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Welcome to Flavie Simon who joined our Research Unit on industrial project. Flavie is graduated of the University of Toulouse, she holds a Master’s degree (M2) in Biotechnology, specializing in Microbiology, with a focus on Biotechnology and Microorganism Diagnostics. As part of her degree, she completed an internship investigating the effects of the supernatant and extracellular vesicles of health-promoting bacteria on the intestinal immune response. She joined the Unit as a Research Engineer in Microbiology under the supervision of Odile.

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 dorsal raphe nucleus serotonergic projections to the hypothalamus in zebrafish.