Students 2019

I feel sincerely honored and profoundly grateful that my application was chosen for the iGE3 PhD salary award. This is a great source of motivation to keep striving and working hard to push my research project forward. I will make the best of this opportunity to pursue, with even more dedication, my investigations on the transcriptomic and epigenetic basis of addiction vulnerability. I want to deeply thank the IGE3 committee for placing its trust in me and for providing such opportunity and support every year. I also want to express sincerely my gratitude to my supervisor Christian Lüscher for giving me the opportunity to work in his lab on such a fascinating and crucial subject, and for being such a good mentor and support. My thanks also go to all my lab members that are a real source of inspiration in my continuous professional and personal growth. Finally, I want to thank my family for their never-ending love and support.

I am very grateful to the iGE3 committee for selecting me for this student salary award. This award encourages me to continue pursue my PhD on the direction of understanding the genetics underlying Hydra regeneration. In addition, I also would like to thank Prof. Brigitte Galliot for providing me the opportunity to work on such an interesting project and to all the members of the lab for their constant support.

It is a great honor to me to receive this iGE3 PhD salary award. I am so glad and proud. First, I would like to thank the iGE3 committee for choosing my project. With this generous support, I could continue my studies in Geneva to investigate the molecular mechanism of RNA modifications in gene regulation and mammalian fertility. Second, I want to thank my supervisor, Ramesh who gives the opportunity to join the lab and his support as well as all the members from our amazing team.

I feel deeply honored to receive this prestigious award. I want to express my gratitude to the executive and external advisory boards of the Institute of Genetics and Genomics of Geneva for giving me this great opportunity that will allow me to pursue my project on transcriptional heterogeneity of the developing thalamic progenitors and the epigenetic mechanisms leading to their final neuronal fates. This work will, I hope, contribute to a better understanding of genomics aspects in neuroscience, an objective now reachable thanks to the trust that IGE3 committee members have placed in me and my project. Finally, I would like to thank my mentors and supervisors Pierre Fabre and Denis Jabaudon as well as my colleagues for their teaching, advices and support that prepared me to meet the challenges of this exciting scientific odyssey.

I am very grateful to have received the IGE3 PhD salary award. I am very excited to continue my studies on the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii under the supervision of Prof. Dominique Soldati-Favre. Thanks to genome-wide forward genetic screens, I will be able to identify vitamin transporters essential for the establishment of Toxoplasma infection. This award gives me confidence in the quality of my research and of my ideas, and will be essential for the development of my scientific career.

I feel delighted and honored to have been selected for the iGE3 PhD salary award and have the opportunity to continue my research on the investigation of atherosclerosis progression with a single cell approach. I sincerely would like to thank the committee for their interest in my project, my supervisor Prof. Emmanouil Dermitzakis for his constant support and all the lab members for their precious advices.