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Olivier BENSAUDE PhD Physical Chemistry / Emeritus Research Director

Course and current status

2016 -           Emeritus Reasearch Director at IBENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure. Studies on the Exon Junction Complex
1991- 2016    Group leader at IBENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure. Non coding RNAs. RNAPII CTD Phosphorylation.
1986-1991    group leader at Institut Pasteur. Protein heat denaturation in live cells. RNAPII CTD Phosphorylation.
1981-1986    Post-doc 2 Institut Pasteur, Pr F.JACOB’s lab – Heat shock proteins in early mouse embryos
1979-1981    Post-doc 1 Institut Pasteur, Pr H.BUC’s lab – Allostery Glycogen Phosphorylase
1973-1979    PhD - University Paris VII, Pr J.E.DUBOIS’lab – Non dissociative Intramolecular Proton Transfer

Scientific summary

Current research involves the use of "split" luciferases and "split" GFP to investigate the assembly and disassebly of the Exon Junction Complex in vitro and in live cells.