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 |