Amina Mahi: a mission led by the collective

What is your journey?

I trained as a biotechnology engineer at Sup’Biotech, graduating in 2022. After completing an internship at the CNRS on the impact of endocrine disrupters on weight gain, I worked in the agri-food sector, an experience that reinforced my desire to devote myself to the health sector. I find it exciting to contribute to research, to better understand the workings of the human body and to develop solutions for certain pathologies.

What are you working on?

I have been a member of the Brain Development Team since July 2024 and am working on the Brain Functional Genome Program (BFGP).

This project aims to better understand gene expression in the human and mouse brain during development. I perform spatial transcriptomic analyses on different samples (human and mouse brains). I develop and optimize transparisation protocols to observe gene and protein expression. I collaborate with the Institute’s various platforms and other research teams.

What is a design engineer?

Being a study engineer with the Brain Institute means developing and optimizing methods to better understand the brain and its mechanisms. What I love most is unravelling the mysteries of this complex brain and the scientific challenge of each technique I develop.

To know that these methods will be used by other researchers at the Institute to advance their own projects is very motivating and inspiring. In this way, I, for my part, participate in collective work that really contributes to the advancement of research. No day is the same, and I love this challenging, enriching and exciting part of my job.