Groupe Français des Peptides et Protéines
French Peptide Society
Chemistry of amino acids, peptides and proteins
| Team Leader | Lab | Location | Main Keyword | Second Keyword | Website | GFPP membership |
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| Dr Oleg Melnyk | Miniproteins & Therapeutics Team (MINT team) CNRS UMR9017 & Inserm U1019 | Lille | Chemistry of amino acids, peptides, and proteins | Peptide therapeutics and clinical applications |  | March 13, 2024 |
If you want your team to be considered as a GFPP team, just click on the button below to access the form for applying.
Why apply to/Advantages of a GFPP membership:
1/ access to a network of researchers and develop collaborations
2/ identify expertise on peptide science, from synthesis to applications
3/ share knowlegde and know-how
4/ find experts to take on new challenges
5/ gain recognition and visibility for our skills and expertise
Interactive table for finding GFPP teams by research themes
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Peptide mimetics, peptoids and peptide nucleic acids |
Peptide conjugates (sugar, lipid, nucleic acid, drug) |
Peptide prodrugs |
Peptide targeting & delivery |
Proteomics and peptide bioinformatics |
Peptide materials |
Peptide computational studies & artificial intelligence |
Peptides & green approaches |
If you want your team to be considered as a GFPP team, just click on the button below to access the form and apply.
Why apply to/Advantages of a GFPP membership:
1/ access to a network of researchers and develop collaborations
2/ identify expertise on peptide science, from synthesis to applications
3/ share knowlegde and know-how
4/ find experts to take on new challenges
5/ gain recognition and visibility for our skills and expertise
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ncAA2024 Key Dates
Please note that registration at the “The ncAAs-2024 : Noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs)” meeting will be limited to the first 150 attendees
June 7th, 2024: Deadline for oral communication submission
June 28th, 2024: Deadline for poster submission.
June 28th, 2024: End of registration.
| Registration types | Registration |
| Students / PhDs/ Postdocs | 60 € |
| Academics | 100 € |
| Private company delegates | 150 € |
Registration fees include:
Registration to ncAA 2024
Invited Speakers
| Prof Jason CHIN
University of Cambridge, UK |
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Jason Chin is a Programme Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRCLMB), where he is also Head of the Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology (CCSB). He is a Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at the University of Cambridge, and holds a joint appointment at the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry. He is also a fellow in Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Jason is a native of the UK. He was an undergraduate at Oxford University, where he worked with Professor John Sutherland on Cephalosporin biosynthesis. He obtained his PhD as a Fulbright awardee from Yale University, working with Professor Alanna Schepartz. He was a Damon Runyon Fellow at The Scripps Research Institute with Professor Peter Schultz where he developed the first approaches to systematically expand the genetic code of eukaryotic cells and pioneered approaches, that are now widely used, for defining protein interactions by genetically encoding photocrosslinking amino acids.
Jason’s work has been recognized by a number of awards, including: the Francis Crick Prize (Royal Society), the Corday Morgan Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry), European Molecular Biology Organization’s (EMBO) Gold Medal, Louis-Jeantet Young Investigator Career Award, Sackler International Prize in the Physical Science. He is in the European Inventors Hall of Fame, a member of EMBO, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Fellow of The Royal Society. Jason’s early work provided a foundation for Ambrx and he is the founder and CSO of Constructive Bio. He is also a non-executive director at the UK Government’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology.
| Prof Benjamin DAVIS
Sugars and Proteins University of Oxford, UK |
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Ben Davis got his B.A. (1993) and D.Phil. (1996) from the University of Oxford. During this time he learnt the beauty of carbohydrate chemistry under the supervision of Professor George Fleet. He then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Bryan Jones at the University of Toronto, exploring protein chemistry and biocatalysis.
In 1998 he returned to the U.K. to take up a lectureship at the University of Durham. In the autumn of 2001 he moved to the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford and received a fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2005.
His group’s research centres on the chemical understanding and exploitation of biomolecular function (Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology and Chemical Medicine), with an emphasis on carbohydrates and proteins. In particular, the group’s interests encompass synthesis and methodology; target biomolecule synthesis; inhibitor/probe/substrate design; biocatalysis; enzyme & biomolecule mechanism; biosynthetic pathway determination; protein engineering; drug delivery; molecular biology; structural biology; cell biology; glycobiology; molecular imaging and in vivo biology.
