CEISAM Institute
Research institute in Molecular Chemistry
UMR CNRS 6230
The CEISAM Institute (Interdisciplinary Chemistry: Synthesis, Analysis, Modelling) was founded in 2008, in order to structure Nantes Molecular Chemistry (theoretical chemistry, organic / organometallic synthesis, analytical chemistry & physicochemistry).
Latest News
Pauline CRETIN: Collaboration US2B / AMaCC platform CEISAM
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...
CEISAM at the 2025 Science Festival
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...
Tribute to Jean-Nicolas DUMEZ
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...
Next events
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
9:30 am Ceisam
Seminar
Fabienne Gauffre, Emilie Genin et Michel Sliwa
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
01:30 pm Ceisam
PhD Defense
Federico ZIZZI
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
02:00 pm Amphitheatre LS2N
PhD Defense
Axelle BERROU
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
9:30 am Ceisam
Conferences
Maurice Médebielle et Suzanne Peyrottes
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Our research teams
This Institute is organized into five research teams covering coherent areas of activity but which are based on different and highly complementary segments, giving rise to original transversal projects.
On the basis of fundamental and specific expertise, CEISAM is positioned in a certain number of niches of excellence at the interface with the fields of Health, Food chemistry and Materials, through privileged interactions at regional, national and international levels.
Platforms and equipment
To support our research activities, the CEISAM Institute owns many specialist equipments.
These instruments and equipment chains, sometimes intégrated into platforms, aim to synthesize, model, prepare and characterize organic or hybrid items. The European Union, the CNRS and the "Pays de la Loire" region have largely contributed to co-financing these platforms and equipments in particular in NMR, Mass Spectrometry, Molecular Modeling, Optical spectroscopies and microscopy.
