22/10/2025 We are proud to share that Prof. Kristina Schoonjans has been featured in the EASD/EFSD Research Portrait series, which highlights outstanding researchers advancing the field of diabetes and metabolic research. The portrait offers insights into her pioneering work on nuclear receptor signaling and hepatic metabolism. You can read and share the feature on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Facebook.
08/09/2025 We are happy to welcome Aleksandar Mihaylov to our team as a new Assistant Étudiant (AE)! We are looking forward to his support and participation in our research activities. Welcome, Aleksandar!
08/09/2025 We are very pleased to welcome Emilie Monnet for her EPFL Laboratory Immersion! We are excited to accompany her during this hands-on experience in research. Welcome, Emilie!
01/09/2025 We are thrilled to welcome Elliot Carles (UTC) as a Master’s intern (SAC program)! We look forward to his energy and insights enriching our projects. Welcome, Elliot!
08/07/2025 We are delighted to welcome Romane Brach to our team for her EPFL Summer Internship! Welcome aboard, Romane!
01/07/2025 We are excited to welcome Pratik Kulkarni as a Master’s intern (SAC program)! We look forward to his contributions and enthusiasm during his time with us. Welcome, Pratik!
04/03/2025 Thrilled to share our latest publication in EMBO Molecular Medicine! We’ve shown that enhancing 7α-dehydroxylated bile acid production through colonization with Clostridium scindens significantly promotes intestinal epithelial regeneration and mucosal healing in ulcerative colitis. Congratulations to the team!
20/11/2024 Excited to share that our lab’s latest study is now published in Metabolism! The work uncovers how hepatic and systemic phenotypes associated with Slc25a47-Wars1 locus recombination in hepatocytes are predominantly driven by Wars1, shedding light on the critical roles of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in metabolic and mitochondrial homeostasis. Congratulations to Francesca Pontanari and Hadrien Demagny!
21/10/2024 The upcoming EMBO Workshop on Metabolic Diseases is just around the corner! Don’t miss out—find more details here!
30/08/2024 Congratulations to Francesca Pontanari on successfully defending her thesis today! We are proud to celebrate her achievement. Welcome to the ranks, Dr. Pontanari!
01/07/2024 We are excited to welcome Lucie Plantade to our team as our new laboratory assistant! We look forward to her contributions and are thrilled to have her join us on our research journey. Welcome, Lucie!
09/10/2023 A very warm welcome to Mafalda Arnaud who will join our lab as a lab immersion trainee! Welcome to the team!
16/08/2023 Today, we welcome a new Master student in the lab! Welcome to Lucie Le Barbenchon!
06/03/2023 Today, Ece Yildiz published a new study in eLife describing the role of hepatic lipid overload in biliary epithelial cell activation. Congratulations Ece!
01/10/2022 Today, our lab received a prestigious SNSF grant. Congratulations to the whole team!
15/09/2022 Today we welcome a new Ph.D. student to our team. A very warm welcome to Adrien Faure who will be working on liver intermediary metabolism!
12/09/2022 Today our lab publishes a new study in Cell Metabolism describing how genetics and diet control bile acid homeostasis. Congratulations to Hao Li and Alessia Perino. The data can be explored through a new app at: http://systems-genetics.org/BXD_BA
26/08/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Nadia Bresciani who brilliantly defended her thesis today!
14/06/2022 Today Nadia Bresciani and Hadrien Demagny publish a new study in which they reveal the fundamental role of the Slc25a47 locus in hepatic metabolism. This work was published in the Journal of Hepatology.
27/03/2022 Today a review article is published by @SchoonjansLab in Nature metabolism about the role of bile acid signaling in the regulation of energy homeostasis. We describe the history of bile acids and their function as metabolic gatekeepers through the activation of TGR5 and FXR. Congrats to Alessia Perino!
20/01/2022 Today, we welcome a new postdoc in our lab. A very warm welcome to Sulagna Mukherjee!
17/09/2020 We are now live on Twitter! Follow us @SchoonjansLab
17/09/2020Congratulations to Giovanni Sorrentino who managed to publish two exciting papers in 2020, despite the COVID! His first paper describes how mechano-modulatory synthetic niches can help to derive liver organoids. The second paper explains how bile acids promote regeneration of the intestinal epithelium via activation of TGR5 in intestinal stem cells.
01/03/2020 2020 is starting very well for the Schoonjans lab as our team was just awarded, together with Prof. Matthias Lutolf, a Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Foundation grant in the fields of metabolism and nutrition.
01/10/2019 The Schoonjans lab obtained a highly competitive SNSF grant to study the role of the bile acid receptor TGR5 in stem cells.