Ben was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015, and the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2019. He is Science Director of the Next Generation Chemistry theme and became the Interim Director for the Franklin in November 2023.
Prof Klara HLOUCHOVA (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Why these 20 amino acids and could life function with a different set?
Klara Hlouchova is assistant professor and group leader in the department of cell biology of Charles University in Prague. She graduated with a MSc degree in biochemistry in 2005 and then started her PhD research at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) in Prague under the guidance of Prof. Jan Konvalinka.
She then moved to the University of Colorado Boulder, USA under the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursuer her research on molecular evolution of enzymes and metabolic pathways in the laboratory of Prof. Shelley Copley.
Since 2017, Klara has been developing her independent research at Charles University in Prague where she became assistant professor in 2019. Her research topics focus on the design and characterization of proteins/protein libraries from canonical/reduced/unnatural amino acids by methods of synthetic biology. Her research group is interested in various aspects of protein evolution ranging from astrobiology and origins of life to protein engineering and synthetic life.
| Prof Beate KOKSCH
Construction and degradation of fluorinated biopolymers Freie Universität, Germany |
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Prof. Dr. Beate Koksch studied chemistry at the Technical University Merseburg and University Leipzig in Germany, where she completed a PhD in biochemistry. Following a DFG postdoctoral research fellowship at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, she started her independent career at University of Leipzig in 2000. In 2004, she assumed her position as Organic and Natural Product Chemistry Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research program at FU Berlin focuses on peptide and protein engineering with applications to current problems in biomedicine, biotechnology, and materials science. One key aspect that her research group has devoted its efforts to over the past 20 years is expanding the toolkit of building blocks to include fluorinated aliphatic amino acids to improve the pharmacokinetic and physicochemical profiles of peptide/protein-based drugs and materials, respectively. Advances in these areas rely on the combination of various scientific disciplines such as organic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, material sciences, analytics, and theory, and her group is collaborating with several groups at the Freie Universität Berlin, Max-Planck-Institutions and research goups nationally and internationally. Professor Koksch is a of the Max-Bergmann-Kreis for the Advancement of Peptide Chemistry, the GDCh division of Fluorine Chemists, elected board member of the European Peptide Society as well as serves as Editorial Advisory Board member of several scientific journals and. Professor Koksch had been Director of the DFG Graduate Program “Fluorine as a Key Elements” that was running in Berlin from 2009-2018. She has received the 2021 ACS Award for Creativity in Fluorine Chemistry.
| Prof Norbert SEWALD
Bielefeld University, Germany |
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Norbert Sewald is a professor of Organic, Bioorganic Chemistry, and Chemical Biology at Bielefeld University. He studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich. In 1991, he obtained his Ph.D. thesis in Organic Chemistry with Prof. Burger. From 1991 to 1992, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. J. E. Baldwin at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory at Oxford University. In 1998, he obtained his habilitation at the University of Leipzig. Since 1999, he has been full professor at Bielefeld University.
Prof. Sewald’s research group focuses on non-canonical amino acids and peptidomimetics in peptides and proteins. Special emphasis is placed on enzymatic halogenation, late-stage modification of peptides and peptidomimetics, and tumor targeting.
ncAAs 2024 venue
The ncAAs-2024 “Noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs): Tools for Biological and Biophysical Investigations” meeting will be held on October 14th and 15th, 2024 in Paris.
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This event will be held in Campus des Cordeliers (Sorbonne Université, 15 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris 6e) in the centre of Paris very close to the Latin Quarter situated on the left bank of the Seine. |
Paris is accessible by train or plane (Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly Airport, Beauvais Airport).
The Campus de Cordeliers is accessible by car and public transportation:
Métro: Lines 4 or 10 (Odéon station)
RER B : Saint-Michel or Luxembourg stations
RER C : Saint-Michel station
Bus: Lines 38, 27, 58 (Rue des Ecoles or Odéon stop) and lines 63 et 86 (Cluny stop)
Parking (charged) is available close to the Campus Parking (entrance from rue de l’école de médecine)
Time to the meeting
The 2nd edition of the “Noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs): Tools for Biological and Biophysical Investigations” meeting will be held on October 14th and 15th, 2024 in Paris. The conference is jointly organized by Sorbonne Université and CY Cergy-Paris Université and the GFPP (Groupe Français des Peptides et Protéines – French Peptides Society) will partner with this event.
