A portrait of our newly minted IMCBio PhD researchers
This week we have the portraits of Meilin, from China, and Horia, from France.
Meilin An – PhD Student – Annick Dejaegere’s team, IGBMC
Meilin An is from China. She got her bachelor’s degree in Physical Chemistry and her Master’s degree in Chemoinformatics at the University of Strasbourg.
She is currently pursuing her first year of PhD in the team “Chemical Biophysics of Transcriptional Signaling”, supervised by Dr. Roland Stote and Professeur Annick Dejaegere.
On the reason for choosing IGBMC/IMCBio for his PhD, Meilin says: “I chose IMCBio because it has a strong research focus on molecular and cellular biology and uses an interdisciplinary approach: which is important for me, because I have a strong background in chemistry and informatics.” She wants to use her knowledge and skills to contribute to the field of structural biology and cancer treatment.
Horia Boursas – PhD Student – Jocelyn Laporte’s team, IGBMC
Horia was born and raised in Nancy (France) and did most of her education there. She has a bachelor in biochemistry and molecular biology as well as a bachelor in applied foreign languages in English and Arabic, both from Université de Lorraine.
She recently graduated with a master’s degree in biotechnologies and molecular engineering from the same university.
During her academic path, she had the opportunity to work and study abroad in the UK, Canada and Germany. She has worked on various topics like synthetic biology applied to bacterial quorum sensing, caracterization of rhumatoid arthritis and engineering of light-sensitive human ion channels.
Her project aims to identify and validate novel genes involved in muscle disease.
Horia chose the IMCBio program “thanks to the quality of the research projects and institutions, in a field I am highly interested to: biomedicine. The international environment was also appealing to me.”
During her spare time, she enjoys cooking, baking, crochet and other crafty activities.
