Anne Bissay

Anne Bissay
Visiting Student
 
Anne is a French student who pursued neuroscience at the Swiss Federal School of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering and is currently pursuing a master’s in experimental and computational neuroscience. Her research interest primarily focuses on studying the development of neurodegenerative disorders, with a specific interest in epigenetic mechanisms.
She has had the opportunity to work on early-life stress rat or mouse models at the EPFL Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics (Sandi lab), analyzing effects on brain function and behavior, with a focus on depressive-like behavior, through two different projects. Additionally, she studied gene interactions at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction in the EPFL Laboratory of Neural Genetics and Disease (McCabe lab) during an academic semester.
Anne is currently conducting her master’s thesis at MIT in the Tsai lab, where she is investigating the effect of stress on Alzheimer’s Disease mouse models. She is set to graduate in October 2024 and is eager to pursue a PhD in the field of neuroscience.