Project leader positions at IECB – Bordeaux 2014

The European Institute of Chemistry and Biology, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (IECB, www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr) is a research team incubator placed under the joint authority of the University of Bordeaux, CNRS and INSERM. It benefits from the strong scientific environment of the Bordeaux campus in the Southwest of France. The Institute hosts 16 research groups working at the interface of chemistry and biology in a recent building (6000 sq meters) with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. The scientific policy of the institute is under the responsibility of an International Scientific Advisory Board, in charge of the selection of new group leaders.

The 1^st TRANSBIO SUDOE collaborative project has been approved!

This 1^st collaborative project called «Functional genomic analysis of the SM-like protein family in C. elegans» and led by a transnational team (Denis Dupuy, PhD, IECB, Bordeaux and Julian Ceron Madrigal, PhD, Idibell, Barcelona) has just been awarded funding from the Transbio Sudoe European program.

Valerie Gabelica obtains an ERC consolidator grant

A 2 M€ grant has been awarded to the project DNAFOLDIMS - Advanced mass spectrometry approaches to reveal nucleic acid folding energy landscapes.

Inauguration of a unique X-ray generator in France

On November the 29^th, the Structural Biophysico-chemistry platform inaugurated at the IECB its new microfocus X-ray generator, a high performance equipment unique in France.