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Fluorescent proteins don’t like sunburns

Fluorescent proteins don’t like sunburns

Super resolution microscopy continues to reveal new insights into biology at the nanoscale. Quantitative measurements using super resolution microscopy, however, remain limited due to the highly complex photophysical behavior of the used fluorescent labels. In the...

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Aleksandra Mironova

Aleksandra Mironova

Aleksandra Mironova works at the Cell & Plant Physiology Laboratory (LPCV).   Her project: Phase Separation of EARLY FLOWERING 3 and Plant Thermoresponse  Hello, my name is Aleksandra Mironova. I am a PhD student at working at the LPCV, IRIG and the ESRF since...

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Borys Pedenko

Borys Pedenko

Borys Pedenko works at the Institut de Biologie Structurale.     His project: Structure of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein in complex with a novel bnAb LN02  Hello! My name is Borys, and I am from Ukraine! I am a PhD student working on the potential HIV vaccine...

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Massilia Abbas

Massilia Abbas

Massilia Abbas works at the Institut de Biologie Structurale.     Her project: Pathogen LPS recognition by immunity C-type lectins receptor in a cell-surface mimicking environment  Hi! I am Massilia from Algeria. I’m a PhD student at Institut de Biologie Structurale...

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Lorenzo Gaifas

Lorenzo Gaifas works at the Institut de Biologie Structurale.     His project: Structural insight into bacterial chromatin assembly by cryo-electron  Hi, I'm Lorenzo Gaifas! I'm a first year PhD student at the University of Grenoble, working at Institut de Biologie...

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Florian Chenavier

Florian Chenavier

Florian Chenavier works at the Institut de Biologie Structurale.     His project: Dynamic of influenza virus nucleocapsid assembly  Hi! I am from France, my name is Florian and I am a new GRAL PhD student at VRM/MEM groups at Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS)...

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Hassan Hijazi

Hassan Hijazi

Hassan Hijazi works at the Laboratoire Biologie et Biotechnologie pour la Santé - BioSanté.     His project: Altered dynamics of acylations of histone H3 Lysine 27 (H3K27): a mechanism contributing to transcriptional dysregulation in Huntington’s disease?Hello...

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Andrea Pinto

Andrea Pinto

Andrea Pinto works at the Institut de Biologie Structurale.     Her project: Molecular and structural investigations of the complement C1 complex interactions with IgMs  Hello! My name is Andrea Pinto. I am from India and I am a PhD student at the Institut de Biologie...

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Rory Munro

Rory Munro

Rory Munro works at the Institut de Biologie Structurale.     His project: Photo-activation mechanism of OCP studied by time-resolved serial crystallography and NMR spectroscopy  Hi, I am Rory from the United Kingdom. I am a PhD student at Institut de Biologie...

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Raphael Dupeyron

Raphael Dupeyron

Raphaël Dupeyron works at the Institut de Biologie Structurale.     His project: Investigating an epigenetic antifungal target : the RSC chromatin remodelling complex  Hello, my name is Raphaël DUPEYRON. I am a PhD student at the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS)...

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Shaghayegh​ Askarian Amiri

Shaghayegh​ Askarian Amiri

Shaghayegh​ Askarian Amiri works at the Institut de Biologie Structurale.   Her project: Alix control of exosome cargoes entry  Hello, my name is Shaghayegh. I am from Iran. I got my master degree in immunology and through 2 years of experience in supervisory of...

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Mohammad Al Tarrass

Mohammad Al Tarrass

Mohammad Al Tarrass works at the BioSanté lab (Biology and Biotechnology for Health).     His project: Deciphering BMP9/10 signaling  Hello there! My name is Mohammad Al Tarrass, a Ph.D. student from Lebanon. In 2019, I arrived at Grenoble - France to pursue a double...

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