Frédéric Coutrot
Function : Assistant Professor (permanent staff)
Team : D2 - Supramolecular Machines & Achitectures Team
Employer : Université de Montpellier
Professional Email : frederic.coutrot[a]umontpellier.fr
Office No. : N2I05
Phone : 04 48 79 21 46
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Biography
Frédéric Coutrot was born in Paris, France, in 1973. From 1996 to 1999, he focused on the stereoselective synthesis and conformational study of non-natural glycosidic amino acids and obtained his Ph.D. in 1999 from Henri Poincaré University (Nancy, France), for which he received the national thesis award from the organic chemistry division of the French Chemical Society.
He then joined Dr. Michel Marraud's laboratory (ENSIC, Nancy) as both a post-doctoral research fellow and temporary lecturer for a year, during which he studied myasthenia gravis diseases by synthesizing various dodecapeptide fragments of the acetylcholine receptor and studying their conformation by high-resolution NMR and molecular modeling, both alone and in the presence of their monoclonal antibody.
At the end of 2000, he received a Marie Curie European Fellowship to work in Professor David Leigh's laboratory (United Kingdom), focusing on the synthesis of interlocked molecules such as peptide rotaxanes.
In 2002, he was appointed assistant professor, then associate professor at the University of Montpellier (France). He is currently working on original interlocked molecular machines (rotaxanes, lassos, molecular muscles of various natures, both in peptide and glucidic series) as the head of the SMART (Supramolecular Molecules and Architectures Team) at the Max Mousseron Institute of Biomolecules.
He then joined Dr. Michel Marraud's laboratory (ENSIC, Nancy) as both a post-doctoral research fellow and temporary lecturer for a year, during which he studied myasthenia gravis diseases by synthesizing various dodecapeptide fragments of the acetylcholine receptor and studying their conformation by high-resolution NMR and molecular modeling, both alone and in the presence of their monoclonal antibody.
At the end of 2000, he received a Marie Curie European Fellowship to work in Professor David Leigh's laboratory (United Kingdom), focusing on the synthesis of interlocked molecules such as peptide rotaxanes.
In 2002, he was appointed assistant professor, then associate professor at the University of Montpellier (France). He is currently working on original interlocked molecular machines (rotaxanes, lassos, molecular muscles of various natures, both in peptide and glucidic series) as the head of the SMART (Supramolecular Molecules and Architectures Team) at the Max Mousseron Institute of Biomolecules.