The opponents of the defense were Associate Professor Emma Andersson from the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and Associate Faculty Guido Hermey, Priv.-Doz. Dr. from Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Professor Marina Romero-Ramos from the Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University. 

Lucie's PhD-project evolved around the function of SORCS2 and SORCS3, which belong to the Vacuolar Protein Sorting 10 protein domain (VPS10p-D) family of single-pass transmembrane receptors involved in intracellular sorting and membrane signaling. Over the last two decades, these receptors have become a hotspot across translational neuroscience as their mutations are tightly linked to the etiology of multiple neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ADHD, Autism spectrum disorder or Tourette´s syndrome. Thus, this PhD project explores the mechanism of SorCS2 and SorCS3 involvement in the neural development.

Congratulations to Lucie on her new title.