Invited lecturers
The summer school participants will meet some of the leaders in the field and will be provided with an overview of biosensor applications, mainly in a neurobiological context. The following speakers have confirmed their participation:
Nicolas Gervasi (Fer à Moulin Institute, Paris)
Nicolas Gervasi is a biomedical expert in Neuroscience & Behavior and in Biology & Biochemistry. He is currently part of the Neurotransmission and signaling research team, at the Fer à Moulin Institute.
Oliver Griesbeck (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich)
Oliver Griesbeck is the creator of a series of novel FRET biosensors for calcium imaging in neurons. He leads a research group named Tools for bio-imaging at the MPI of Neurobiology in Munich, Germany.
Régine Hepp (Institute of Biology Paris-Seine, Paris)
Régine Hepp is part of the Cortical Network and Neurovascular Coupling research team and studies neuromodulation in the brain.
Isabelle Limon (Institute of Biology Paris-Seine, Paris)
Isabelle Limon leads the Phenotypic control of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) research team at the IBPS and studies the role of VSMC phenotypic switching in atherosclerosis.
Fabienne Mérola (Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Orsay)
Fabienne Mérola is a specialist in the photophysics of GFP and FRET applications and works at the Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, in Orsay, France.
Franck Riquet (Ghent University, Ghent)
Franck Riquet is an expert in the development of kinase biosensors and is part of the Molecular signaling and cell death team at the Inflammation Research Center (IRC), a department of the Ghent University.
Grégoire Vandecasteele (Paris-XI University, Orsay)
Grégoire Vandecasteele leads the Signaling of cyclic nucleotides and cardiovascular physiopathology team at the University Paris-XI, in Orsay, France.
François Waharte (Curie Institute, Paris)
François Waharte is a member of the Bioimaging Cell & Tissue Core facility of the Curie Institute and studies interactions and dynamics of molecules in biological cells using fluorescence.
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