This event will be held in Campus des Cordeliers (15 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris 6e). It will bring together up to 150 participants, chemists and biologists from public and private sectors. The scientific program will span the interface between chemistry and biology, with the participation of prestigious international speakers.
A considerable part of the congress program will be dedicated to communications presented by young scientists: about 15 oral presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts, and ample space will be available for poster communications. The proceedings of the congress will be published in the form of an abstract book, and partners who agree to sponsor this congress will be acknowledged upfront in this book, as well as on the ncAA website.
All participants will have to register online. For any enquiry, please contact us:
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Looking forward to seeing you in Paris!
The organizing committee
Topics covered by the meeting:
• Cell Free Expression
• Amber codon
• Noncanonical amino acid synthesis
• Expanded genetic code
• Auxotrophic strains
• Protein labeling
• tRNA synthetase engineering
• Single molecule imaging
• Photo-crosslinking
Organizing committee:
Dr Grégory CHAUME (CY Cergy Paris Université, FRANCE)
Dr Maud LARREGOLA (CY Cergy Paris Université, FRANCE)
Prof Olivier LEQUIN (Sorbonne Université, FRANCE)
Dr Emeric MICLET (Sorbonne Université, FRANCE)
Dr Pierre MILBEO (CY Cergy Paris Université, FRANCE)
Dr Chiara ZANATO (CY Cergy Paris Université, FRANCE)
ncAAs 2024 Abstract submission & Guidelines
On the basis of the abstracts submitted, the scientific committee will select 15 short presentations (15 min, question includes), giving preference to young researchers (PhD students or PostDocs).
An ample space will be available for poster communications. Please note that we do not print the posters, but racks & pins will be provided for up to A0 sizes, in portrait format.
The proceedings of the congress will be published in the form of an abstract book
Abstract submission
Please, use the following template to prepare your abstract:
Please name the file as follows: ncAAs 2024_Abstract_YourName
Composition of previous GFPP committees
| 2022-2023* | ||
| Name | Surname | Specific mission |
| Cantel | Sonia | Newsletter |
| Chaume | Grégory | Vice-president |
| Faure | Sophie | President |
| Garanger | Elisabeth | Secretary/social networks |
| Giraud | Matthieu | Social networks |
| Inguimbert | Nicolas | |
| Landon | Céline | Broadcast list |
| Lequin | Olivier | Treasurer |
| Melnyk | Oleg | French EPS representative, Webmaster |
| Milazzo | Isabelle | |
| Sénèque | Olivier | |
| Stefan | Loic | Webteam |
| Tonali | Nicolo | Webteam |
* With the assistance of Frédéric Bihel to the webteam.
| 2019-2022 | ||
| Name | Surname | Specific mission |
| Aucagne | Vincent | |
| Bihel | Fréderic | Webmaster |
| Cantel | Sonia | President |
| Cavelier | Florine | French EPS representative |
| Chaume | Grégory | Secretary |
| Faure | Sophie | Newsletter, Broadcast list |
| Garanger | Elisabeth | |
| Giraud | Matthieu | |
| Inguimbert | Nicolas | Vice-president |
| Lequin | Olivier | Treasurer |
| Milazzo | Isabelle | |
| Ochsenbein | Françoise | |
| Sénèque | Olivier | |
| 2017-2019 | ||
| Name | Surname | Specific mission |
| Aitken | David | Vice-president |
| Aucagne | Vincent | President |
| Ayoub | Mimoun | |
| Bihel | Fréderic | Webmaster |
| Cantel | Sonia | |
| Cavelier | Florine | French EPS representative |
| Chaume | Grégory | Secretary |
| Colau | Arthur | Treasurer |
| Couve-Bonnaire | Samuel | |
| Faure | Sophie | |
| Garanger | Elisabeth | |
| Miclet | Emeric | |
| Ochsenbein | Françoise | |
| Sénèque | Olivier | |
CPP2024 Key Dates
| April 30th, 2024 | Deadline for oral communication submission |
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| May 5th, 2024 | Deadline for poster submission |
| May 5th, 2024 | End of registration |
Abstract submission
Please, use the following template to prepare your abstract:
Please name the file as follows: CPP2024_Abstract_YourName
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GFPP membership for teams
CPP2024 Venue
Montpellier is close to the Mediterranean Sea, in the south-east of France, in the Hérault department, whose territory is defined as an amphitheater open to the sea, bordered by the Cévennes to the north-east and the Haut-Languedoc to the north-west.
