The five scientific departments, linked to the technological platforms, are the guarantors of the unit’s disciplinary and methodological mastery. In particular, they make it possible to display the expertise and approaches used within the unit for better visibility and legibility for students, post-docs and potential collaborators.
B3S: the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology is interested in protein architectures and studies how their different levels of structure and their interactions regulate their functions.
BioCell: the Department of Cell Biology studies the molecular mechanisms that regulate the physiological functions of living cells and how environmental changes affect these functions.
Genomes: the Genome Department studies the mechanisms responsible for the dynamics and stability of genomes and the regulation of gene expression from the initiation of transcription through translation to co-translational modification of proteins.
MicroBio: the Microbiology Department mainly studies the metabolism of microbes, the formation of microbial envelopes and the interactions between host/environment and microbes.
Virology: The Virology Department studies the mechanisms of virus entry into host cells, innate immunity and the assembly and transport of viruses in cells.