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I'm a synthetic immunologist developing cell-based delivery platforms for brain diseases. My long-term goal is to address the major limitations for central nervous system (CNS)-related disorders. I started studying protein homeostasis during my undergraduate work, manipulating the cell fate through the prism of protein homeostasis during my doctoral work in Dr. Andrew Dillin's lab at UC Berkeley and now into engineering new functions in cells to treat CNS disorders in Dr. Wendell Lim's lab at UCSF such as brain cancers and neuro-immunological disorders.I graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris with a Master degree in genetics and a Master degree in knowledge management. I specialized in cellular and molecular genetics by attending the Pasteur courses at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. During my genetics Master program I utilized C.elegans to study aging and proteostasis at both the Prof. Morimoto laboratory, Northwestern University and at the Prof. Dillin laboratory. This gave me a solid expertise on C.elegans techniques and a good knowledge of the aging field particularly neurodegeneration and stress pathways. For my PhD project I decided to work on human embryonic stem cells and cellular reprogramming. My primary goal was to study how stress pathways can affect stemness and modulate differentiation and dedifferentiation. During my postdoctoral training, I embarked in the field of synthetic biology to explore new avenues to treat CNS-related disorders

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