PhD Students A-F

Fawzi Ajami, Group Vjestica, currently working on the subject "Molecular mechanisms of zygotic specification in fission yeasts" after a Master in Genomics and Health at the Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon, in 2022.

Daulet Amerzhanov, Group Bertelli Lombardo, currently working on "Diet and stress in vervet monkeys: The role of the gut microbiome" after a Doctor of Medicine degree at the Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Astana, Kazakhstan in 2020.

Lucas Anchieri, Group Malaspinas, currently working on inferring evolutionary parameters (such as selection and dominance coefficients) from time-serial data, following a master degree in Molecular Life Sciences (specialization in Bioinformatics) from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in February 2021.

Ahrmad Annan, Group Ciriello, currently working on Epigenetic and transcriptional programs underlying cancer cell plasticity, following a Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from the University of Bern, Switzerland, in February 2022.

Ayokunle Oluwaseun Araoyinbo, Group Vjestica, currently working on the subject "Molecular mechanisms of zygotic specification in fission yeasts" after a Master of science at the Leeds Beckett University, UK, in 2017.

Iman Darifa Bentahar, Group Fasshauer, currently working on "The evolution of SNARE proteins" after a Master of science in biology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, in July 2018.

Michael Beyeler, Group Bergmann, currently working on the subject "Retina images and pathway analysis" after a Master in Science in Bioengineering at the EPFL, Switzerland, in 2018.

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Sacha Bors, Group Bergmann, currently working on the subject "Evaluating the potential of image-derived phenotypes for cardiovascular diseases prognostic based on genetic association" after a Master in Mathematics at the EPFL, Switzerland, in October 2021.

Leah Böttger, Group Bergmann, currently working on the subject "Genetic and demographic influences on vascular image-derived phenotypes and their association to disease" after a Master of Science at the University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Davide Bozzi, Group Malaspinas, currently working on the subject "Characterizing the metagenome of ancient individuals" after a Master of science at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, in 2020.

Andjela Brancic Trickovic, Group Vjestica, currently working on the subject "Regulation of homeodomain transcription factors by small peptides" after a Master of science at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 2020.

Alessandro Brandulas Cammarata, Group Robinson-Rechavi, currently working on "Bioinformatics of characterizing expression variability" after a Master in Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in February 2022.

Maxime Brunner, Group Santoni, currently working on the subject "The genetic basis of combined pituitary hormone deficiency and pituitary neoplasms" after a Master of science at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in January 2019.

Christabel Floi Bucao, Group Robinson-Rechavi, currently working on the subject "Evolution of gene expression" after a Master of Biophysics and Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK, in September 2018.

Daria Buszta, Groups Gottardo and Homicsko, currently working on the subject "Understanding mechanisms of response and relapse to immunotherapy using single-cell multi-omics analyses" after a BSc. Biomedical Sciences (with a year in industry) at the University of York in 2020 and a graduate scheme at AstraZeneca (2020-2022).

Alessia Carrara, Group Bertelli Lombardo / Greub, currently working on "Biomarkers of pathogenicity in clinical microbiology" after a Master in Molecular biotechnology and bioinformatics at the University of Milan, Italy, in October 2020.

Théo Cavinato, Group Malaspinas, currently working on the subject "Reconstruction of ancient DNA using genealogies" after a Master of Science in Molecular Life Sciences - Specialization Bioinformatics, at the University of Lausanne, in January 2022.

Caterina Cevallos Brenes, Group Reymond, currently working on "Unmasking the genetic underpinnings of variable expressivity in complex traits through common and rare variants integration" after a Master in Bioinformatics at the University of Bologna, Italy, in February 2023.

Farid Chaabane, Group Bertelli Lombardo, currently working on "Empowering the translational framework of microbiota: from software to microbial community coalescence", following a Master of Science in Molecular Life Science (bioinformatics specialization) from University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2020, and 2 years experience in industry.

Carmen Chen, Group Guery, currently working on the subject "Microbiota and host response in Salmonella Typhimurium infection (MISTIC)" after a Master in Medical Microbiology at the University of Manchester, UK, in December 2019.

Yangji Choi, Groups Greub/Bertelli Lombardo, currently working on the subject "Microbiota metagenomics on SARS-CoV-2" after a Master 2 in Systems and synthetic biology at the Paris-Saclay University, France, in July 2020.

Hugo Corval, Group Goudet, currently working on "Evolution of colour in the genus Tyto" after a Master in Behavior, Evolution and Conservation (mention Computational Ecology and Evolution) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2022.

Michela Dall'Angelo, Group Fasshauer, currently working on "Structural and functional evolution of C2 domains in proteins" after a Master of science at the University of Verona, Italy, in March 2020.

Elindi De Coning, Group Bertelli Lombardo, currently working on "Role of the microbiota along the gut-brain axis and Alzheimer's disease" after a Master at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in February 2023.

Estella Yixing Dong, Group Gottardo, currently working on the subject "Exploring normalization techniques and cell-cell communication with spatial transcriptomics", after a Master of science in Biostatistics at the University of Toronto, Canada, in December 2020.

Lukas Eberhardt, Group Engel, currently working on "Functional characterization of host-specific bee gut microbiota" after a Master at the Universität Heidelberg, Germany, in September 2023.