Pauline CRETIN (US2B; Molecular Engineering and Glycobiology Team) has defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Ecophysiology and importance of non-cyanobacterial marine diazotrophs (NCD)” on Friday, October 24, 2025. During her three years of doctoral research, Pauline studied diazotrophy using a model of non-cyanobacterial diazotrophic (NCD) bacteria. Monitoring of nitrogenase activity was carried out at the CEISAM...
From 3rd to 13th October, the 2025 Science Festival took place with the theme ‘Intelligence(s)’ and once again, the CEISAM laboratory was there! Yann Pellegrin, accompanied by other members of the laboratory, ran a chemistry stand at the Science Village, focusing on silly mistakes in chemistry. They also visited the paediatric ward at Nantes University...
Axelle BERROU, PhD student in CEISAM SYMBIOSE team, will defend his thesis entitled “Synthesis of new inhibitors of protein targets, fighting emerging viruses” on December 16th 2025 at 02:00 pm in LS2N amphitheater.
It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Jean-Nicolas Dumez on August 18, 2025. Aged 41, he had been a researcher at the CNRS since 2013 and joined CEISAM five years later. Jean-Nicolas Dumez, studented at the ENS in Lyon from 2004 to 2008 and got the « agrégation » physical sciences, before...
Federico ZIZZI, PhD student in CEISAM IMF team, will defend his thesis in english entitled « Tuning the Internal Structuration of Photoactive Organic Nanoparticles for Improved Photoswitching at the Nanoscale » December 10th 2025 at 1:45 pm in CEISAM’s conference room « Marie Curie ».
The CHEM-Symbiose platform is dedicated to the custom synthesis of small molecules. Since 2013, CHEM-Symbiose has applied its expertise for numerous academic partners through two main activities : service offers and research collaborations. Based in the CEISAM laboratory (UMR6230) at Nantes University, CHEM-Symbiose is labeled by IBiSA (Scientific Interest Group), the Biogenouest platform network, and...
On the occasion of Arthur LANGLARD PhD thesis defense, a lecture will be given at CEISAM in the Marie Curie room at 10 am on Wednesday, October 15 by Professor Emmanuel Maisonhaute from Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire (IPCM) at Sorbonne Université (Paris). Prof. E. Maisonhaute is an electrochemist, expert in ultrafast electron transfer mechanisms in...
Julien SIMONNEAU, PhD student in CEISAM IMF team, will defend his thesis entitled « Molecular catalysis assisted by localised surface plasmon resonance: role and potential of porphyrins » November 14th 2025 at 9:30 am in CEISAM’s conference room « Marie Curie ».
Estelle Lebègue has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright scholarship from the Franco-American Commission, in the category Chercheur National, to fund her mobility to the US (https://fulbright-france.org/fr/laureats-0). Her TOPSEE research project, which she will develop at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), in the group of Prof. Lior Sepunaru from March 17 to June...
Lina FRANSEN, PhD student in CEISAM MODES team, will defend his thesis entitled “Dynamics simulations of photochemistry and attochemistry” on November 13th 2025 at 9:00 am in Ceisam.