class 3 PI3K.
27 March 2020 We had a lively discussion in our first journal club where all presented diverse research subjects from novel heat resistant proteins, bioluminescent squid, to autophagy in plants. It’s important to look to other fields of research to expand your view and that could stimulate your curiousity.
One-to-one meetings are a must, even two-to-one meetings with the PI as well!
25 March 2020 In our first virtual team meeting, Nate gave us an exciting look at where he is on his project, and what new ideas he has to follow once we are all back in the lab!
13 March 2020 In response to the current global health emergency, we decided to prepare our own hand sanitizer.
11 March 2020 We were all extremely happy to have a student visiting our lab. Hopefully, we convinced her to become a great scientist in the years to come. Nate gave her some helpful tips next time she will make gels!
28 February 2020 Congratulations to Konstantina for officially obtaining her MSc with the specialty of “Molecular and Cellular Biology” from Sorbonne Université of Paris.
25 February 2020 Chantal presented one of the papers that has inspired her greatly on the circadian clock and the timing of feeding at our INEM Pizza Club seminar!
End of February, double birthday in
the team! Happy birthday Alioune and Ganna. More cool wishes for Team 17 to
come true.
18 February 2020 Alioune has
successfully presented his on-going MSc project at INEM young researcher
meeting. Five months of great productive work to come.
13-14 February 2020 All team has enjoyed the networking with an amazing line up of speakers at INEM Inauguration Symposium “FROM INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY
TO MOLECULAR MEDICINE”, Paris, France.
6 February 2020 Congratulations to Dr. Muriel Girard who has defended her HDR degree. New research horizons are open for her to lead an exciting project on rare
liver diseases of children.
4 February 2020 Chantal has done an excellent seminar at INEM summarising the past three years of her PhD project craft. Great story to tell to world.
31 January 2020 Nate has presented his thesis project at INEM PhD student day. Lots of interest and cool questions from audience! Go BIG Nate!
15 January 2020 Congratulations to Nate for getting an official MSc! Thanks to Dr. Alexandre Benmerah for doing such excellent job with Master 2 course, Spécialité «Biologie et Développement Cellulaires», Universités Paris Descartes et Paris Diderot.
18-19 September 2019 BREAKING NEWS
We ARE MOVING to great, amazing, cool, super new premises of INEM institute in newly refurbished Descartes Medical School on Necker Hospital Campus. The moment that we have waited for 6 years is finally fast approaching. Last boxes to pack and we all are looking forward to settle in new amazing lab!
1 September 2019, Anton has finished his postdoctoral training in our team and will embark on exciting postdoctoral journey to new research horizons! We all wish him the brightest future in all his beginnings!
24-28 August 2019, Ganna and Chantal have had a fantastic time at EBRS meeting in Lyon!
It was a mega great meeting of super top-tier science, old friends and tasty food!!! Million of new ideas, great feedback on our project and more collaborative links. This is just living scientific dream life!
Nate has won a highly
competitive three-year PhD Fellowship from French Government to fund his thesis
project!!!!
We are mega proud for Nate’s achievements and are looking forward to open more
champagne bottles for many more discoveries!!!
21 June 2019 Had a great team-moment
together for a picnic during Fete de la Music at Park Montsouris
15 June
2019 We are super happy to welcome Alexis Gadault who joins the team for one year
as an Assistant Engineer!
12 June 2019 Ganna gave a seminar at Bichat Hospital at Centre de Recherche sur l’Inflammation (CRI), Paris, France.
6 June 2019 Ganna gave a keynote closing speech on the YRLS
2019 conference (Young Researchers in Life Sciences - www.yrls.fr) at IMAGINE
institute in Paris, France.
Chantal has won the
best flash talk award during YRLS 2019 conference (Young Researchers in Life Sciences!!!! Congratulations for this
cool achievement!
3 June 2019
We are super happy to welcome Alexandre Quesnoy, a
final year student of L’école des ingénieurs en biotechnologies, who joins the
team for two-month training!
Chantal has won a highly competitive fellowship from La Fondation pour la recherche Médicale (FRM) to fund her last year of PhD training in the team! She celebrated with a style by throwing a fantastic HOUMOUS party with live cooking!!!
We are MEGA proud for her achievements and looking forward to more celebrations to come!!!!
24 May 2019 Ganna and
Muriel participated at one-day meeting of Centre de Référence des Maladies
Inflammatoires des Voies Biliaires et des Hépatites Auto-Immunes, Paris, France.
14 May 2019 Ganna served as a reviewer at PhD thesis committee of Camille Ingargiola, IJPB INRA de Versailles. Versailles, France.
12 April 2019 Ganna gave a seminar a s part of the “Barcelona Biomed Plenary Seminars” organized by IRB Barcelona and IBMB-CSIC IRB Barcelona, Spain.
27 March 2019 Ganna will give a course on metabolic addictions of cancer cells at Descartes Medical School.
12 March 2019 Ganna has an honour to be one of the first
laureates of Fondation TOURRE (http://www.fondation-tourre.org/fr/). Every year it
is a great pleasure to meet Michel Tourre, his friends, family and donors of
this fantastic foundation that supports junior researchers.
Congratulations to this year laureates Dr. Yenkel GRINBERG-BLEYER and Dr. Géraldine GENTRIC! The warm moments of this gala banquet at the Salons de la Présidence of Paris-Descartes University will stay with me all year.
