PhD call 6 – Funded projects (2024-2027)

Project leader(s)

PhD student

PhD project

Team

Dr. Alexandra Colin & Dr. Laëtitia Kurzawa Alice Cantat Competitive-Architectures : Reconstitution of competitive dynamic actin architectures LPCV – Cytomorpholab
Dr. Jan Kadlec Arije Safa CBC : Structure-function study of the nuclear cap-binding complex mediated RNA export IBS – EPIGEN
Dr. Allison Ballandras-Colas & Prof. Rob Ruigrok Marie Thirion Flu-MxA : Molecular mechanism of avian influenza virus inhibition by the human restriction factor MxA IBS – VRM
Dr. Maxim Balakirev & Dr. Alice Nicolas Ayla Biallas Tissuloid : Tissuloid model for studying tissue self-organization BGE – BIOMICS

 

 

PhD Operating costs call 4 (2023) – Funded projects

PhD supervisor(s) PhD student PhD project Team
Cécile Breyton, Emmanuelle Neumann & Guy Schoehn Alessio D’Acapito Cryo-electron tomography study of bacterial cell wall perforation by bacteriophage T5 IBS – M&P & MEM
Ambroise Desfosses & Irina Gutsche Eymeline Pageot Integrative structural biology of cell extracts IBS – MICA
Hélène Malet & Guy Schoehn Paco Tarillon Caractérisation structurale par cryo-microscopie électronique et cryo-tomographie électronique de l’unité de réplication fonctionnelle du virus La Crosse : la ribonucléoprotéine IBS – MEM

 

 

Master 2 Scholarships 2023-2024 (10-months)

Name

MSc

Supervisor

Corentin Barbot Impact of aberrant Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway on extracellular vesicles secretion and function in adrenocortical cancer Nadia Cherradi – BioSanté, IMAC team
Louane Despas Characterize SMAD4 genetic variants identified in SMAD4pathies in order to establish a phenotype/genotype correlation Agnès Castan – BioSanté, BAL team
Hosni El Zein Nuclear import of HIV-1 Rev: a comprehensive analysis of molecular interactions with host cell proteins Marjolaine Noirclerc-Savoye & Carlo Petosa – IBS, EPIGEN group
Veronica Astrid Morlacchi Epigenome editing effect on chromatin and gene regulation in plants Christel Carles – LPCV, ChromDev team
Joelle Moustafa PMN transmigration in cystic fibrosis: Roles of EG-VEGF and cellular prion (PrPC) proteins in inflammation Mohamed Benharouga – BioSanté, MAB2 team
Marie Thirion Toward the structure of Borna disease virus nucleocapsid Thibaut Crépin – IBS, VRM group

 

 

PhD call 5 – Funded projects (2023-2026)

Project leader(s)

PhD student

PhD project

Team

Alexandre Bouron Marie Perrier
DUCS – Deubiquinating enzymes and Calcium signalling BGE – Gen&Chem
Bruno Franzetti Federico Musso Arc-RQC – Characterization of the archaeal ribosome quality control system IBS – ELMA
Franck Fieschi & Félix Weis María Val Pevida CryoACTINOX – Structural characterization of activated NADPH oxidase complex by CryoEM IBS – M&P & MEM
Juliette Salvaing Marta Carletti SEISPE – The Seipin protein of Phaeodactylum: structure and function specificities LPCV – LIPID
Guillaume Allorent, Giovanni Finazzi & Gilles Curien Eva Cavallari MixCO2 – Exploring the structural and metabolic bases of microalgal mixotrophy for optimum biomass production (Project co-funded with DefiCO2 CDP project) LPCV – LPM

 

 

PhD Operating costs call 3 (2022) – Funded projects

PhD supervisor(s) PhD student PhD project Team
Cécile Boscheron & Winfried Weissenhorn Haiyan Wang Imaging of ESCRT-III spirals at HIV-1 budding necks IBS/EBEV
Franck Fieschi Clara Delaunay Impact in SARS-CoV-2 infection of DC/L-SIGN, L-SECtin and related C-type lectin receptors IBS/M&P
Ina Attrée & Eric Faudry Serena Sleiman Intracellular journey of the bacterial toxin ExoU – structural and cellular aspects IBS/PBRC
Cécile Morlot & Christine Moriscot Elda Bauda Architecture of SpoIIIA-SpoIIQ, a protein complex involved in bacterial sporulation IBS/PG
Sandrine Ollagnier Ingie Elchennawi Structural and functional characterization of complexes involved in Iron-Sulfur cluster biogenesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis to tackle Tuberculosis LCBM/BioCat
Christel Carles & Gilles Vachon Vangeli Geshkovski Chromatin switches in plants: Molecular mechanisms of the ULTRAPETALA1 scaffold protein LPCV/ChromDev
François Parcy & Gabrielle Tichtinsky Moïra Arnoux-Courseaux LEAFY molecular network evolution in land plants LPCV/Flo_Re

 

 

Master 2 Scholarships 2022-2023 (10-months)

