Sébastien DUTERTRE is a CNRS researcher at the Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM) in Montpellier, France. For the past 20 years, he has been working in the field of toxinology, including the discovery, synthesis and characterisation of toxins from the venom of various animals. He conducted his PhD studies on short disulfide rich peptides isolated from cone snail venoms (scholarship from the University of Queensland, 2002-2005) in the laboratory of Prof. Richard Lewis at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (Australia). After being awarded his PhD from the University of Queensland in 2006, he obtained a prestigious EMBO postdoctoral fellowship to work at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research (Germany) in the laboratory of Professor Heinrich Betz on the structure-function of ion channels (2006-2007). Next, he joined Atheris laboratories (Switzerland), to work on a European funded project dedicated to the discovery and development of venom peptides as therapeutics (2008-2009; CONCO project FP6). In 2010, he was awarded a competitive UQ postdoctoral fellowship to resume his work on cone snail venoms in Prof. Richard Lewis’ group at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. Since 2014 at the Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron, he develops an integrated approach to accelerate the discovery of novel peptides from animal venoms using transcriptomics and proteomics, as well as regio-selective strategies for the synthesis of disulfide rich peptides.