The research programme on malaria kinomics will be pursued at the Department of Microbiology of Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) by Christian Doerig, who has been appointed Head of this Department form 1st November 2011.  Scientific collaborations that have been established with EPFL laboratories will continue. Prof. Doerig can be reached at christian.doerig@monash.edu

Everyone in the Inserm-EPFL Joint laboratory has found new host laboratories (for the Inserm staff) or new employment (for non-Inserm staff):

Luc Reininger (luc.reininger@inserm.fr) has joined the CNRS USR 3151 lab directed by Sandrine Ruchaud at the Station Biologique de Roscoff  (www.sb-roscoff.fr/usr3151.html),  to work on cell division kinases in metazoans.

Dominique Dorin-Semblat (Dominique.dorin-semblat@inserm.fr) and Jean-Philippe Semblat (jean-philippe.semblat@inserm.fr) are now at the UMR-S 665 (http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/recherche/pagelabos.php?num=930W) at the Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine in Paris, in the Inserm group led by Benoit Gamain working on cytoadherence in Plasmodium falciparum.

Jean Halbert (jean.halbert@epfl.ch) remains in the same building, as he started as a technician in the laboratory of Cathrin Brisken at ISREC (brisken-lab.epfl.ch).

Audrey Sicard (audrey.sicard@epfl.ch) also remains at EPFL, albeit not in a laboratory:  she is now attached to the Safety, Prevention and Health Service of EPFL (http://securite.epfl.ch).

 

Marisa Marciano-Wynn (marisa.marcianowynn@epfl.ch) stays at the Global Health Institute as a secretary to Professors Nicola Harris, Melanie Blokesch and Jacques Fellay.

 

 

Our stay at the Global Health Institute has been nicely productive; see the list of publications, notably our newly accepted paper in Nature Communications that presents a large chunk of data from the Plasmodium reverse genetics that we implemented over the last several years. This list will keep growing as papers from our recent work gets published-watch this space!

 

All members of our team established long-lasting links with colleagues and friends at GHI and elsewhere at EPFL, so even though the lab is formally closed, the story is ongoing.