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Agathe Debruille holds a thesis in Veterinary Medicine and joined Phan in September 2026 to carry out her doctoral thesis. She is studying omega-3 fatty acid supplementation in breeding bitches and its impact on puppy development. The main objective is to is to determine whether puppies whose mothers were fed a supplemented diet experience less anxiety, have better cognitive abilities and are less prone to illness during the pre-weaning period (0–2 months). Agathe’s PhD thesis is co-supervised by Gwenola Le Dréan at PhAN and Blandine Lieubeau at IECN (INRAE-ONIRIS). Alongside her PhD, Agathe teaches a course on the nutrition of domestic carnivores at Oniris and carries out veterinary nutrition consultations at the CHUV.

Ninon Laulom started her PhD on October 1st 2026 at the UMR PhAN, under the supervision of Valérie Amarger and Pieter Vancamp. Her project investigates the impact of amino acid deficiency during gestation and the preventive effect of nutritional supplementation on cell fate reprogramming in the fetal rat hypothalamus. She holds a Master's degree in Integrative Biology and Physiology, Neurosciences track from Sorbonne Université. She completed her M2 internship at the University of Copenhagen, where she studied the role of doors median raphe serotonergic projections to the hypothalamus in zebrafish.

On September 25, 2026, Francisca NGENDA KABOMBO, Ph.D. student at the PhAN Joint Research Unit, presented her research at the annual EMBA (European Milk Bank Association) conference held in Milan (Italy). This was an opportunity to highlight the results of her surveys on breastfeeding practices in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. This work is being conducted as part of the TSARA program, a partnership between research and training institutions in Africa and Europe (INRAE and CIRAD).