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Principal Investigator

Professor Pierre Magistretti

Vicepresident of Research,
Distinguished Professor, Bioscience

Research Interests: Brain energy metabolism, Neuropsychiatric disorders, Functional brain imaging, Gene expression

Research Scientists

Fathia Ben Rached, PhD

Research Interests: Brain organoids, Neural differentiation, Genomics, Cell culture, Epigenetics, Neural stem cells, Transcriptomics, Malaria

Nadia Steiner, PhD

Research Interests: Lipidomics, Cell culture, Animal research, ANLS, Functional cell imaging

Hubert Fiumelli, PhD

Research Interests: Synaptic plasticity, Brain energy metabolism, Neuro-glial interaction, NMDA receptors, Aerobic glycolysis, Neocortical development

Postdoctoral Fellows

Zulkifal Malik, PhD

Research Interests: Neural stem cells, Neural differentiation, Brain organoids, Cell metabolism, Lactylation, Epigenetics

Gabriel Herrera-López, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Synaptic plasticity, NMDA receptors, Electrophysiology, Astrocyte-Neuron-Lactate shuttle (ANLS), Calcium imaging, Cell excitability

Eleonora Curzi, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Cell culture, Glioblastoma, Electron microscopy, Metabolomics

María Fernanda Veloz-Castillo, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Glycogen, Animal research, Electron microscopy, Virtual Reality, Data visualization, Brain energy metabolism, Memory

Xiaoyan Lin, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Stress, Astrocyte-Neuron-Lactate shuttle (ANLS), Brain energetics, Brain energy metabolism, Astrocytes, Transcriptomics