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Montpellier is accessible by:
– Plane: Airport Montpellier Méditerrannée
– Train: Station Saint-Roch (in the city center) or Station Montpellier Sud de France (outside of the city)
Thanks to 4 lines of tramway, ample bus services (line 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16), taxis, you can go anywhere your heart desires in and around Montpellier.
The CPP-2024 conference on “Cell-Penetrating peptides: Next generation delivery systems” will be held on June 10-12, 2024, in the Botanical Institute of Montpellier.
“With its four million samples of rare plants kept on six floors, this herbarium is unique in France. Now a property of the University of Montpellier, the collection began with Charles Flahaut in 1889 and then enriched. The oldest pieces may be those of the Chirac collection, the 17th century, or the famous Delile herbarium brought back to Egypt’s campaign in 1798…”
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The Botanical Institute of Montpellier is in the west of Montpellier close to the historic center and is situated at the following address: 163 Rue Auguste Broussonnet, 34090 Montpellier. |
Access via tramway 1 (Station Albert 1er – Saint-Charles) or tramway 4 (Station Albert 1er -Cathedrale)
Different hotels and accommodations are available in the near. Here a selection of hotels that you can contact:
Many other hotels of different categories are also available in the city center (near the Place de la Comédie), located only 5 tramway stations (12 min transportation) from the Conference Hall.
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CPP2024 Key Dates
Please note that registration at the “Cell-Penetrating Peptides: Next generation delivery systems” conference will be limited to the first 200 attendees
| April 30th, 2024 | Deadline for oral communication submission |
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| May 5th, 2024 | Deadline for poster submission |
| May 5th, 2024 | End of registration |
| Registration fees inclue VAT (10%) | |
| Registration types | Fees |
| Students / PhDs | 165 € |
| Academics / PostDocs | 275 € |
| Private company delegates | 330 € |
Registration fees include:
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CPP2024 Invited Speakers
Steven F. Dowdy, Ph.D., is Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine at UCSD School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of California Irvine with Prof. Eric Stanbridge and was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Bob Weinberg at the Whitehead Institute, MIT. In 1994, Dr. Dowdy became an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an Assistant Professor at Washington University School of Medicine. He moved his lab to UCSD in 2001. His early research focused on understanding the molecular basis of G1 cell cycle deregulation during oncogenesis by RB, p16, and cyclin:CDK complexes, determining that cyclin D:CDK4 complexes activated RB by mono-phosphorylation. Concurrently, his research also focused on the intracellular delivery of macromolecular therapeutics, including siRNAs, ASOs, peptides, and proteins. His recent work over the last 10+ years has focused on developing new chemistry to tackle the rate-limiting endosomal escape problem that plagues the intracellular delivery of all macromolecular therapeutics. Dr. Dowdy has been advising biotech and pharmaceutical companies for 35 years, he currently sits on five biotech science advisory boards and is co-founder of Clear Skies Bio. He was an elected board member of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society (OTS) and remains on the OTS science advisory board.
Sarah Jones is a Reader in Pharmacology and a member of the Molecular Pharmacology Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton. For the past 20 years, Sarah’s research has focused on Cell Penetrating Peptides (CPPs) and she has played a major role in the development of bioactive CPPs, bioportides. This has resulted in a paradigm shift from the use of CPPs merely as inert vectors, to their applicability and therapeutic utility as modulators of intracellular protein-protein interactions. Identification of these novel cryptic CPPs within key signaling proteins has resulted in scientific publications regarding the utility of bioportide technology in apoptosis, angiogenesis, and Parkinson’s disease pathophysiology. In 2013, the Molecular Pharmacology Group reported that CPPs readily enter spermatozoa. This development precipitated the subsequent identification of bioportides capable of penetrating human sperm cells to modulate the activities of intracellular proteins that control calcium signaling, motility, and fertilization capacity and as such has laid the foundations for the development of a non-hormonal male contraceptive.
