Learn to Have an Individual Fellowship - Part 2

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Julia Schaeffer

Julia Schaeffer obtained her PhD in 2018 from the University of Cambridge (UK), under the supervision of Roger Keynes, studying axon guidance mechanisms for spinal nerve patterning during embryogenesis. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences, working across the teams of Homaira Nawabi and Stéphane Belin on axon regeneration in the adult visual system. In November 2024, she launched her own research team, "Axon regulation and regrowth," at the Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM), supported by the ATIP-Avenir programme, investigating the molecular mechanisms of local protein synthesis in injured and regenerating axons. In 2024, she received the Prix des Grandes Avancées Françaises en Biologie from the French Académie des Sciences for this work.

From neuronal cell organization to axon regeneration and circuit reconnection

Felix Rico

Julia Schaeffer obtained her PhD in 2018 from the University of Cambridge (UK), under the supervision of Roger Keynes, studying axon guidance mechanisms for spinal nerve patterning during embryogenesis. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences, working across the teams of Homaira Nawabi and Stéphane Belin on axon regeneration in the adult visual system. In November 2024, she launched her own research team, "Axon regulation and regrowth," at the Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM), supported by the ATIP-Avenir programme, investigating the molecular mechanisms of local protein synthesis in injured and regenerating axons. In 2024, she received the Prix des Grandes Avancées Françaises en Biologie from the French Académie des Sciences for this work.

From neuronal cell organization to axon regeneration and circuit reconnection

Claire Valotteau

Claire Valotteau is a CNRS Research Director and team leader of the "Biophysics of Circulating Tumor Cells" group at the Laboratoire Adhésion et Inflammation (LAI, Inserm/CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université). Trained as a materials physicist, she completed her PhD on the development of antimicrobial surfaces, studying bacteria–material interactions through microscopy and spectroscopy, before two postdoctoral fellowships focused first on bacterial pathogen interactions during early infection, then on the biophysical properties of cancer cells. Since receiving an ATIP-Avenir grant in 2020, her group has used atomic force microscopy and other biophysical tools to probe the mechanical and adhesive properties of tumor cells — from single molecules to cell clusters — to understand how these forces drive the spread of metastases.

Why is a tumor stiffer than the tissue around it, when its individual cells are actually softer?

Bianca Habermann

Bianca Habermann is a CNRS Research Director and Group Leader of the Computational Biology group at the Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM), Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS, and a member of CENTURI. She studied Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Vienna, earning her PhD in the lab of Hartmut Beug at the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) on gene expression profiling of erythroid cells. She then led bioinformatics services and research groups at several Max Planck Institutes in Germany — Dresden, Cologne, and Martinsried — before joining the IBDM in 2016 as CNRS Research Director. Her group combines computational and mathematical approaches, in close collaboration with experimental partners, to understand how mitochondria adapt their metabolism to the needs of the cells and tissues around them.

How do mitochondria know what a cell needs — and how do they adapt to give it?

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