Current Team Members
NICKNAME:
Vivi
YEAR JOINED EP:
2017
UNDERGRAD/ALMA MATER:
UniGe/UniL
HOMETOWN:
Conthey, VS, Switzerland
HOBBIES:
Taking things apart and/or (re)building them… When possible… And also, any job with power tools, from drills to chainsaws 🙂
FAVORITE DRINK:
Gin and tonic. No, sorry, Water ! I meant water !
FAVORITE RESTAURANT:
Home
SPECIAL POWER:
I’m a listener
SECRET TALENT:
Well, it IS secret, isn’t it ?
QUOTE:
”The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views.”
The Fourth Doctor, The Face Of Evil (1977)
WHAT YOU ARE WORKING ON:
Trying to extract the quintessential information hidden in high throughput sequencing data. RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, well, ANY-seq, are my daily companions
NICKNAME:
(for my friends only)
YEAR JOINED EP:
2015
UNDERGRAD/ALMA MATER:
EPFL – Lausanne – SWITZERLAND
HOMETOWN:
Valencia – VENEZUELA
HOBBIES:
Going to the cinema, singing
FAVORITE DRINK:
CAHIPIRINA !!!
FAVORITE RESTAURANT:
Hoa Sen (Vietnamese restaurant)
SPECIAL POWER:
one day you’ll find out…
SECRET TALENT:
[ ]
QUOTE:
“Don’t quote me, please”
WHAT YOU ARE WORKING ON:
Uncovering the mechanisms behind Desmoplastic small round cell tumors (DSRCT)
NICKNAME:
San
YEAR JOINED EP:
Oct 2018
POSITION:
Post-Doc
UNDERGRAD/ALMA MATER:
Bachelor’s – Vellore Institute of Technology, Master’s – University of Madras
HOMETOWN:
Arcot, Tamilnadu, India
HOBBIES:
Watching movies, Tennis, Fitness and cooking (Now nothing, busy with beautiful Twin boys)
FAVORITE DRINK:
Beer
FAVORITE RESTAURANT:
Which serves Good food
SPECIAL POWER:
I am trying to find it
SECRET TALENT:
No idea
QUOTE:
Let’s mind our own business
WHAT YOU ARE WORKING ON:
‘Epigenetic determinants of malignancy in Neuroblastoma’.
NICKNAME:
Sanal
YEAR JOINED EP:
2016
UNDERGRAD/ALMA MATER:
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; RGCB, University of Kerala, India
HOMETOWN:
Trivandrum, India
HOBBIES:
Hiking, Trekking, exploring Swiss Alps and Lakes
FAVORITE DRINK:
BEER
FAVORITE RESTAURANT:
Chez Xu
SPECIAL POWER:
To read between the lines
SECRET TALENT:
Cooking
QUOTE:
“As you think, so you are”
The Buddha
WHAT YOU ARE WORKING ON:
Epigenetics and 3-Dimensional Genomics