HiFunMat funding
The Chemistry of Photoresponsive Systems (CSP) team has been awarded funding through the 2026 HiFunMat Master ID Call for the project LiSENSE – Fluorescently Labeled Lignin Nanomaterials: Unraveling Physicochemical Properties toward Efficient Drug Delivery. The project will be carried out in…
Publication | Langmuir
The CPS team is delighted to have contributed to the work led by Dr. Andreas Reish (UMR_S 1121) on the study of the mechanisms and kinetics of polymer nanoparticle formation via nanoprecipitation, using FRET and stopped-flow techniques. Congratulations to all the authors for this excellent…
Publication | Aggregate
The CPS team is happy to announce the publication of Sonia Pfister’s latest work in the open-access journal Aggregate (Wiley, IF: 13.7). In this study, we demonstrate that transient membrane-promoted J-aggregation of BODIPY dimers enables dual-channel live-cell super-resolution imaging. Link …
New master 1 student
The PCS team is happy to welcome Zhongze Shi. Zhongze is a first-year Master's student at Université Paris Cité, specializing in Frontier Chemistry. He is completing a two-month internship in the team. During this internship, he is working on the synthesis of photomodulable fluorescent molecules,…
Thesis price | Sonia Pfister
Congratulations to Sonia Pfister on receiving the 2025 PhD Thesis Award in Physicochemical Sciences from the French National Academy of Pharmacy, in recognition of her research carried out within the CPS team on the development of new fluorescent probes for super-resolution imaging in living cells.
Publication | Journal of Cell Science
SBIS, a new orange fluorescent vital probe for the 4D imaging of brown algal cells.
New PhD student
The CPS team is happy to welcome Louis Evrard, who will work on directed photo-oxidation for the design of photo-modular fluorescent probes.
New PhD student
The CPS team is happy to welcome Yi Ding, from the Tohoku University, who will carry out a doctoral mobility on the design of photomodulable fluorescent probes for bioimaging.
Integration of the CSP team into the ITI HiFunMat
The Photoresponsive Systems Chemistry team is pleased to announce that it is joining the Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute (ITI) « HiFunMat » to develop new functional materials for chemical biology. Within this framework, the CSP group will explore the design of multifunctional fluorescent…
Publication | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Optimized Fluorescent pH-Sensitive Dextran Conjugates Enable Ratiometric Measurement of Cerebral Blood pH In Vivo and In Situ
Publication | Angewandte Chemie
Targeted Photoactivatable Green-Emitting BODIPY Based on Directed Photooxidation-Induced Activation and its Application to Live Dynamic Super-Resolution Microscopy
Publication | ChemComm
Spontaneously Blinkogenic Probe for Wash-Free Single-Molecule Localization-Based Super-Resolution Imaging in Living Cells
Jean-Marie Lehn foundation: installation
The Chemistry of Photoresponsive Systems (CPS) team has received a support grant from the Jean-Marie Lehn Foundation for its recent establishment. News CPS
New PhD student
The CPS team is pleased to welcome Yu Qiu, who will be conducting her PhD on the synthesis and characterization of biocompatible polymers for controlled drug delivery.
New chemistry postdoc
The CPS team is pleased to welcome Dr. Lucille Weiss as a postdoctoral researcher. She will be working on an IdEx “Attractivité” project aimed at developing photomodulable fluorescent probes for bioimaging applications.
Publication | Soft Matter
Lipophilic molecular rotor to assess the viscosity of oil core in nano-emulsion droplets
Publication | International Journal of Pharmaceutics
(E, E)-farnesol and myristic acid-loaded lipid nanoparticles overcome colistin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii
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New chemistry engineer
Émilie Deprez has joined us for 6 months as a research engineer. She will work on developing fluorescent probes for the labeling of various organelles in fluorescence microscopy.
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