Dr. Virginie Hamel
Co-group leader - Senior Lecturer
2017
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MINI CV
Since 2021 - Senior Lecturer - Chargée de cours
Since 2015 - Co-group leader, UNIGE
2012-2015 - Senior Scientist at EPFL (Pierre Gonczy's lab)
2005- 2012 - Post-doc at EPFL (Pierre Gonczy's lab)
2004 - PhD at EMBL (Iain Mattaj's lab)
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FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2024-2025 - Fondation Gelbert Grant
2023-2026 - HUG Confirm Grant
2022-2024 - Planetary Biology grant PlanExM - EMBL
2021-2025 - SNSF project grant (with PG)
2022-2025 - ISREC Tandem Grant
2020-2025 - ProVisu grants
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Selected publications
Laporte MH, Gambarotto D., Bertiaux E., Bournonville L., Louvel V., Nunes JM, Borgers S., Hamel V.*, Guichard P.*
Cell - April 2024 -Link
Hinterndorfer K.*, Laporte M.H.*, Mikus F.*, Tafur Petrozzi L., Bourgoint C., Prouteau M., Dey G.*, Loewith R.*, Guichard P.*, Hamel V.*
Journal of Cell Science - Link
Laporte M.H.*, Bouhlel I.B.*, Bertiaux E., Giroud A., Borgers S., Azimzadeh J., Hervé S., Fachinetti D., Conduit P.T., Bornens M., Guichard P.*, Paoletti A.* and Hamel V.*.
EMBO J. September 2022. Link
Van den Hoek H., Klena N., Alvarez G., Jordan MA, Schaffer M., Erdmann PS. Wan WN, Plitzko JN, Baumeister W., Pigino G.*, Hamel V.*, Guichard P.*, Engel BD.*
Science - July 2022. Link
Mercey O., Kostic C, Bertiaux E., Giroud A., Sadian Y., Chang N., Arsenijevic Y., Guichard P. *, Hamel V.*
PLOS Biology. June 2002
Expansion Microscopy provides new insights into the cytoskeleton of malaria parasites including the conservation of a conoid structure. Bertiaux A., Balestra A., Bournonville L., Brochet M. *, Guichard P. *, Hamel V. *
Steib E., Laporte MH, Gambarotto D., Olieric N., Zheng C., Borgers S., Olieric V., Le Guennec M., Koll F., Tassin AM, Steinmetz MO, Guichard P.*, Hamel V.*
eLIFE, September 2020. Link open access - link BioRxiv
A helical inner scaffold provides a structural basis for centriole cohesion. Le Guennec M†, Klena N.†, Gambarotto D.†, Laporte MH †, Tassin AM, Van den Hoek H., Erdmann PS, Schaffer M., Kovacik L., Borgers S., Goldie KN, Stahlberg H., Bornens M., Azimzadeh J., Engel BD#, Hamel V.* and Guichard P.*
Science Advances. Feb 2020 Link open access - Unige press release
Flagellar microtubule doublet assembly in vitro reveals a regulatory role of tubulin C-terminal tails. M. Schmidt-Cernohorska, I. Zhernov, E. Steib, M. Le Guennec1, R. Achek, S. Borgers, D. Demurtas, L. Mouawad, Z. Lansky, V. Hamel* and P. Guichard*.
Imaging cellular ultrastructures using expansion microscopy (U-ExM). Gambarotto D. ##, Zwettler F. U. ##, Schmidt-Cernohorska M. , Fortun D. , Borgers S. , Heine J. , Schloetel J. G. , Reuss M. , Unser M. , Boyden E.S. , Sauer M. *, Hamel V. * and Guichard P.*.