Current position:
CNRS Research Associate (Chargée de recherche CNRS, HDR) at Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique (LBT) within the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC) in Paris.
Contact
Email: elise.duboue-dijon[at]cnrs.fr Phone: +33 1 58 41 51 81
Group News
- March 2025: We are hiring! Looking for a post doc with a recent PhD in computational chemistry or biophysics and expertise in MD, QM/MM and/or ML to work with us on ion effects in ribozyme catalysis. Job description here!
- Jan. 2025: We welcome Martin Bari Garnier, M2 student at U. Paris Cité (ISDD), who will spend 6 months with us, working on deciphering the allosteric activation mechanism of the Ca2+-dependent EndoU ribonuclease
- Dec. 2024: Congratulations to Julie Puyo-Fourtine for her brilliant PhD defense ! We wish you the best in your next scientific adventures !
- Oct. 2024: We have an open position for a 6-month M2 internship, starting February 2025, on investigating at the molecular level the allosteric mechanism of a Ca2+-dependent activation of the EndoU ribonuclease. This work is a collaboration with S. Campgne's team in Bordeaux. Contact us for more details.
- Oct. 2024: Julie Puyo-Fourtine received the "Prix Jeunes Talents" from the L'oréal-UNESCO initiative For Women in Science, for her PhD work. Congratulations Julie !
- Sept. 2024: We have the pleasure to welcome Vojtech Kostal, PhD student in Pavel Jungwirth's group (IOCB, Prague), for a 3-month research stay in the team. Supported by a Barrande fellowship.
- Sept. 2024: New preprint out on ChemRXiv presenting Julie's work on the mechanism of rRNA maturation by the M5 enzyme.
- July 2024: Sélène's and Marie's paper on exploring the reactive conformational space of the hairpin ribozyme is out in J. Chem. Theory Comput. ! Work in collaboration with G. Stirnemann at ENS (Paris). Preprint available on ChemRXiv
- April 2024: Our paper on DNA vs RNA hydration dynamics is just accepted in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. ! Preprint available on ChemRXiv.
- Jan. 2024: Our paper on probing TMA hydration with a combination of neutron scattering and molecular simulations is out in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. !
- Dec. 2023: Congratulations to Marie Juillé for the successful defense of her PhD thesis entitled "Minimal ribozymes for autocatalytic networks: Molecular simulations of the cleavage-ligation equilibrium"!
- Oct. 2023: Laetitia Kantin started her PhD (ANR MUSIRICAT) in the group, on developing new computational methodologies to investigate the molecular origin of ion effects in ribozyme catalysis.
- Feb. 2023: Laetitia Kantin joined us for a 6-month M2 internship. She will be working on designing Machine Learned corrections for highly accurate QM/MM-MD exploration of an ion-dependent ribozyme reaction mechanism.
- Oct. 2022: We have an open position for a 6-month M2 internship, starting February 2023, on "Machine Learned corrections for highly accurate QM/MM-MD exploration of an ion-dependent ribozyme reaction mechanism". This internship could be continued with an already funded (ANR MUSIRICAT) PhD position in our group.
- July 2022: Great news: our project MUSIRICAT "Multiscale Simulations to Unveil the Role of Divalent Cations in Ribozyme Catalysis" is funded for 4 years by ANR. Stay tuned!
- May 2022: Julie and Marie's first paper on cation binding to dimethylphosphate is out in J. Phys. Chem. B !