After 5 months in Poul Henning Jensen’s lab as a Research Assistant Anissa Hammi decided to continue her work as a PhD student starting August 1st.

Her project will focus on the investigation of the downstream processes of the interaction between alpha-synuclein aggregates, one of the main features, and believed to be the cause, of Parkinson’s disease, and the calcium pump SERCA.The protein alpha-synuclein, although important for normal neuronal functions in its monomeric form, aggregates in pathological conditions and affects certain cellular processes like calcium homeostasis. She will study the time-course of alpha-synuclein aggregation and its interaction with SERCA as well as the affected downstream processes of these phenomena, in human iPSCs-derived neurons.

Anissa did her bachelor and master at EPFL, the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne, in Life Sciences Engineering including a research stay at Columbia University, New York City.

We are happy to keep Anissa as part of DANDRITE!