Curriculum vitæ
Matthieu Sainlos is a CNRS Research Director who earned his PhD in bioorganic chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn. He then completed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Barbara Imperiali at MIT. In 2009, he joined Daniel Choquet’s team, contributing to the creation of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience and initiating a new research program focused on developing chemical biology tools and methods to monitor and control protein–protein interactions.
EDUCATION
2019 Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR), University of Bordeaux
2004 PhD in Organic Chemistry, University Paris VI, France – Title: “Gene transfer using bioactive compounds”
Phd supervisor Prof. Jean-Marie LEHN, (UPR 285, Laboratory of Molecular Interactions Chemistry, Collège de France)
2000 Engineering degree in Chemistry from the National School of Chemistry of Mulhouse (ENSCMu), Specialization: Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry
DEA (equivalent to M.Sc.) in Chemistry, Specialization: Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis, University of Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
CURRENT POSITION
2019–present CNRS Research Director (DR2, CNRS Section 16) at the Interdisciplinary Institute for NeuroScience (IINS) – UMR 5297, CNRS-University of Bordeaux, France
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2009–2019 CNRS Research Associate (CR, CNRS Section 16) at IINS-Univ. Bordeaux, France – Team D. Choquet
2005–2008 Postdoctoral Fellow. Pr. B. Imperiali (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA) / Dr. D. Choquet (UMR 5091, Bordeaux). Funded by Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship
2004–2005 Postdoctoral Fellow. Pr. B. Imperiali (MIT, Cambridge, USA) Funded by ARC foundation fellowship (Association for Cancer Research)
2000–2001 PhD Fellow. Pr. J-M. Lehn (UPR 285, Laboratory of Molecular Interactions Chemistry, Collège de France)
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Director of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Platform at FR Bordeaux Neurocampus – BioProt
Head of Molecular Probe Service – IINS Cell Biology Platform