PhD Candidate
Research
I am a French PhD student. I graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris with a Master degree in genetics and a Master degree in knowledge management. I specialized in cellular and molecular genetics by attending the Pasteur courses at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. During my genetics Master program I utilized C.elegans to study aging and proteostasis at both the Prof. Morimoto laboratory, Northwestern University and at the Prof. Dillin laboratory. This gave me a solid expertise on C.elegans techniques and a good knowledge of the aging field particularly neurodegeneration and stress pathways. For my PhD project I decided to work on human embryonic stem cells and cellular reprogramming. My primary goal is to study how stress pathways can affect stemness and modulate differentiation and dedifferentiation.
Publications
Baird, N.A.*, Douglas, P.M.*, Simic, M.S., Grant, A.R., Moresco, J.J., Wolff, S.C., Yates, J.R., Manning, G., and Dillin, A. (2014). HSF-1–mediated cytoskeletal integrity determines thermotolerance and life span. Science 346, 360–363.
Vilchez, D.*, Simic, M.S.*, and Dillin, A. (2014). Proteostasis and aging of stem cells. Trends Cell Biol. 24, 161–170.
*equal contribution