Thesis Price & Chairs

The Nine Choucroun Award

Nine Choucroun, a collaborator of Jean Perrin and Research Director at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, wished to encourage young researchers to research in the vast field of physico-chemical biology.
An annual prize was created in December 1980 by his heirs; It is aimed at young scientific researchers, aged 30 years at most, French or foreign, working in French laboratories.
This prize, awarded by a jury largely outside the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, rewarded work in various fields: theoretical chemistry, physicochemistry of membranes and nucleic acids, molecular biology of prokaryotes and eukaryotes, Development, cell biology.
In 2010, the Nine Choucroun Prize became Fondation Edmond de Rothschild-Nine Choucroun Prize This prize, awarded under the auspices of the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, is aimed at young researchers working in the field of Physical and Chemical Biology.

Award recipients since 1995

1995

• Mrs. Fatima BOUBRIK, Laboratory of Bacterial Physiology of the IBPC, for her work on " The role of the histone-like protein HU in the processes of recombination and repair of DNA "
• Mr. Fabrice RAPPAPORT, Department of Photosynthesis of the IBPC, for his work on " The mechanism of oxygen formation in the photosynthetic apparatus ".

1996

• Mlle. Cécile BREYTON, Biophysical Membrane Department of the IBPC, for her work entitled  "Structural and functional study of the cytochrome b6f complex of the photosynthetic chain in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii".
• Anne LEBRUN, Theoretical Biochemistry Department of the IBPC, for her work on "DNA conformational deformation studies and their implications in the recognition of target sequences by proteins".

1998

• Mr. Daniel RIVELINE, the Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovoth, Israel (co-operation with the national service) for his work on "Actin-myosin actin filament study by external forces"
• Mlle Carine TISNE, NMR laboratory, Institut Pasteur, Paris, for her work on "NMR study and molecular modeling of HIV-1 kB sites that fix the transcription factor NF-kB".

2000

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  Mr. Eric FERNANDEZ-BELLOT, Structural Heredity Laboratory, CGM-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, for his work on "The study of the yeast prion (URE3)"
• Mr. Laurent LACROIX, Biophysics Group, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, for his work on "The study of the folding of cytosine-rich nucleic acids: from the artificial control of gene expression to the recognition of cellular proteins
  2001
• Mr. Benoît LADOUX, Laboratory of Biorheology and Physical and Chemical Hydrodynamics - UMR 7057, University Paris VII, for his work entitled "Fluorescence videomicroscopy study of individual molecules of biological interest in interaction".
• Mr. Antonin MORILLON, Laboratory for the Regulation of Genetic Expression in Microorganisms - UPR 9073, Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology, for his work entitled  "Analysis of the promoter of retrotransposon Ty1 and its regulation by stress in S. cerevisiae"

2002

• Mr. Matthieu PIEL, Curie Institute, Biology of Cell Cycle and Motility, for his work on "The centrosome of vertebrate cells"

2003

• Mr. Fabien FERRAGE, Department of Chemistry, Ecole Normale Supérieure - for his work entitled "New tools in nuclear magnetic resonance: study of the structural and dynamic properties of very low or very high resolution biomolecules".
• Mr. David STROEBEL, Molecular Physical Chemistry of Biological Membranes, UMR 7099 CNRS - University Paris VII, Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology - for his work entitled "Determination of the structure of cytochrome b6f complex"

2004

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  Mr. Gwénaël RABUT, European Molecular Biology Laboratory of Heidelberg, for his work on "The study of the different aspects of the dynamics of nuclear pore organization during the cell cycle".
• Yann MARCY, Physics and Chemistry Unit of the Institut Curie for "carrying out the first direct measurement of the forces produced by the actin polymerization, an important step in cell migration, and characterizing a resulting type of movement , propulsion ".

2005

• Mlle. Manuela ZOONENS, Molecular Physical Chemistry of Biological Membranes, UMR 7099 CNRS - University Paris VII, IPBP - for her work entitled "Amphiphilic polymers: new approach for the study of membrane proteins by NMR"

2006

• Mrs. Fanny PILOT, Laboratory of Cellular Molecular Biology, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon - for her research work in the field of early development of Drosophila. She developed a new approach combining a fine transcriptome analysis (to identify genes specifically induced during the period of cellularization) and a functional study of these genes. Fanny Pilot has identified many new genes, and the two she has studied have brought a whole new light on the motor aspects of cellularization and the underlying molecular mechanisms
• Mr. Manuel THERY, CEA Grenoble, Biopuces Laboratory - for his research on the problem of the geometry of cell division, one of the important parameters of morphogenic processes. He developed an isolated cell system attached to surfaces with defined physical constraints, particularly adhesive constraints, in vitro.

2008

• Mr. Pierre NEVEU, for his thesis co-supervised by the Laboratory of Statistical Physics and the Department of Chemistry of the ENS in Paris, under the direction of David Bensimon and Ludovic Jullien, entitledf "Development photoactivatable regulatory factors "

2012

• Mr. Demosthène MITROSSILIS, for his thesis at the Laboratory of Matter and Complex Systems (UMR 7057 Paris 7 / CNRS), on the subject of "Cellular Mechanosensitivity: real-time response to rigidity"
• Mr. Loïc SALMON, Institute of Structural Biology of Grenoble - for his thesis entitled  "The conformational disorder of proteins observed by nuclear magnetic resonance"

2013

• Mr. Kévin HO WAN, for his thesis from the University Denis Diderot (Paris, France) entitled "Study of the initiation of the process of DNA repair coupled with transcription by magnetic clamps", work carried out under the supervision of Dr Térence Strick in the Biomolecule Nanomanipulation team of the Jacques Monod Institute, UMR 7592 / CNRS / Denis Diderot University.

2015

• Mr. Joël LEMIERE, for his thesis in 2014 entitled "Actin cytoskeleton and membrane deformations: from the liposome to cell reconstruction" under the supervision of Cécile SYKES -UMR 168 Institut Curie
• Mr. Stanislas Von EUW, for his thesis in 2014 entitled "Biomineralization of bone: structural characterization of the mineral & its 3D organization" under the supervision of Florence BABONNEAU -LCMCP Pierre et Marie Curie