Molecular and Cellular Perturbations and Xenobiotics (MCPX)
Leader: Fernando RODRIGUES LIMA (PR UPCité)
2024
- February 2024 – Sonja Boland was invited to take part in the radio programme ‘Plastique astic astic, aïe aïe aïe’ on Radio Campus Paris’ “Happy hour scientifique” to talk about the health effects of plastics. The podcast of the live show is available at
https://www.radiocampusparis.org/emission/vQV-happy-hour-scientifique/vQWL-33-plastique-astic-astic-aie-aie-aie
- February 2024 – Francelyne Marano is appointed chair of the RATP’s External Stakeholders Committee (CPPe) for the improvement of air quality in railway stations. F Marano is also vice-chair of the ‘Health, environment, work’ expert committee at Santé publique France.
- January 2024 – Kamel Maouche (MCF UPCité) joins our team to contribute his expertise on the plasticity of the respiratory epithelium under normal and pathological conditions using in vitro and in vivo models.
2023
Oct. 2023 – Stéphanie Devineau carries out a week of experiments on the MISTRAL light line at the ALBA synchrotron in Spain, in collaboration with the IBPC.
Sept. 2023 – Victor Alcolea-Rodriguez, a PhD student at CSIC in Madrid, visits our laboratory for a fortnight.
July 2023 – The new inverted confocal Raman microscope was installed on the Raman imaging platform for the observation of cells and tissues without labelling.
June 2023 – A two-week visit to our laboratory by Michael R. Green, associate-professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.
February 2023 – Stéphanie Devineau will spend a further 6 months in Katsumasa Fujita’s laboratory at Osaka University (Japan), in the Applied Physics Department.
2022
- July 2022 – Francelyne Marano, Professor Emeritus, is promoted to the rank of Officer in the National Order of the Legion of Honour.
2021
- Nov. 2021 – Stéphanie Devineau spends two weeks in Séamus Fanning’s laboratory at the Centre for Food Safety, University College Dublin, Ireland.
- June 2021 – Armelle Baeza elected to the Environmental Health Section of the French National Academy of Pharmacy.
2020
- Sept. 2020 – Sonja Boland begins a new 3-month scientific stay in Sergio Moya’s laboratory at the CIC biomaGUNE in San Sebastian, Spain.
- Sept. 2020 – Fernando Rodrigues-Lima will spend a week in Michael R. Green’s laboratory at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA. Green’s laboratory at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.
- Feb. 2020 – From February 2020, Sonja Boland will be spending 6 months in Sergio Moya’s laboratory at the CIC biomaGUNE in San Sebastian, Spain, as part of the European BIORIMA project. This collaboration will enable the development of organoid models to assess the toxicity of nanobiomaterials in the respiratory system in vitro.
https://www.biorima.eu/
https://www.cicbiomagune.es/
- Feb. 2020 – From February 2020, Stéphanie Devineau will be spending 6 months in Professor Katsumasa Fujita’s laboratory at the University of Osaka (Japan), in the Applied Physics Department. This assignment will enable the Laboratory to develop approaches using Raman spectroscopy
2019
- Dec. 2019 – Florent Busi and Fernando Rodrigues-Lim
- Dec. 2019 – Stéphanie Devineau is taking part in the ICBME conference (17th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering), which takes place from 9 to 12 December 2019 in Singapore. She will be presenting her work at the Symposium on Biomedical Nanotechnology. The visit is part of a collaboration with James Kah of the National University of Singapore (NUS).
http://www.icbme.org/
Nov. 2019 – Armelle Baeza presents the results of the toxicological assessment of African particles carried out as part of the DACCIWA programme at the international seminar on Air Quality in French-speaking African cities. The conference is organised by GUAPO (Global Urban Air Pollution Observatory), 28-29 November 2019, Paris.
https://www.dacciwa.eu
Oct. 2019 – Francelyne Marano gives a lecture as part of the Fête de la Science 2019: ‘Faut-il avoir peur des nanos? Le vrai du faux’, 11 October 2019, Paris.
Sept. 2019 – Sonja Boland presents alternative models for the study of respiratory pathophysiology in humans at the FRANCOPA seminar ‘Use of alternative methods for the study of physiology and pathology’, 24 September 2019, Paris.
http://www.francopa.fr
Sept. 2019 – Pascal Roussel and Valentina Sirri-Roussel’s study on the maturation process of precursor ribosomal RNAs is published in the Journal of Cell Science. This study shows the involvement of sirtuin 7 in the cleavage of site 2 of the 45S precursor ribosomal RNA.
http://jcs.biologists.org/lookup/doi/10.1242/jcs.228601
Sept. 2019 – Maxime Willart is completing his first-year BTS Biotechnologies (ESTBA) internship in our team. He worked with Oliver Brookes and Armelle Baeza on an in vitro model of the lung alveolus.
Jul 2019 – Qing Nian defended his PhD thesis from Université Paris Diderot on 16 July 2019. Her thesis topic focused on the inhibition of the protein tyrosine phosphatase PTN2 by the quinone etoposide and the functional characterisation of a pathological mutant. Qing Nian was enrolled in the BIO-SPC doctoral school (specialising in Biomolecules, Structural Biology, Pathology and Biotherapy). Her thesis was funded by the China Scholarship Council.
June 2019 – Jérémy Berthelet is defending his PhD thesis at Université Paris Diderot on 14 June 2019. His thesis topic focused on the effects of reactive benzene metabolites and an oncogenic mutation on SetD2, a histone methyltransferase. Jérémy Berthelet was enrolled in the BIO-SPC doctoral school (specialising in Biomolecules, Structural Biology, Pathology and Biotherapy). His thesis was funded by the Cancéropôle IDF.