Nathalie Tichy

PhD Student

Nathalie Tichy

Office Y13-K-36

Phone (office): +41 44 635 31 88

Phone (lab): +41 44 635 44 39

Nathalie was born in Bogota, Colombia but grew up in Vienna, Austria. She received her bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from the University of Vienna, where she generated cardiac embryoids from murine cardiac cells to investigate the influence of the glycoprotein SPARC on their differentiation and self-renewal abilities in the lab of Prof. Mag. Dr. Georg Weitzer. In 2019, she moved to London to complete her master studies in biomedical and molecular sciences research at King’s College London. Focusing on the regulatory mechanisms of Rbfox-1 and its role in the nociceptive pain pathway, she established a novel detection assay for behavioural withdrawal responses in adult Drosophila melanogaster in the lab of Dr. Olga Baron. In 2021 she joined Prof. Rolf Zeller’s group as a research assistant at the University of Basel, where she was involved in several projects aiming to elucidate the gene regulatory networks driving vertebrate limb bud organogenesis. In October 2023 she started at the Life Science Zurich Graduate School as a PhD student in the group of Francesca Peri at the University of Zurich.
In her free time, Nathalie enjoys doing yoga, kickboxing, playing the piano, baking and travelling.