The 9th FrenchBIC online webinar will take place on Friday December 15th at 10.30am, and it will be given by: Anaïs Pitto-Barry (Institut Galien, Orsay), Half-sandwich metal complexes for anticancer applications (abstract); Vincent Fourmond (BIP, Marseille), Electrochemical studies of CO2-reducing enzymes (abstract). The format of the seminar is two 30+10 min talks, followed by a meeting time in an online space for informal discussions. The seminar will be given online, there. Organizers: Vincent Fourmond and Benoît Bertrand.

Rébecca Leblay, from the group BiosCiences, iSm2, Marseille spent two weeks in the LCC in Toulouse. This project was supported by FrenchBIC. My PhD aims at studying the activity of LPMO (Lytic Polysaccharide MonoOxygenases) bioinspired synthetic complexes and their potential activity to valorize recalcitrant biomass. Besides, in Toulouse, peptide ligands with a structure inspired of the first coordination sphere of the LPMO active site have been synthetized. To compare the nature and mechanism of oxidation by synthetic/peptide complexes, enzymes and …

[Project supported by FrenchBIC] Études mécanistiques de complexes à cuivre bioinspirés par la LPMO Read more »

This Ph.D. is financed by an ANR project (Bioinspired Oxidation of Methane). It will be pursued at the Institute of Molecular Sciences of Marseille, and will focus on the development of new caged catalysts based on Fe- or Cu- complexes. These structures will strongly enhance the catalytic efficiency of this challenging reaction, while keeping an excellent selectivity.