Lab members
Senior research staff
Julien Courchet - D.V.M., Ph.D.
I graduated from the National Veterinary School of Lyon in 2003 and subsequently joined the group of Marc Billaud at the University of Lyon where I earned a Ph.D. in cell biology and signalling in 2008. My graduate work focused on a family of RNA binding proteins termed hMex-3 and involved in the sorting of mRNA to distinct RNA granules.
I subsequently joined the lab of Franck Polleux at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2008-2010), the Scripps Institute (2010-2013) and Columbia University in New York (2013-2015). My work focused on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cortical axons formation, outgrowth and branching in the mouse cortex.
Since 2015 I hold a Researcher position at INSERM and joined the NeuroMyoGene Institute at the University of Lyon. My group "Energy metabolism and neuronal development" studies the local regulation of metabolic pathways in developing axons.
Evelyne Goillot, Ph.D.
Evelyne is a CNRS research director with expertise in cell signaling and kinase pathways.
Evelyne trained with Pr Jean-Louis Touraine and obtained a PhD in immunology from the University of Lyon in 1991. She then performed research on MAP kinases signaling pathways and the regulation of apoptosis at Harvard Medical School with Pr Ed Harlow. In 1996 she joined the ENS Lyon and developed her research program with Pr Gilbert Brun and Pr Laurent Schaeffer.
She joined our group in January 2019 to decipher the molecular signalling of the kinase NUAK1 in the context of axonal morphogenesis.
Research Engineers
Géraldine Dilhet
Géraldine earned a Master's degree from the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Her expertise is in mouse behavioural analyses in neuroscience.
Géraldine joined the lab in May 2018 pursue the characterization of the functional consequences of neural circuits alterations on mouse behaviour.
PhD students
Marine Lanfranchi
Marine joined the lab in 2017 after earning a Master's degree in aging from the University of Paris Saclay.
Her Ph.D. project aims at characterizing some of the molecular mechanisms involved in the local regulation of the energy metabolism in developing axon.
Salma Ellouze
Salma was trained as a biologist in Tunisia, then performed a Master in Pharmacology in Clermont-Ferrand during which I performed an internship in immunology in Lyon.
Salma's joint PhD is a collaboration with the team of Olivier Raineteau (Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, Lyon). Her project aims at studying the impact of perinatal brain injuries on cortical progenitor’s maturation to produce functional cortical circuits. Salma applies transcriptomic and proteomic approaches to explore the coupling between cortical development and energy metabolism.
Hà My Lý
Hà My earned a Bachelor in Medical biotechnology at the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi.
She joined the team in 2019 for a Master internship and in 2020 obtained a fellowship from the French embassy in Vietnam (programme Bourse d'Excellence).
Her joint PhD project with the team of Rémi Mounier (Institut NeuroMyoGène, Lyon) focus on the roles of AMPK-related kinases in myogenesis.
Master students
Louise Fairey
Louise joined the lab in 2019 for a Master 2 in physiology at the University of Lyon.
She has a dual appointment with Rémi Mounier to work on the metabolic regulation of muscle stem cells in the context of skeletal muscle regeneration.
Maria Wehbe
Maria joined the lab in 2019 for a Master 2 in Immunology from the University of Beirut.
Her research project will aim at characterizing the function of some mutants of NUAK1 generated in the lab through a proteomic-based approach.
Luc Javin
Luc is a Master 1 student from the University of Lyon and joined the lab for a rotation early 2019.
His project focus on the characterization of mitochondria activity in developing neurons.