The central theme, common to all research projects of the laboratory, is photocatalysis. In different projects, the lab studies biological or bio-inspired systems that use the energy of a photon to perform a chemical reaction.
LMB is changing in 2015 and is divided into three groups as part of the creation of the institute of integrative cell biology (I2BC).
Human resources
Sandra Andrianambinintsoa, Research Engineer
Alain Boussac, Researcher
Hervé Bottin, Researcher
Klaus Brettel, Researcher
Pavel Muller, Researcher
Sandrine Cot, Technician
Nadime Karaduman,
Diana Kirilovsky, Researcher
Anja Krieger-Liszkay, Researcher
Thanh-Lan Lai, Technician
Winfried Leibl, Researcher
Ally Aukauloo, Researcher
Véronique Mary, Technician
Annamaria Quaranta, Research Engineer
Pierre Setif, Researcher
Adjélé Wilson,
Alberto Mezzetti, Scientific advisor
Fundamental mechanisms of bioenergy
The main scientific aim is to understand the underlying reaction mechanisms by elucidating the key processes involved in the
photocatalytic process : formation of an excited state, its conversion into reducing or oxidizing power by charge separation reactions, electron transfer to/from the catalytic site, charge storage on this sites, as well as eventual associated proton transfer processes.
Topics studied in this laboratory concern the
enzymology of iron hydrogenases, the role of ferredoxine-NADP+reductase isoforms,
DNA photo repair by the photolyase,
cryptochromes (blue light photoreceptors), and supramolecular complexes for
hydrogen photoproduction.
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