Hanne Mørck Nielsen´s research is focused on drug delivery of biotherapeutics, mainly peptides. Her work is interdisciplinary and involves designing and characterizing functional excipients and drug delivery systems and understanding their delivery propensity related to interactions with biobarriers such as mucus and epithelia, and how this translates to therapeutic responses. Membrane-interacting peptides, and in particular cell-penetrating peptides, their mode of action, and delivery efficiency have been investigated. Hanne Mørck Nielsen completed her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences on buccal drug delivery of peptides on research conducted at the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Denmark and Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, the Netherlands. After a post doc at ETH Zürich, Switzerland working on cell-penetrating peptides, she was employed at the University of Copenhagen and in 2016 promoted to full Professor in Biopharmaceuticals – Drug Design and Delivery. She is Director of the BioDelivery Center and the Drug Delivery and Biophysics of Biopharmaceuticals group at Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen.
Meritxell Teixidó holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Barcelona (UB) and an eMBA in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and International Business from UOC. At a scientific level, her field is the synthesis of peptides and the discovery of peptides capable of crossing biological barriers and she was responsible for this research line at the IRB Barcelona for more than 15 years, where she co-directed 10 doctoral theses, published more than 50 articles and participated in 7 patents.
After dedicating more than 15 years to biomedical research at IRB Barcelona, trying to improve the arrival of drugs to the brain by crossing the blood-brain barrier that protects it. She decided to jump more barriers and be the CEO/CSO of Gate2Brain SL. in order to bring technology closer to patients, a challenge and an honor. Jumping barriers is perhaps the common thread that describes her, combining science and innovation with a new vision on leadership, for which she received the Spanish Woman Startup Award 2022 – Inspiration.
Kaido Kurrikoff focuses his research on drug delivery methods, nucleic acid therapeutics, and nucleic acid diagnostics. His background from the PhD studies is Neuroscience and animal models for CNS-related pathologies. Currently, he is exploring the possibilities of developing CPP-based carrier systems for delivering macromolecular therapeutics. He is focused on development nucleic acid delivery methods through in vivo preclinical models, mainly using cancer gene therapy.
Tamas A. Martinek was born in Szeged, Hungary, in 1973. After obtaining his MSc in Chemistry from University of Szeged, Hungary, in 1996, he earned his PhD degree at the same university in 2001 under the supervision of Ferenc Fülöp and with the guidance of Frank G. Riddell at the University of St. Andrews, UK. He is full professor and the head of the Department of Medical Chemistry, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged. He started his independent career in the field of peptidic foldamers focusing on their controlled secondary and tertiary structures. He is currently active in the field of biomimetic self-organizing systems and their applications in drug discovery: endocytotic cell penetration, antimicrobial foldamers, modulation of protein-protein interactions, light-fueled peptidic replicators.
Astrid Walrant did her PhD in Paris, at the Laboratoire des Biomolecules, Pierre et Marie Curie University, under the supervision of Isabel Alves and Sandrine Sagan, between 2008 and 2011. Her Ph.D. work focused on the analysis of peptide/membrane interactions in the context of cell-penetrating peptides.
In 2012, Dr Walrant joined Jenny Gallop’s group at the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University, as a postdoctoral research fellow. I worked on the regulation of actin polymerization by lipid membranes. My work focused on the regulatory role of certain phosphoinositides, membrane curvature, and curvature-inducing proteins.
In 2014, Dr. Walrant came back to Paris and joined the Laboratoire des Biomolecules as Assistant Professor attached to the Chemistry Faculty. Her research focuses on the analysis of the mechanism of action of membrane-active peptides (cell-penetrating, antimicrobial, viral…) at a molecular level, using biophysical approaches.
Ines Neundorf studied chemistry at the Universities of Freiburg and Leipzig and obtained her diploma in chemistry at the University of Leipzig in 2001. In 2003, she completed her doctorate in organic chemistry there. She then did her Habilitation in Leipzig in the group of Professor Dr. Annette Beck-Sickinger (Venia Legendi in Bioorganic Chemistry). In 2011, during the completion of her Habilitation, she accepted the offer of a junior professorship (with tenure track) in biochemistry at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Biochemistry. In 2016, she was tenured as W2 Professor of Biochemistry. Since 2022, she has been Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Early-Career Researchers at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. She is a member of the University of Cologne’s Advisory Board for Equal Opportunities and since October 2023 she is Vice-Rector for Academic Career and Staff Development.