Name

MSc

Supervisor

Francesca Arici Planta International Juliette Salvaing, LPCV – LIPID
Bojana Bogdanović Biologie – Physiology, Epigenetics, Differentiation and Cancer Elisa Migliorini, BioSanté – BRM
Sarah J. Karroum Biologie – Physiology, Epigenetics, Differentiation and Cancer Nadia Alfaidy, BioSanté – MAB2
Ioanna Kyritsi Science and management of biotechnologies: cell and gene therapy, tissue engineering Christel Marquette, BioSanté – MAB2
Mohamad Ali Skayni Biologie – Physiology, Epigenetics, Differentiation and Cancer Claire Bouvard, BioSanté – BAL
Finn Sombrutzki Biologie – Structural Biology of Pathogens Martin Weik, IBS – DYNAMOP

 

 

PhD call 4 – Funded projects (2022-2025)

Project leader(s)

PhD student

PhD project

Team

Antoine Royant & Jérôme Dupuy Mohammed Chorfa InfraredFP800: Development of infrared fluorescent proteins with emission towards 800 nm IBS-GSY
Rebekka Wild & Hugues Lortat-Jacob Poushalee Dutta GlycoWall: Molecular insight into yeast cell wall polysaccharide synthesis IBS-SAGAG
Aurélien Deniaud & Pierre-Henri Jouneau (MEM) Cécile Pohar Liver-Architecture: Multiscale 3D electron microscopy to decipher Liver Architecture LCBM-MET&OR
Dimitris Petroutsos & Romain Blanc-Mathieu Mohamad Wahidi CO2NTROL: Remote control of gene expression by CO2 in green microalgae LPCV-SIGNAL
Véronique Hugouvieux Aline Janeau MADOF: Evolution of MADS Transcription Factors and the Origin of the Flower LPCV-STRUCDEV

 

 

PhD Operating costs call 2 (2021) – Funded projects

PhD supervisor(s) PhD student PhD project Team
Christel Carles, Jan Kadlec Jean-Baptiste Izquierdo A molecular mechanism of interaction between two antagonistic chromatin complexes LPCV/ChromDev & IBS/VIC
Marie-Odile Fauvarque, Ramesh Pillai (UNIGE) Giulia Franco Role of m6A RNA methylation in the control of gene expression BioSanté/Gen&Chem
Yvain Nicolet Juneina Omeiri Structural study of the [FeFe]-hydrogénase active site assembly machinery IBS/Metallo
Martin Weik Ronald Rios-Santacruz Molecular movie of light-sensitive proteins by time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography at X-ray free electron lasers and synchrotrons IBS/DYNAMOP

 

 

Master 2 Scholarships 2021-2022 (10-months)

Name

MSc

Supervisor

Matteo Arrighi Planta International Morgane Michaud, LPCV – LIPID
Batoul Moubarak Biology – Physiology, Epigenetics, Development, Cell Differentiation Dimitris Petroutsos, LPCV – SIGNAL
Sairam Dasika Biology – Structural Biology of Pathogens Marc Jamin, IBS – VRM
Filipp Gaivoronskii Biology – Structural Biology of Pathogens Bruno Franzetti, IBS – ELMA
Serena Sleiman Biology – Immunology Microbiology Infectious Diseases François Cretin, IBS – PBRC
Karen Yaacoub Biology – Physiology, Epigenetics, Development, Cell Differentiation Mohamed Benharouga, BioSanté – MAB2

 

 

PhD call 3 – Funded projects (2021-2024)

Project leader(s)

PhD student

PhD project

Team

Delphine Pflieger, Karine Merienne (Strasbourg) & Christophe Battail Hassan Hijazi HuntAcyl: Altered dynamics of acylations of histone H3 Lysine 27 (H3K27): a mechanism contributing to transcriptional dysregulation in Huntington’s disease? BioSanté-EDyP
Jean-Baptiste Reiser & Wai-Li Ling Andrea Jennifer Pinto C1IgMsite: Molecular and structural investigations of the complement C1 complex interactions with IgMs IBS-CAID
Winfried Weissenhorn & Gregory Effantin Borys Pedenko Env-mAb: Structure of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein in complex with a novel bnAb LN02 IBS-EBEV
Cédric Laguri & Michel Thépaut Massilia Abbas nanoLPS: Pathogen LPS recognition by immunity C-type lectins receptor in a cell-surface mimicking environment IBS-NMR
Thibaut Crépin & Guy Schoehn Florian Chenavier Flu-nucleocapsid: Dynamic of influenza virus nucleocapsid assembly IBS-VRM
Chloe Zubieta & Mark Tully Aleksandra Mironova PhaSET: Phase Separation of EARLY FLOWERING 3 and Plant Thermoresponse PCV-StrucDev

 

 

