Chiara Sinigaglia
CNRS researcher
After a Master at the University of Padua (Italy, Chiara did her PhD at the Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (University of Bergen, Norway), studying axial patterning mechanisms in the sea anemone Nematostella. She then contributed to establishing Clytia jellyfish as a tractable system to study regeneration, at the Developmental Biology Laboratory of Villefranche-sur-Mer (Sorbonne University, France). She later studied limb regeneration in the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis at the Institute for Functional Genomics of Lyon (France), before obtaining the ATIP-Avenir lab starting grant. She became a CNRS permanent researcher in 2022.
Lucas Leclere
CNRS researcher
Lucas obtained his PhD from Sorbonne University (France), studying life cycle evolution across hydrozoans and contributing to developing Clytia hemisphaerica as a tractable model. During his post-doc at the Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (Bergen, Norway), he studied embryonic development in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. He then pursued an independent research program on medusozoan biology and evolution at the Developmental Biology Laboratory of Villefranche-sur-Mer (Sorbonne University, France), becoming a CNRS permanent researcher in 2015. He further obtained his Habilitation in 2021.
Frédéric Sanchez
CNRS Engineer (IE)
Fred works on the development of new molecular tools for our jellyfish. As a CNRS engineer, he previously focused on plant and algae biology and decided to challenge himself with Clytia and Pelagia.
Bastien Salmon
PhD recently obtained
Bastien studies the molecular structure and development of jellyfish sarcomeres, using Pelagia noctiluca as a main experimental model. He has recently successfully defended his PhD.
Florian Pontheaux
Postdoc
Florian studies the mechanical regulation of Clytia regeneration. Funded by ATIP-Avenir and AFM-Téléthon, Florian is focusing on live imaging approaches.
Meghana GC
PhD student
Clara Deleau
PhD student
Clara started her PhD on myogenesis in Pelagia noctiluca. She is also is developing transgenesic and knock-out methods on our jellyfish models.
Aleksandra Vetrova
Postdoc
Aleksandra studies the coordination of systemic responses in regenerating Clytia. Previously working on canonical Wnt signaling, she is now focusing on the ERK pathway. She is funded by the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale.
Daneil Font
Postdoc
Daniel obtained his PhD from the University of Barcelona (Spain), studying the role of the Hippo pathway in cellular identity, working in the planarian species Schmidtea mediterranea. He studies the physical properties of the Clytia mesoglea during regeneration. Funded by the HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program) group research grant, he specializes in mesoglea extraction and dissecting approaches.
Florian Guillaume
CNRS Research Assistant
Following his Master’s work in the Houliston/Momose lab, Florian recently joined the lab as an Assistant Ingénieur (AI). His position is funded by AFM-Téléthon, and he is currently developing transgenic and knock-out in Clytia
Thomas Gaspar
Master 2 student
Thomas is studying progenitor migration during Clytia medusa regeneration.
Vasilii Sadovin
Master 2 student
Vasilii is studying the evolution of some muscle genes in medusozoans.
- Nikolina Martinčić (Master 2 student 2024)
- Samaël Aupetit (Bachelor student 2024)
- Vita Plaza-Floquet (Master 1 student 2024)
- Chris Latimer (Bachelor Student 2024)
- Manon Boosten (PhD student 2019-2023)
- Alix Decobert (Master 1 student 2023)
- Capucine Le Cam Ligier (Master 2 student 2023)
- Marti Poch (Bachelor student 2023)
- May Line Goëb (Master 1 student 2023)
- Nicolas Schlick (Jellyfish facility technician, 2021-2022)
- Camille Sant (Bioinformatics engineer, 2021-2022)
- Linnea de Waal (Bachelor student, 2022)
- Achille Villeneuve (Bachelor student, 2022)
- Alexandre Jan (Jellyfish facility technician, 2020-2021)