Permanent Researchers
Amélie Leforestier
Research Director (DR2 CNRS), team leader
Room E006
+33 (0)1 69 15 60 87
amelie.leforestier@universite-paris…
Interests: condensed DNA, nucleosome, chromosome, liquid crystal, bacteriophage, cryo electron microscopy
Guillaume Tresset
Research Director (DR2 CNRS)
Room E109
+33 (0)1 69 15 53 60
guillaume.tresset@universite-paris-…
https://equipes2.lps.u-psud.fr/guillaume-tresset/
Interests: biological self-assembly and self-organization, biomimetism, viruses, DNA condensates, small-angle scattering, microfluidics
Engineers
Virginie Bailleux
Assistant Engineer (AI CNRS)
Room W082
+33 (0)1 69 15 59 63
virginie.bailleux@universite-paris-…
Interests : cell culture, microbiology, biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy
Jéril Degrouard
Research Engineer (IGR Université Paris-Saclay)
Room E107
+33 (0)1 69 15 59 81
jeril.degrouard@universite-paris-sa…
Interests : cryo electron microscopy, METSA
Laetitia Poncet
Assistant Engineer (AI CNRS)
Room E007
+33 (0)1 69 15 60 87
laetitia.poncet@universite-paris-sa…
Interests : biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology
Postdocs
Renata Naporano Bicev
Room E108
+33 (0)1 69 15 81 29
renatabicev@gmail.com
Interests: peptides, DNA condensation, gene delivery
PhD Students
Thomas Bugea
Room E115
+33 (0)1 69 15 81 29
thomas.bugea@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Interests: virus, single molecule, fluorescence microscopy, image processing
Tamizhmalar Sundararajan
Room E108
+33 (0)1 69 15 81 29
tamizhmalar.sundararajan@universite-paris-saclay.fr
Interests: liquid-liquid phase separation, peptide-RNA condensates, neutron and X-ray scattering
Kahina Vertchik
Room E106
+33 (0)1 69 15 69 63
kahina.vertchik@universite-paris-sa…
Interests: condensed DNA, liquid crystal, cryo electron microscopy, tomography, TEM/STEM
Fatima Taiki
Room E106
+33 (0)1 69 15 69 63
fatima.taiki@universite-paris-sa…
Interests: nucleosome, chromosome, liquid crystal, cryo electron microscopy, tomography, CEMOVIS
Visitor
Yves Lansac
Associate Professor (MCF Université de Tours)
yves.lansac@univ-tours.fr
Interests : computer simulations, condensed DNA, liquid crystal, polyelectrolytes
Alumni
• Kalouna KRA (PhD defended in 2023)
• Mohamad HARASTANI (PhD defended in 2022)
• Françoise LIVOLANT (CNRS)
• Cesar Augusto LOPEZ USMA (Postdoc 2020-2021)
• Rafael LEITE RUBIM (Postdoc 2019-2020)
• Renata NAPORANO BICEV (Visiting PhD student 2020)
• Maelenn CHEVREUIL (PhD defended in 2020)
• Laurent MARICHAL (Postdoc 2018-2019)
• Jingzhi CHEN (PhD defended in 2019)
• Özgül TEZGEL (Postdoc 2019)
• Eric RASPAUD (CNRS)
• Carine DOUARCHE (Université Paris Saclay)
• Adama Creppy (Postdoc 2015-2016)
• Didier Law-Hine (PhD defended in 2016)
• Nebraska Zambrano (Postdoc 2014-2015)
• Gireeshkumar Balakrishnan-Nair (Postdoc 2012-2014)
• Maxime Ardré (PhD defended in 2014)
• Nicolas Lemercier (PhD defended in 2012)
• Mouna Tatou (Postdoc 2011-2012)
• Baeckkyoung Sung (PhD defended in 2011)
• Miguel Trejo (ATER 2010-2011)
• Clémence Lecoeur (Postdoc 2010-2011)