People

Fanny Cazettes

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Fanny is a principal investigator at CNRS, based in Marseille (France) at the Timone Neuroscience Institute (INT). After earning a degree in engineering in Paris, she joined in 2010 the lab of Antonio Convit at New York University as a research assistant. She continued on to get her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she investigated how the brain of barn owls deals with sensory uncertainty, under the supervision of Jose L. Pena. Fanny moved to Champalimaud Foundation in 2016 for her postdoc in the lab of Zach Mainen. During this time, she also became a member of the International Brain Laboratory.

Astrid Nicolini


Astrid is a research assistant. Born and raised in Lyon, she obtained her baccalaureate in 2017. After two years studying mathematics and physics at Champollion preparatory courses, she joined the biomedical engineering school Institut Supérieur des Biosciences in Paris. For her final internship, she spent six months in Germany working on decoding the mechanisms of speech processing. She obtained her engineering degree in September 2022. 

Antoine Courbi

Antoine is a research assistant. Originally from Orange in the South of France, Antoine earned his baccalaureate in 2019. He then pursued a general engineering degree at the École Polytechnique Féminine (EPF) in Montpellier, specializing in Data Engineering during his final two years. His specialization focused on data science, data analysis, and machine learning. Antoine gained international experience through a five-month internship in Germany, followed by a six-month internship at Urbasolar, focusing on renewable energy. He is strongly motivated to contribute to impactful fields such as healthcare, clean energy, and neuroscience. 

Carole Marchese

Carole is a research assistant. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Cellular Biology and Physiology of Organisms in 2019 and a Master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2021, both from the University of Strasbourg, France. After graduating, she joined the "Sleep, Clock, Light, and Neuropsychiatry" research team at the Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (INCI) in Strasbourg. Her research focused on the role of the circadian molecular clock in the neurobiology and treatment of major depressive disorder using a mouse model of chronic despair. This work led to the publication of an article in Nature Communications in 2024. She then joined the "Neuronal Signaling and Genetic Regulation" team at the Institute of Biology Paris-Seine (IBPS) in Paris, where she conducted pre-incubation assays to investigate the antidepressant effects of a peptide targeting the MAPK-ERK pathway in a mouse model of chronic social defeat stress. Carole aspires to pursue a PhD to further her expertise in neuroscience.

Saleha Siddiqui

Saleha is research assistant bridging molecular biology and computational research. Born and raised in India, she holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry (2021) and a master's degree in biotechnology (2023). For her master's dissertation, she researched Alzheimer's disease using molecular docking and simulation studies. Her research skills were further refined during research assistantships at TeraBundle Analytics and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Her participation in Neuromatch Academy solidified her move into computational neuroscience, deepening her passion for exploring brain function through advanced methods and interdisciplinary approaches. 

Collaborators

Zach Mainen - Systems Neuroscience

Alfonso Renart - Circuit Dynamics & Computation

Luca Mazzucato - Computational Neuroscience Lab

Davide Reato - NeuroTechnology

Alumni

Katlyn Jumel

 Research Assistant

2023-2024

Océane Plessis

 Research Assistant

2024

Emma  Coudray

 Research Assistant

2023-2024

Behnaz Namdarzadeh

 Research Assistant

2023

Pierre   Lemaire

 Research Assistant

2023