Her main research interests are in the fields of bioactive peptides, such as: antimicrobial peptides, cell-penetrating peptides, organelle targeting sequences, peptide synthesis and modification, peptides in tumor diagnosis and therapy. Her research results have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and she is co-author of >90 peer-reviewed publications and 4 book chapters. Ines Neundorf is an associate editor of Scientific Reports and since 2013, she has been a member of the Max-Bergmann-Kreis e.V., a network promoting research work in peptide chemistry in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Taavi Lehto received his PhD in 2011 in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tartu (Estonia). After post-doctoral stints at University of Montpellier with Prof. Bernard Lebleu, University of Munich with Prof. Ernst Wagner and Karolinska Institute with Prof. Edvard Smith/Prof. Samir EL Andaloussi, he moved back to his native Estonia in 2019 to start his own research group at the Institute of Technology at University of Tartu. His lab is focusing on the development of various peptidic/polymeric drug delivery systems for the delivery of nucleic acid-/RNA-based therapeutic modalities.
Christian Widmann received his MSc in biology in 1986. He obtained his PhD at the Biochemistry Institute of the University of Lausanne in 1991 under the supervision of Giampietro Corradin. He then worked on the GLP1 receptor as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Bernard Thorens until 1995. Christian obtained a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 1996 to move to the laboratory of Gary L. Johnson at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, where he worked as a research associate on MAPK pathways until 1998. In 1999, he moved back to Europe and started his own research group at the University Hospital in Lausanne. In 2002, he got an assistant professor position at the Department of Cell Biology and Morphology at the University of Lausanne.
Since 2006, he is an associate professor at the Department of Physiology of the University of Lausanne (now Department of Biomedical Sciences). The first wave of his research was centered on the regulation of cellular stress and how a better understanding of these mechanisms at the molecular level could lead to the development of therapeutic compounds to treat various diseases such as cancer, microbial infections, and diabetes. The current focus of his laboratory is on the mechanisms of entry of cell permeable peptides
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The French Peptide Society
Our missions
The French Group of Peptides and Proteins (GFPP) is a society funded in 1978 which brings together around 200 members who are de facto the participants in biennial congresses of the GFPP. It is administered by an executive commitee composed of twelve members elected during these congresses, as well as the French delegate at the European Peptide Society (EPS) who is elected every four years by the French EPS members.
The missions of the GFPP are:
1) to promote the development of research in the field of peptide and protein science.
2) to stimulate the circulation of national and international scientific informations in these fields. With this in mind, the GFPP organizes its congress every two years (4 to 5 days), short thematic meetings (1 to 3 days) and manages a mailing list.
3) to participate in the training of young researchers, engineers and technicians from French laboratories. The GFPP regularly awards grants to: participate in international congresses in the field of peptides / proteins or fund inter-laboratory exchanges to disseminate new techniques and / or train young scientists in multidisciplinary approaches.
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| GFPP23 |
| Best poster communication awards |
GFPP23 organized in September 2023 in Fournols (France) gave the opportunity to young talented people to present their research. The selection committee was impressed by the high quality of the poster presentations and has selected two awardees. We warmly thank Genepep for sponsoring the award competition.
GFPP23 awardees are Lucille Weiss (LIT, University of Strasbourg, France) and Francisco Tomas Ribeiro (DBS, University of Lausanne, Switzerland).
| GFPP23 |
| Best oral communication awards |
GFPP23 organized in September 2023 in Fournols (France) gave the opportunity to young talented people to present their latest research. The committee was impressed by the high quality of the oral presentations and has selected two awardees. We warmly thank Genepep for sponsoring the award competition.
