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Publication | Neurophotonics

The Chemistry of Photoresponsive Systems (CSP) team has published a new study in Neurophotonics, in collaboration with Serge Charpak’s team at the Institut de la Vision. This work introduces an analytical model to correct biases caused by light absorption and scattering in dual-color ratiometric…

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Publication | ACS Chemical & Biomedical Imaging

The Chemistry of Photoresponsive Systems (CPS) team has published a new study, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Bioimaging and Pathologies (LBP, UMR 7021) and Regenerative Nanomedicine (UMR 1260), introducing a new approach to directly measure the microviscosity of biomolecular condensates in…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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.

Louis Evrard

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.

Yi Ding

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.

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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…

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Publication | Angewandte Chemie

Targeted Photoactivatable Green-Emitting BODIPY Based on Directed Photooxidation-Induced Activation and its Application to Live Dynamic Super-Resolution Microscopy

Yu Qiu

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.

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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.

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