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 joined the team last September, to work on the development of new molecular tools for our jellyfish. Fred, CNRS engineer, has a strong experience of plants and algae biology, and decided to challenge himself with Clytia and Pelagia.
Bastien Salmon
PhD student
Bastien studies the molecular structure and development of jellyfish sarcomeres, using Pelagia noctiluca as a main experimental model.
Florian Pontheaux
Postdoc
Florian studies the mechanical regulation of Clytia regeneration. Funded by ATIP-Avenir, Florian is focusing on live imaging approaches.
Meghana GC
PhD student
Clara Deleau
Engineer (IE)
Clara is developing transgenesic and knock-out methods on our jellyfish models. She will soon start her PhD in the team, focusing on myogenesis in Pelagia noctiluca
Nikolina Martinčić
Master student
Nikolina focuses on the differentiation dynamics of progenitor cells in the blastema of regenerating Clytia. She is enrolled at the University of applied sciences Technikum Wien and joined us throught the Erasmus program.
Samaël Aupetit
Bachelor student
Samaël focuses on stem cells in Clytia medusa during regeneration. Samaël is currently finishing his bachelor at Sorbonne University.
Valentina Ferrari
Visiting PhD student
Valentina is a visiting PhD student from Italy. The aim of her research project is to assess the occurrence and impacts of microplastics in jellyfish. In the team, she is studying the effects of microplastic ingestion in early life stages of Pelagia noctiluca.
- 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)