Manuela Zoonens is a biochemist especially interested by the field of membrane proteins.
She was trained in the laboratory of Jean-Luc Popot. During her thesis, she studied the solution properties of complexes formed between membrane proteins and amphipols.
As post-doc, she worked on the understanding of membrane protein insertion in the lipid bilayer at Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) in Don M. Engelman’s Laboratory.
Back to France in Daniel Ricquier’s laboratory at Necker Hospital, she started to work on an uncoupling mitochondrial carrier. She is pursuing this project and the development of amphipols for membrane protein studies since her recruitment as a tenure Researcher at the CNRS in 2010.
Laboratoire de Biologie Physico-Chimique des Protéines Membranaires UMR 7099 - IBPC
13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie F-75005 Paris, France
Mail : mzoonens(at)gmail.com
Lab Web page: http://www.ibpc.fr/UMR7099/
Amphipol Web page: http://www.ibpc.fr/popot/amphipol/