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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Celebrating the many cultures and cuisines that represent our group in beautiful Lausanne 🇨🇭- an amazing international lab dinner with delicious food prepared from around the world! Representing a truly international team of scientists 🙌 🧪🔬 🇨🇭🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇪🇬🇳🇱🇮🇳🇵🇭🇩🇪🇮🇪

Joyce lab members, with food prepared from around the world, joining together outside the Agora Cancer Research Center Lausanne

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A warm welcome to Andrea Pérez González 🇪🇸, who joins us for her postdoc 🤩 Andrea did her PhD w/ @cedric-blanpain.bsky.social in Belgium, studying the regulation of EMT states in cancer, with exciting work coming out soon 🙌 We’re excited to see what you will discover next in Lausanne, Andrea! 👩🏻‍🔬🔬🧪

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A fond farewell to our amazing @annagavrilenko.bsky.social who leaves the lab after two wonderful years - as a Master student -> research assistant - and a fantastic collaborator across our team 🤩 🙌 Wishing you all the very best as you start your PhD at the University of Basel - so proud of you! 🎉🥳

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Warmest congratulations to Dr. Rui Santalla Mendez, who recently defended his PhD with flying colours! 🎉🥂🥳 Rui's face says it all - pure happiness 🤩 We’re so proud of you @ruisantalla.bsky.social, and excited to see what comes next! 🙌 @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A warm welcome to @catalinarozalen.bsky.social 🇪🇸 who joins us for her postdoc 🤩 Catalina did her PhD w/ @tceliaterrassa.bsky.social where she revealed how breast cancer cells license immune evasion during micrometastasis outbreak 🙌 Looking forward to see what you will discover next Catalina! 👩‍🔬🔬🧪

Photo of Catalina Rozalén Miralles, with the Agora Cancer Centre Lausanne in the background

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Wishing you a very happy holiday season, from our lab to yours!! 🎄❄️⛄🌟 Grateful for everything we were able to celebrate together this year - and looking forward for new discoveries and adventures in 2026 💫

Photo of our lab members at our annual end of year party

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A warm welcome to Arnav Sandu, who joins our lab for his MD-PhD research - to study mechanisms of brain tumor recurrence 🧠🔬🎓 Congratulations also for receiving a prestigious Swiss national MD-PhD fellowship - a fantastic start to your PhD journey!! Read more: www.unil.ch/news/en/1765...

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A warm welcome to our new lab members! Matteo Poncina 🇮🇹 starting his PhD in the Adaptmet ITN Inés Panigua Cabana 🇪🇸 joining us for her postdoc Alessandro Gigliotti 🇨🇭 & Juan Daniel Martin del Campo Flores 🇲🇽 doing their master thesis research with us Looking forward to exciting science together 🙌 🧪

Photo of new lab members outside the Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, left to right:
Matteo Poncina
Inés Panigua Cabana
Alessandro Gigliotti
Juan Daniel Martin del Campo Flores

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Mini Joyce lab reunion at the #EACR Congress in Lisbon! We were very happy to have presented our research, to learn about the latest major cancer discoveries, and also to reconnect with several of our alumni! #EACR2025

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Congratulations to @annagavrilenko.bsky.social, a wonderful scientist in our lab for successfully defending her master's thesis on brain metastasis & completing her MSc degree with flying colours at @unil.bsky.social 🤩🎉 Special thanks also to @ruisantalla.bsky.social her super MSc lab supervisor 🙏

Photo of Anna Gavrilenko and Rui Santalla Mendez, taken outside the Agora Cancer Centre in Lausanne

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

And if you're interested to learn more, here are some 🧪 articles about our paper, including a great Preview written by Anna Dimberg and Roberta Lugano www.cell.com/cancer-cell/... www.ludwigcancerresearch.org/news-release... @unil.bsky.social @ludwigcancer.bsky.social

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

How is the brain vasculature altered by the arrival of metastatic cells, and is it shaped differently depending on the origin of the metastatic cancer? We explored these 🧪 questions earlier this year, in this Cancer Cell study led by our stellar postdoc Leire Bejarano: www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

And if you're interested to learn more, here are some articles about our paper, including a great Preview written by Anna Dimberg & Roberta Lugano www.cell.com/cancer-cell/... www.ludwigcancerresearch.org/news-release... @unil.bsky.social @ludwigcancer.bsky.social

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Hi to everyone following us here - we thought it would be a good time to start sharing a bit about what we work on in the Joyce lab! So over the next weeks we'll post some of the papers that our amazing lab members published in 2024.. For now, a favorite image from Spencer Watson - Battle Lines 🤩🧪

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hi friends 👋 We are a lab of curious researchers - dedicated to understanding and ultimately helping treat cancer Our lab is led by Johanna Joyce, and we are students, postdocs & technicians from all over the world 🇮🇪🇨🇭🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹🇮🇹🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇬🇬🇧🇩🇪 We love doing science 🧪🔬 and living in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland!

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