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Pierre Mangeol awarded with Fondation de France Jacques Monod prize

Post doc fellow Pierre Mangeol, from Single Molecule to Cell-level Biophysics laboratory, was awarded with the Fondation de France Jacques Monod prize for his PhD work on the study of RNA-protein interactions at the single molecule level.

This prize is awarded to researchers who worked in French laboratories on molecular aspects of cellular regulation. The awarding jury consists of leading reseachers, most of which worked with Jacques Monod.

During his PhD, Pierre Mangeol built a double optical tweezers setup, which enables to probe molecular interactions, one molecule at the time. He used this setup to probe protein-RNA interactions that take place in the ribosome as well as interactions responsible for expression regulation during protein translation.