GFPP23 awardees are Benjamin Grain (CIIL, Lille, France) and Sonia Khemaissa (LBM, Sorbonne University, France).
| Aurélie Tasiemski |
| The environment shapes immune peptides |
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) play a key role in the external immunity of animals, offering an interesting model for studying the influence of the environment on the diversification and evolution of immune effectors. Alvinellacin (ALV), arenicin (ARE) and polaricin (POL, a novel AMP identified here), characterized from three marine worms inhabiting contrasted habitats (‘hot’ vents, temperate and polar respectively), possess a well conserved BRICHOS domain in their precursor molecule despite a profound amino acid and structural diversification of the C-terminal part containing the core active peptide.
| Peter Faller |
| Transporting Cu into Cells with a Peptide |
In Alzheimer’s disease (AD) copper ions accumulates in amyloid plaques, a hallmark of this disease. This copper likely originating from intracellular sources. The Cu in amyloid plaques is bound to its main constituent, the peptide amyloid-β (Aβ). Cu-Aβ can catalyze the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in vitro and is thought to contribute to the oxidative stress observed in AD. The paper reports on the development of a novel Cu shuttle able to restore the Cu balance between intra- and extracellular Cu. (more…)
| Jean-Philippe Combier |
| Short peptides to replace chemicals in agronomy |
The current agriculture main challenge is to maintain food production while facing multiple threats such as increasing world population, temperature increase, lack of agrochemicals due to health issues and uprising of weeds resistant to herbicides. Developing novel, alternative, and safe methods is hence of paramount importance. Here we show that complementary peptides (cPEPs) from any gene can be designed to target specifically plant coding genes. (more…)
| Gilles Subra (Zervas Award 2020) |
| Moulding proteins with amino acids |
Gilles Subra received the Zervas award from the EPS in 2022 during the 36th EPS meeting in Sitges (Spain). With this recent article, he shares with us some of the innovative work pursued in his team.
MIP (molecular imprinted polymers) are prepared by polymerizing monomers around a template. After the removal of the template, the cavities in the material will be able to recognise and recapture selectively the molecule of interest. (more…)
Journal of Peptide Science, EarlyView.
Journal of Peptide Science, EarlyView.
Registrations to the 23rd GFPP are now open Key Dates for Registration : 15th January 2023 : opening of registration 15th April 2023 : deadline for young researcher GFPP bursary applications. 15th May 2023 : end of early bird fee for registration. Key Dates for Abstract submission: 15th April 2023 : deadline for oral communications …
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Other events sponsored by GFPP
| Year | Meeting title | City |
| 2022 | 7th International Symposium on Antimicrobial Peptides – AMP2022 | Paris |
| 2022 | Ecole thématique du GDR MuFoPAM PAMOMICS | Roscoff |
| 2022 | MBP 2022. International Conference on Metal-Binding Peptides: Methodologies and Applications | Nancy |
| 2021 | 2nd PEPPERSchool | Virtual event |
| 2018 | Pepperschool | Carry-Le-Rouet |
| 2016 | Ecole thématique GDR MuFoPam | Beg Meil |
| 2015 | Symposium Foldamères | Bordeaux |
| 2013 | Paris Foldamers 2013 Symposium (COST Action CM0803) | Paris |
| 2012 | Bordeaux 2012 Symposium on Foldamers (COST Action CM0803) | Bordeaux |
| 2010 | Congrès international d’endocrinologie | Rouen |
Past Thematic Days
Past GFPP meetings
| Year | City | Meeting number | Website |
| 2025 | 23 | Soon | |
| 2023 | Fournols | 23 | Website |
| 2022 | Port-Leucate | 22 | Website |
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Dr Sonia Cantel
Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron
IBMM, UMR 5247, Montpellier – France
Steven Ballet
Organic Chemistry Research Group
OCRG, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel – Belgium
Nicolas Inguimbert
CRIOBE
USR 3278, Perpignan – France
Annemieke Madder
Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry
Universiteit Gent, Gent – Belgium
Vincent Aucagne
Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM, UPR 4301) Orléans
Steven Ballet
Organic Chemistry Research Group (OCRG, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Brussel
Frédéric Bihel
Laboratoire d’innovation thérapeutique (UMR7200) Strasbourg
Sonia Cantel
Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM, UMR 5247) Montpellier
Florine Cavelier
Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM, UMR 5247) Montpellier
Grégory Chaume
Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique (LCB, EA 4505) Cergy-Pontoise
Sophie Faure
Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF, UMR 6296) Clermond-Ferrand
Elisabeth Garanger
Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO, UMR 5629) Bordeaux
Matthieu Giraud
CordenPharma International, Switzerland
Nicolas Inguimbert
Centre de Recherche et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE, USR 3278) Perpignan
Olivier Lequin
Laboratoire des Biomolécules (UMR 7203, Paris)
Annemieke Madder
Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Universiteit Gent, Gent
Françoise Ochsenbein
CEA Saclay (IBITEC-S/SB2SM/LBSR) Gif sur Yvette
Isabelle Segalas-Milazzo
COBRA (UMR 6014), Rouen
Olivier Sénèque
Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux (UMR 5249, CEA) Grenoble
Dirk Tourwé
Organic Chemistry Research Group (OCRG, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Brussel
The Compliance Leader will be working as part of the Corden Pharma Brussels Quality Assurance Department and ensure that the products are manufactured, stored and packaged in accordance with cGMP regulation. The Compliance Leader will be working as part of the Quality Unit on site ensuring products are manufactured, stored and packaged in accordance with the cGMP. Under the direction of the Head of Quality, he/she will be in charge to improve continuously the Quality system regarding the cGMP requirements. He/She will be a QA support in case of quality issues and problem solving techniques to assure the successful outcomes of company and external Health Authority. He/She will be in direct contact with our customer in case of qualification audit, QA complaint issues and other quality topics. The Compliance Leader is reporting to the Head of Quality.
