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Claudia Bonfio
Group Leader
Biography
I was born in Siena, a beautiful medieval city in Tuscany, mostly known for the wine produced in the surroundings. I completed my BSc and MSc studies in Chemistry and my PhD in Biomolecular Sciences in late 2017, working on the origin and catalytic activity of ancient proteins. Later, as a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow, I joined the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where I looked into the chemical origin of modern cells. After a short stay at the University of Cambridge as an 1851 Research Fellow, exploring prebiotic membrane signalling, ISIS welcomed me to start my research group. We are currently working on the design and development of functional primitive cells capable of Darwinian evolution.
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Team
Claire Menouna Ekani
Administrative assistant
Maiia Aleksandrova
PhD Student
prebiotic lipid synthesis
Yuhan Li
PhD Student
primitive cells
Fatma Mihoubi
PhD Student
primitive cells
David Russell
Postdoc
prebiotic lipid synthesis
Fidan Rahmatova
PhD Student
lipid-nucleotide conjugates
Krishnakavya Thaipuraayil-Madanan
PhD Student
prebiotic lipid synthesis
Malak Jaber
MSc student
prebiotic lipid synthesis
Lucile Schnoebelen
MSc student
primitive cells
Karina Nakashima
Rubicon Fellow
coacervate-liposome interactions
Alumni
Elif Su Özkök, BSc student, Summer Internship (Bilkent University), 2023
Jiashu Su, BSc student, Summer Internship (University of Strasbourg), 2023
Filippo Ruggiero, MSc student (University of Rome Tor Vergata), 2023
Valeria Boide-Trujillo, MSc student (University of Strasbourg), 2023 – now PhD student, University of Strasbourg
Sophia Seredyuk, BSc student, Summer Internship (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), 2022
Sergiu Bicic, MSc student (University of Strasbourg), 2022 – now PhD student, Technical University Berlin
Jordan Wasnaire, Erasmus+ student (KU Leuven), 2022 – now PhD student, Université de Moncton