PhD Operating costs call 1 (2020) – Funded projects

PhD supervisor(s) PhD student PhD project Team
Philippe Frachet Samy Dufour Towards Nanoscale Molecular Organisation of the Efferosynapse IBS/IRPAS
Franck Fieschi Clara Delaunay Impact in SARS-CoV-2 infection of DC/L-SIGN, L-SECtin and related C-type lectin receptors IBS/M&P
Yvain Nicolet Tu Quynh Nguyen Assembly machinery of the nitrogenase active site IBS/Metallo
Cécile Morlot, Christine Moriscot, Guy Schoen Elda Bauda Architecture of SpoIIIA-SpoIIQ, a protein complex involved in bacterial sporulation IBS/PG
Cécile Boscheron, Winfried Weissenhorn Haiyan Wang Imaging of ESCRT-III spirals at HIV-1 budding necks IBS/EBEV
Christel Carles, Jan Kadlec Jean-Baptiste Izquierdo A molecular mechanism of interaction between two antagonistic chromatin complexes LPCV/ChromDev & IBS/VIC
Aurélien Deniaud, Mireille Chevallet Yousr Rekik On-chip hepatic organoid for the assessment of liver metabolism LCBM/BioMet
Véronique Hugouvieux, Chloe Zubieta Antonin Galien Structure and Dynamics of Phyllogen-MADS Transcription Factor Interactions LPCV/Strucdev
Marie-Odile Fauvarque, Ramesh Pillai (UNIGE) Giulia Franco Role of m6A RNA methylation in the control of gene expression BGE/Gen&Chem

 

 

Master 2 Scholarships 2020-2021 (10-months)

Name

MSc

Supervisor

Jhoanell Angulo Planta International Florence Courtois – LPCV
Vangeli Geshkovski Planta International Christel Carles – LPCV
Marina Callandret Integrative Structural Biology Romain Vivès – IBS
Florian Chenavier Integrative Structural Biology Thibaut Crépin – IBS
Perrine Rochas Physiology, Epigenetics, Differentiation, and Cancer Marie-José Stasia & Franck Fieschi – IBS

 

 

Master 2 Scholarships 2020-2021 (6-months)

Name MSc Supervisor
Borys Pedenko Erasmus+ Mundus M2: Leading International Vaccinology Education, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Winfried Weissenhorn & Grégory Effantin – IBS
Jonas Koch Immunology, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, UGA Véronique Rossi & Christine Gaboriaud – IBS
Louis Brigandat Sciences de la Matière, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon Catherine Bougault & Jean-Pierre Simorre – IBS

 

 

PhD call 2 – Funded projects (2020-2023)

Project leader

PhD student

PhD project

Team

Ina Attrée Adèle Renier Exploring Two Partner Secretion in virulence of Gram-negative pathogens BCI-PBRC
Isabelle Vilgrain Olivia Garnier Endothelial cell reprogramming in cancer microenvironment: towards the identification of new therapeutic targets BCI-IMAC
Christophe Masselon & Sébastien Hentz Vaitson Çumaku Structural characterization of engineered Virus Like Particles using nanoresonator-based mass spectrometry BGE-EDyP
Malene R. Jensen Lenette Frøsig Kjær Structure, dynamics and assembly of super-scaffolding complexes in MAPK cell signaling IBS-FDP
Irina Gustche & Joanna Timmins Lorenzo Gaifas Structural insight into bacterial chromatin assembly by cryo-electron IBS-MICA
Jacques-Philippe Colletier & Bernhard Brustcher Rory Munro Photo-activation mechanism of OCP studied by time-resolved serial crystallography and NMR spectroscopy IBS-DYNAMOP
Gilles Curien & Johan Decelle Andrea Valeria Catacora Grundy Multiscale study of the host control on its symbiotic microalgae PCV-Photosynthesis

 

 

Master 2 Scholarships 2019-2020

Name

MSc

Supervisor

Mariel Cano Jorge Nano-Biosciences Laurent Blanchoin – LPCV
Natalia Lyubaykina Integrative Structural Biology Valentin Gordelly – IBS
Elda Bauda Integrative Structural Biology Cécile Morlot – IBS
Alberto Florez-Prada Integrative Structural Biology Darren Hart – IBS
Andrea Valeria Catacora Grundy Planta International Giovanni Finazzi – LPCV

 

 

PhD call 1 – Funded projects (2019-2022)

Project leader

PhD student

PhD project

Team

Sabine Bailly Mohammad Al Tarass Deciphering BMP9/10 signaling BCI-BAL
Dominique Bourgeois Jip Wulffelé Manipulating fluorophore photophysics to boost single-particle tracking photo activated localization microscopy (spt-PALM) (start of PhD project: 1.10.2020) IBS-PIXEL
Marc Jamin Hussein Daher Structure and operating principles of rabies virus RNA transcription/ replication machine IBS-VRM
Carlo Petosa Raphaël Dupeyron Investigating an epigenetic antifungal target : the RSC chromatin remodelling complex IBS-VIC
Rémy Sadoul Shaghayegh Askarian Amiri Alix control of exosome cargoes entry (start of PhD project: 1.7.2020) IBS-EBEV
Paul Schanda Loïc Hellio Structural basis of membrane-protein insertion into the mitochondrial outer membrane by MIM IBS-NMR