November 22, 2019 | Brussels, Belgium
The objective of the event is to discuss the multifaceted therapeutic potential of peptides. Topics such as peptidomimetics and macrocycles, protein-protein interactions, peptide shuttles, chemical ligation and main aspects of peptide synthesis will be tackled.
The confirmed speakers are:
• Linkers for Peptide Conjugation
Prof. Fernando Albericio, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
• Synthetic Immune System Engagers – a Peptide-based Approach to Immune-oncology
Prof. Christian Becker, University of Vienna, Austria
• From Structure to Function: Peptide Recognition at G Protein-coupled Receptors
Dr Anette Kaiser, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Macrocyclization as an Enabling Tool Toward Novel Peptide Drug Candidates
Prof. Eric Marsault, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
• Targeting Receptor Complexes: A New Dimension in Drug Discovery
Prof. Kristian Strømgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Gate2Brain, Opening the Gate to CNS Therapies
Dr Meritxell Teixido, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain
All participants are invited to submit abstracts for scientific communications. Out of the submitted proposals, 3 Oral Communications will be selected. The other accepted abstracts will get the opportunity to be presented as Posters.
Submission deadline: October 10, 2019
More information is available on www.medchem.be
Closing lecture
Please find below the finalized speaker list, after a couple of last minute changes.
University of Cambridge, UK
Royal Society Newton International Fellow in Prof. Gonçalo BERNARDES group
« Title to be announced »
Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
« Chemical synthesis of membrane-associated peptides: studies on influenza virus B protein BM2 »
Synthetic Biology Group, ACIB – Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Graz , Austria
« Engineering of proteins with non-canonical amino acids in industrial biotechnology »
We are pleased to announce that the next meeting of the French Peptides and Proteins Group will be held in Amboise (Région Centre-Val-de-Loire), from Sunday 12th to Thursday 16th May 2019, in the beautiful and historic Loire valley area.
Note that 2019 will be the 41th anniversary of the creation of the GFPP and also the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci, who spent his last years in Amboise, in the Chateau du Clos-Lucé, located a few kilometers away from the conference center.
We have gathered a rich program of plenary speakers, spanning cutting-edge themes in the peptide and protein science field.
A large part of the program will be dedicated to oral communications from young scientists. As usual, around 20 grants will be attributed to young investigators to cover their registration fees.
The official language of the congress is English. For any enquiry, please contact us.
Looking forward to seeing you in Amboise !
The GFPP board members
1st November 2018 : opening of registration and abstract submission
18th January 2019 : deadline for oral communications submissions and young researchers bursary applications.
1st March 2019 : end of early bird fees for registration.
15th March 2019 : deadline for poster communication abstract submission. 1st April 2019 : end of registration.12th May 2019, 6:30 pm : official opening of the congress
Note that the above-mentionned fees apply for twin room accomodation (academic or private company delegates) or triple rooms (students/postdoc). A single room option will be available (not applicable for students/postdocs) at a supplementary cost of 150 € for academic delegate and of 130 € for private company delegate.
