Alessandro BarducciEnseignement et PhD A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Salvatore Assenza, Duccio Malinverni
Anne-Laure Mahul MellierExpertise
Cellular Biology: Cell culture of mammalian cell lines (U2OS, N2a, M17, SH-S5Y5, Cos, HeLa, HEK, MCF7), Astrocytic and neuronal primary cultures (hippocampus, cortex, striatum, midbrain) from P0 mouse or rat pups or from E16-E19 mice embryos, iPSC neuronal cultures (proliferation, passaging, differentiation in iNeurons or iDopaminergic neurons), Cellular transfection (DNA plasmid, siRNA, shRNA), Lentiviruses production and infection of neuronal primary cultures or mammalian cell lines, Samples pre
Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa CorreiaThroughout my PhD and postdoctoral studies I was trained in world-renowned laboratories and institutions in the United States of America (University of Washington and The Scripps Research Institute). Very early in my scientific career I found out my fascination about protein structure and function. My PhD studies evolved in the direction of immunogen design and vaccine engineering which sparked my interest in the many needs and opportunities in vaccinology and translational research. My efforts resulted in an enlightening piece of work where for the first time, computationally designed immunogens elicited potent neutralizing antibodies. During my postdoctoral studies I joined a chemical biology laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute. In this stage I developed novel chemoproteomics methods for the identification of protein-small molecule interaction sites in complex proteomes. In March 2015, I joined the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Switzerland as a tenure track assistant professor. The focus of my research group is to develop computational tools for protein design with particular emphasis in applying these strategies to immunoengineering (e.g. vaccine and cancer immunotherapy). The activities in my laboratory focus on computational design methods development and experimental characterization of the designed proteins. Our laboratory has been awarded with 2 prestigious research grants from the European Research Council. Lastly, I have been awarded the prize for best teacher of Life sciences in 2019.
Silvestro MiceraEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Johannes Sebastiaan Nieuwenhuis, Mouhamed Zorkot, Angela Braccia, Jonathan Muheim, Xiangyu Xu A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Elvira Pirondini, Andrea Crema, Marco Bonizzato, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Edoardo D'Anna, Emanuele Formento, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Flavio Raschella, Nawal Kinany, Théo Lemaire, Marion Aimée Geneviève Badi-Dubois, Tristan Jean Robin Barjavel, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Outman Akouissi, Giulia Dominijanni, Simone Romeni, Franklin Leong, Ele
David Lyndon EmsleyEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Ray Cowen, Ümmügülsüm Günes, Máté Visegrádi, Ruben Rodriguez Madrid A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Dominik Józef Kubicki, Arthur César Pinon, Albert Hofstetter, Federico Maria Paruzzo, Baptiste Busi, Snaedis Björgvinsdóttir, Martins Balodis, Aditya Mishra, Manuel Cordova, Bruno Simões de Almeida, Yu Rao, Daria Torodii A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Daniele Mammoli, Anna Morales Melgares Cours Advanced nuclear magnetic resonance CH-401 Principes de l
Julian Charles ShillcockJulian received his PhD at Simon Fraser University in Canada for work on Monte Carlo simulations of liquid crystal phase transitions and the elastic properties of fluid and polymerized membranes. He was a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany for five years applying coarse-grained simulation techniques - principally Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) and Brownian Dynamics - to equilibrium and dynamic properties of fluid lipid membranes. A major target of this research was to reveal the molecular rearrangements that occur during vesicle fusion. During this time, he developed a commercially-available, parallel DPD code that is being used by several universities. He was an Associate Professor at MEMPHYS in the Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark. He has also worked in industry, designing and writing software for communication satellite simulations (British Aerospace, 1986-1990), and fluid simulation software (Accelrys, Inc., 1998-1999). He joined the Blue Brain Project in 2011, and uses mesoscale simulation techniques, together with theoretical analysis and collaborations with experimentalists, to study the dynamics of cellular processes. Current projects include simulating the formation of the post-synaptic density in dendritic spines and developing theoretical models of the supramolecular organisation of synapses. He also teaches Master's and PhD courses in computational cell biology and biophysics. He wrote and maintains an open source dissipative particle dynamics simulation code: https://github.com/Osprey-DPD/osprey-dpd Orcid: orcid.org/0000-0002-7885-735X 