EDUCATION Currently: Graduate student at Columbia University
September 2009-2011 Research Assistant, The Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (head: Dr. Paul Greengard) Main project: “effects of p11 knock-out in a mouse model of depression” Electrophysiology (whole-cell patch clamp), behavior (social defeat, open field test, tail suspension test, forced swim test), Western blotting, qPCR, transgenic mouse colonies handling (single to triple knock-out)
2003 - 2008 MSc, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland Final master grade: 5.52 / 6
1999 - 2003 Federal maturity (biology - chemistry and advanced mathematics), Fribourg, Switzerland