Julie Gavard
CNRS researcher
Hometown: Pau (South France)
Favorite song: life on Mars? (David Bowie)
Favorite movie: Philadelphia
Favorite experiment: permeability assays
Non-scientific activity: feeding animals in the zoo
Dream benchmate: Severus Snape
One item from Bucket list: sabbatical at the Serengeti
Scientific interest: cell biology behind cancer and vascular cells
Current research interests: adhesion, interaction, traffic, signaling, and everything that is illuminated
Nicolas Bidère
INSERM researcher
Hometown: Vernon (Normandy)
Favorite song: just (Radiohead)
Favorite movie: life aquatic with Steve Zissou
Favorite experiment: immunoprecipitation
Non-scientific activity: growing papyruses
Dream benchmate: Bill Murray
One item from Bucket list: aloha ... Hawaii
Scientific interest: signaling, signaling, signaling!
Current research interests: better understand how discrete biochemical reactions dictate cell fate
Kilian Trillet
INSERM engineer
Hometown: Quimper (Brittany)
Favorite song: toi (Worakls)
Favorite movie: fear and loathing in Vegas
Favorite experiment: flow cytometry
Non-scientific activity: playing piano
Dream benchmate: Laura Laune
One item from Bucket list: fill up my e-labbook
Scientific interest: cancer research, cell & molecular biology, biochemistry, signaling, tumor niches
Current research interests: role of Apelin/APLNR signaling pathway and GSC stemness maintenance
Laëtitia Guével
Univ Nantes associate professor
Hometown: Ile d'Arz (Brittany)
Favorite song: mutate (Jeanne added)
Favorite movie: the piano
Favorite experiment: invention and improving protocols
Non-scientific activity: sailing, paddle, kite
Dream Benchmate: Coluche
One item from Bucket list: sailing around the world with my family
Scientific interest: clinical application of research
Current research interests: biomarkers, extracellular vesicles & therapy
Gwennan André-Grégoire
ICO researcher
Hometown: Saint-Brieuc (Brittany)
Favorite song: stairway to heaven (Led Zeppelin)
Favorite movie: cast away
Favorite experiment: in vivo bioluminescence
Non-scientific activity: photography
Dream benchmate: Barack Obama
One item from Bucket list: swimming with manta ray
Scientific interest: how cells can behave together to create a (healthy) human being
Current research interests: extracellular vesicles in glioblastoma
Tiphaine Douanne
Post-doc
Hometown: Paris (France)
Favorite song: this time tomorrow (The Kinks)
Favorite movie: the royal Tenenbaums
Favorite experiment: western-blot
Non-scientific activity: reading, hiking
Dream benchmate: the tenth doctor
One item from Bucket list: travel around New-Zealand, have a pint at the green dragon inn
Scientific interest: cell biology
Current research interests: dissecting the signaling pathways that control cell fate
Quentin Roux
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Post-doc
Hometown: Nantes (Pays de la Loire)
Favorite song: star dance (John Ford)
Favorite movie: old boy
Favorite experiment: super resolution microscopy
Non-scientific activity: playing music with friends
Dream benchmate: my brother
One item from Bucket list: touring on a motorcycle
Scientific interest: cell biology, cell to cell communications and their deregulations in cancer
Current research interests: how brain tumors arise and progress, cancer stem cell niches and communication by extracellular vesicles
Jane Jardine
Post-doc
Hometown: Perpignan (South France)
Favorite song: casio (Jungle)
Favorite movie: howl's moving castle
Favorite experiment: immunofluorescence
Non-scientificaactivity: painting
Dream benchmate: Ricky Gervais
One item from Bucket list: travel the world
Scientific interest: unravelling ubiquitin pathways underlying neurological disorders
Current research interests: analysis of tumor-derived vesicles and the cGAS pathway
Lais Brigliadori Fugio
Post-doc
Hometown: Ribeirão Preto (Brazil)
Favorite song: all these things that I've done (The Killers)
Favorite movie: mulan
Favorite experiment: immunofluorescence
Non-scientific activity: reading
Dream benchmate: Yoda
One item from Bucket list: speak French fluently
Scientific interest: cell biology, cancer stem cells, cellular reprogramming
Current research interests: cell signaling in glioblastoma
Yanis Macé
PhD student
Hometown: Nantes (Pays-de-la-Loire)
Favorite song: Ciel noir (Nekfeu)
Favorite movie: good will hunting
Favorite experiment: immunoprecipitation
Non-scientific activity: football
Dream benchmate: Walter White
One item from Bucket list: travel the world
Scientific interest: cell signaling and post-translational modifications
Current research interests: post-translational modifications & cell death
Marine Tarrillon
PhD student
Hometown: Lyon (Rhone-Alpes)
Favorite song: calm down (Rema)
Favorite movie: Stallion of the Cimarron
Favorite experiment: micropatterning
Non-scientific activity: collecting dinosaur fossils
Dream benchmate: Nigel Marven
One item from Bucket list: herding cattle on horseback on a ranch in Montana
Scientific interest: tumor escape mechanism, signaling, and innovative microscopy techniques
Current research interests: regulation of the cGAS-STING pathway
Margaux Le Guyon
PhD student
Hometown: Angers (Pays-de-la-Loire)
Favorite song: our own way (Klaas)
Favorite movie: Sing / Oppenheimer
Favorite experiment: drug treatment and cell viability assays
Non-scientific activity: badminton
Dream benchmate: my best friend
One item from Bucket list: to participate to the French badminton championship
Scientific interest: kinases in glioblastoma lysosomal vulnerabilities
Current research interests: provide proof-of-concepts of efficient pharmacological Kinase targeting
Laura Merlet
PhD student
Hometown: Angouleme (Charente)
Favorite song: boogie wonderland (Earth, Wind & Fire)
Favorite movie: big fish
Favorite experiment: immunofluorescence
Non-scientific activity: tennis, paddle
Dream benchmate: Alain Chabat
One item from Bucket list: go on a road trip around the world
Scientific interest: cell biology and signaling in cancer
Current research interests: mechanisms involved in cell-to-cell communication in cancer stem-like cells
Mehdi Tazi
Engineer
Hometown: Casablanca (Morocco)
Favorite song: what's up (4 non blondes)
Favorite movie: pay it forward
Favorite experiment: immunofluorescence
Non-scientific activity: yoga, basketball
Dream benchmate: Galileo Galilei
One item from Bucket list: visit Costa Rica
Scientific interest: cell biology
Current research interests: extracellular vesicles
Rosalie Moreau
Engineer
Hometown: Nantes (Pays-de-la-Loire)
Favorite song: enjoy the silence (Depeche Mode)
Favorite movie: the curious case oF Benjamin Button
Favorite experiment: cytometry for EVs
Non-scientific activity: cooking
Dream benchmate: Pedro Pascal
One item from Bucket list: travel to Japan
Scientific interest: EVs and biomakers
Current research interests: EVs, metastatic breast cancer