Profile

I’m from Normandy in France. It’s in the North-West of France. I’ve met my boyfriend there and now we are living in Dublin to finish our education and to learn English (which wasn’t my strength at all at school). I started a PhD studentship in April 2019. As my grand-mothers and my mother, I like to cook and bake, my speciality is crepes! I also enjoy read a book or watch Disney movies (Mulan is the best one!). I like to visit and discover new thing, for that, I’ll hike, travel or visit a museum. I am a big fan of architecture and always look at it wherever I am.

I am studying Temporal Lobe Epilepsy which correspond to Epilepsy located in the area of the brain near the temple. This type of Epilepsy involves a structure called hippocampus (called like that because of its shape) which is involved in learning and memory. More precisely, my work focuses on changes in RNA in Epilepsy. To be functional, your cells transform your DNA in RNA and then in proteins. In hippocampus of Epileptic patient, there may be change on the RNA which doesn’t allow a correct transformation to proteins and that could be targeted by a new drug to treat Epilepsy.

I wake up and have breakfast (tea, cereals with milk). I usually start to work around 8am. My work is rythms by my experiments. The first thing I do is to start them. If there is a waiting time, I get a coffee (with a lot of milk!) or have lunch if it is lunch time, talk with my colleagues or analyse data from a previous experiments. During the afternoon, I continue my experiment or I analyse my data until 5 or 6pm. I’ll go home, cook, have dinner around 7 and usually watch a movie before to go to bed.