PhD defense of Kalouna KRA

Kalouna KRA has defended her PhD thesis entitled Structural study at high spatio-temporal resolution of the effects of hepatitis B virus capsid assembly modulators under the supervision of Stéphane BRESSANELLI …

Antivirals alter the elastic properties of Hepatitis B Virus capsids

More than 292 million people are chronically infected with the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), mainly in Africa and South Asia, due to the lack of systematic vaccination. HBV causes severe pathologies such as liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, sometimes leading to the death of almost a million patients …

PhD defense of Mohamad Harastani

Mohamad HARASTANI has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Image analysis method development for in vitro and in situ cryo electron tomography studies of conformational variability of biomolecular complexes: case of …

PhD defense of Maelenn Chevreuil

Maelenn CHEVREUIL has defended her PhD thesis entitled Self-assembly and disassembly dynamical phenomena in icosahedral viruses under the supervision of Stéphane BRESSANELLI and Guillaume TRESSET on February 24, 2020. The …

How do icosahedral RNA viruses package their genome?

In collaboration with the Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, our team has elucidated the nonequilibrium self-assembly dynamics …

A Nobel prize for cryo electron microscopy

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have been awarded the 2017 Nobel prize for Chemistry “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution” a …