Jean-Louis Mergny#
| Membership Number: | 4900 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ip-paris.fr/en/research/education-and-research-departments/department-biology |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3043-8401 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020+ Senior Researcher at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
- 2015 - 2018 Director of IECB www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr and its service unit / tech. platforms
- 2011 - 2018 Director of ARNA laboratory (INSERM – CNRS – U. Bordeaux)
- 2016 - 2017 Deputy Director of SIRIC BRIO (Bordeaux Cancer initiative).
- 2006 - 2009 Deputy Director, Museum Nat. Hist. Naturelle, Paris (Dir. C. Giovannangeli)
- 1993 - 2006 INSERM Researcher (CR2 – CR1 – DR2) INSERM U565, Paris (Dir. C. Hélène)
- 1992 - 1993 Post-doctoral fellow, Basel, CH (Pr. Walter Gehring) Antisense oligos in Drosophila
- 1989 - 1991 PhD in Pharmacology, Paris (Pr. C. Hélène) Triple-helices: spectroscopic studies
Fields of Scholarship
- Drug-DNA interactions
- G-quadruplexes
- Applications of unusual DNA/RNA structures for nano- and bio-technologies
- Nucleic acids structure
- Antiviral / Antitumoral effects of nucleic acid ligands
- Genome analysis: development of predictive tools
- Biophysical / Physico-chemical studies (Absorbance, Circular dichroism, Fluorescence / FRET)
Honours and Awards
- 2020+ Laboratoire d'Optique et Biosciences, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
- 2018+ Invited Professor. State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University, P.R. China
- 2016 - 2021 Key foreign scientist, Symbit project. Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2017 Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation awarded for a student working with us
- 2012 Best thesis (SVS doctoral school): P.L.T. Tran
- 2010 Guest Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (Changchun, China)
- 2009 "Chaire d'Accueil" in Bordeaux. Aquitaine Regional Council
- 2002 "Therapeutical research" INSERM Award, 2002
- 2001 "Maurice Nicloux" SFBBM (2001)
- 2000 "Labbey" Award from the French Academy of Sciences
- 1992 "Nine Choucroun" price for thesis
