BARANOV LAB
Summer School 2025
Applications opening this february!
About summer school
We are always happy to see students in our lab. Over the past years, the experience of summers filled with initiative and excited students, brought us to the idea of creating the summer school. During the school period, each student will be assigned to a mentor to develop and work on his own project in regenerative medicine, retinal cell biology and development, advanced transcriptomics, transplantation, and functional imaging of the retinal neurons on a single cell level.
5 students
7 projects
2 publications
Tracks and supervisors
Scientific Associate
Lead Bioinformatician
Ekaterina Ivleva
Emil Kriukov
Integrated multi-omics analysis
We perform deep advanced analysis of single-cell RNA-, ATAC-, ChIP-, VDJ-, and spatial-seq data, focusing on cell specification, maturation, and cell-to-cell communication in disease and regeneration. Species include humans, dogs, mice, and axolotl. The ultimate goal is to create a “digital eye” - in silico platform to model, explore and predict cell behavior in changing ecosystem.
Postdoctoral fellow, MD
Nasrin Refaian
Microscopy and cell culture
We employ automation, artificial intelligence, and quantitative strategies to produce retinal and other organoids from human, tree shrew, and mouse stem cells. We are particularly interested in using this fascinating model to test therapies, study cell-cell interaction, model diseases, such as Alzheimer's, LHON, NAION, and glaucoma.
Call for applications
Decision processing
End of the call
How to apply
Final decisions
Interviews
Candidates selection
What you get
What we require
Coding skills
Skills
Stipend to cover the expenses
Research conference participation*
Lectures from...
Publication*
R and Python if you want to participate in bioinformatics track.
Get familiar and master the methods of the track.
We accept the candidates at any career: from school to postdoctorate.
Any career stage
Basic biology knowledge
Motivation and dedication
Summer school alumni
  • Everett Labrecque
    Internship Period: 2024-2025
    Supervisor: Emil Kriukov
    Project: Single-cell atlas of retinal organoids
    Project results
  • Sthavir Vinjamuri
    Internship Period: 2024-2025
    Supervisor: Emil Kriukov
    Project: Single-cell RNA-seq mouse fetal retina atlas
    Project results
  • Zack Chou
    Internship Period: 2024-2025
    Supervisor: Jonathan Soucy
    Project: Image Analysis Pipeline for Tracking Donor Neurons in the Mouse Retina
    Project results
  • Aubin Mutschler
    Internship Period: 2024
    Supervisor: Jonathan Soucy
    Project: Optimizing Tissue Clearing Protocols in Whole-Mount Mouse Retinas
    Project results
  • Sergio Pestun
    Internship Period: 2023
    Supervisor: Emil Kriukov
    Project: High-throughput cell-cell interactions analysis in single-cell RNA-seq data
    Project results
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