May 24th 2022 - Seminar from Dr Robert B. P. Elmes

Squaramides: From Receptors to Antimicrobials

May 20th 2022 - Seminar from Pr Janet Morrow

Macrocycles, Cages and Liposome-based Cobalt and Iron Complexes as Magnetic Resonance Imaging Probes

A new mechanism of antiobiotic resistance

By solving the atomic structure of the transcription factor Rho of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by cryoEM, researchers from CBM and CBS (Montpellier) have identified a mutation specifically responsible for resistance to bicyclomycin in this pathogen.

J.-M. Bonmatin co-authored an article linking neonicotinoid insecticides to chronic kidney disease of undetermined etiology (CKDu)

Chronic Kidney Diseases (CKD) are a growing scourge worldwide, particularly in less developed countries with intensive agriculture. Several risk factors have been identified, but an undetermined etiology (CKDu) remains which may be linked to pesticides.

March 14, 2022 - Webinar by Dr. Vicente Verez-Bencomo

Development of a conjugate vaccine against the COVID19: SOBERANA 02 and the prevention of COVID19 during the OMICRON wave

The first molecules which really prefer manganese(II) over zinc(II)

Overcoming general rules of coordination chemistry ? Via a perfect size-match, bispidine cages lead to record stability, and for the first time, selectivity for the complexation of manganese(II) versus zinc(II). They can provide safer and more biocompatible MRI contrast agents.

Eva Jakab Toth, director of the CBM, received the 2020 Joseph-Achille Le Bel Grand Prix from the Société Chimique de France

This award recognizes her outstanding role in the development and use of coordination complexes for medical imaging and radio diagnostics.

A new luminescence for the direct follow-up of drug delivery

The encapsulation of drugs into liposomes allows their activation only once they are released from the nanocargo. The in vivo follow-up of this processes is still a challenge, for which chemists and biologists of CBM propose a new strategy.

New methodological breakthrough in total protein synthesis

A chemo-enzymatic approach to ligation on a solid support

J.-M. Bonmatin co-author of a letter in Science (July 16, 2021)

Pollinator specialists have published in Science a call to European ministers to reduce the toxic risks of pesticides for pollinators.

How the hydrothermal environment of Primeval Earth may have influenced the choice of sugar in DNA and RNA

CBM scientists give answers in a publication published in the Journal Nature Communications.

Biotechnocentre 33rd conference

October 7 and 8, 2021 - Meetings in the fields of Life Sciences, Health and Well-being in the Center-Val de Loire Region

When a non-conserved protein domain becomes essential

A case study through the characterization of the essential transcription termination Rho factor from a low G+C, Gram-negative bacterium

Biodiversity skepticism?

J.-M. Bonmatin co-author of a new critical article (5 April 2021)

J.-M. Bonmatin co-author of an article in One Health (18 March 2021)

Study of the impact of biocids on bees with the "One Health" concept