Manosas, M. et al. Nature Chem. Biol. 5, 904–912 (2009).

A post-doctoral position is opened for a candidate with experience in experimental physics and biology (preferably at the single molecule level). The candidate will use single molecule techniques (magnetic tweezers mostly) to study the behaviour of the malaria helicase and the action of drugs directed against it. Interested candidates should write to Vincent Croquette (vincent@lps.ens.fr) and send CV, list of publications and two letters of recommendation. 

 Elise successfully defended her PhD Thesis on Friday, June 19th. She presented her work about Etude des facteurs de remodelage de la chromatine, à l’échelle de la molécule unique. An abstract (english and french versions) is available here.

Elise Thesis

She was awarded highest honor, and the buffet in the garden deserved them as well!  :)

 Terence Strick, once ago a PhD student in our lab, Keir Neuman, a former post-doc fellow, and Jean-François Allemand are organizing the Embo Practical Course: Single-molecule manipulation and analysis of DNA-protein interactions.

It will be held in Paris, from 5th to 18th July 2009. Don't miss it!

On October 27th 2008 Francesco Mosconi is defending his PhD thesis:

Fluctuations in biological molecules:
tools to probe mechanical and structural properties of DNA and proteins

The exam will be held at the "G. Galilei" Physics Department, University of Padova, Italy.

We are looking for a post-doctoral candidate with proven expertise in fluorescent techniques applied to the study of single molecules (FRET, FCS, FIONA, etc.). The idea is to study the activity of a single enzyme as a function of temperature and tension with the aim of understanding the relationship between the function of an enzyme and its structure (obtained from numerical simulations (done in collaboration with the group of M.Baaden at IBPC, Paris) about the known structure of the investigated protein). Interested candidates should send a CV, a letter of motivation and the email address of three referees to David Bensimon: david@lps.ens.fr.