Guest speakers
We are pleased to welcome Xavier Saulquin who is Professor. He is responsible for the license in life science and Professor of immunology in the faculty of sciences and techniques of Nantes. He is a researcher at the Center of Research in Oncology and Immunology Nantes-Angers (CRCINA) where he is in charge of the "Immunobiology of Human αβ and γδ T cells and Immunotherapeutic" group. His areas of research are selection and the responsiveness of human iNKT cells and the development of human monoclonal antibodies. At the 8th JED it will present the latest publication of his team: "Antigen-specific single B cell sorting and expression-cloning from immunoglobulin humanized rats: a rapid and versatile method for the generation of high affinity and discriminative human monoclonal antibodies".
Dr Orane Guillaume-Gentil is a researcher in the department of Biology of The Institute of Zurich. Her recent work has been focused on Fluid Force Microscopy, a technique for single-cell analysis in a quantitative, non-invasive manner. FluidFM uses a micropipette whose dimensions are those of an individual cell. This approach led her and her co-workers to come up with a tunable single-cell extraction for the analysis of its components at a molecular level. The heterogeneity found in cells can be analyzed in real-time when the technique is coupled with analytical biochemistry methods such as mass spectrometry. This powerful approach allowed them to study the effects of treatements or uses of certain molecules on cells in real-time, regarding genome expression, metabolism changes, or signaling and communication pathways between cells.
We are pleased to welcome Pierre-Yves Musso here today. He’s a post doc fellow in the university of british Columbia in Vancouver. After his master in Toulouse, he did his PhD with Thomas Preat in ESPCI Paris, CNRS, where he studied appetitive long-term memory in drosophila, and its underlying neural mechanisms. He learnt a set of techniques designed to manipulate and record living neural networks and used those techniques to study how food value and taste are linked with memory to allow animals to predict the benefits and costs of a given food source. After a first Post doc experience in Paris and in Toulouse where he perfected those techniques, in particular in vivo calcium imaging, he went to Vancouver where he is carrying on his work, enriched with timely techniques such as optogenetics, which is a game changing way to activate neurons with light. He will now tell you how to go from behaviour to neural networks using the mentioned techniques along with genetic tools to access drosophila brain