[Seminar] EUTOPIA Seminar

Speaker: Pierre Milbeo

Affiliation: CY BioCIS Team

Abstract: The BioCIS laboratory is a research unit of the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) dedicated to the design, synthesis, and evaluation of biomolecules.

The research team, based at CY Cergy Paris Université (a member of the EUTOPIA Alliance), focuses on chemistry oriented towards the life sciences. Team members specialize in the chemistry of modified amino acids and peptides (particularly fluorinated), glycosides, glycopeptides, and nucleosides, for applications in biological and medicinal chemistry. Their expertise includes organofluorine and glycoside chemistry, organometallic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, automated peptide synthesis, structural and biophysical analyses, and chemical biology.

The aim of this seminar is to provide a brief overview of the BioCIS team's expertise, highlighting the various research areas currently being explored in the laboratory. Among them, special attention will be given to selected ongoing research projects and their corresponding PIs, who are eager to collaborate within the EUTOPIA Alliance framework. The seminar will cover the use of fluorinated amino acids in designing novel peptides for various applications, the catalytic functionalization of glycosides and nucleosides, and the team's recent interest in targeted protein degradation and translational chemical biology.

The seminar will be presented by Dr. Pierre Milbeo, an associate professor at CY Cergy Paris Université who has been part of the BioCIS research team since 2021 and a member of the EUTOPIA Young Leader Academy since 2023. His research expertise encompasses peptide engineering, asymmetric synthesis, fluorine chemistry, and catalysis. As the EUTOPIA ambassador for CY Cergy Paris Université and the BioCIS laboratory, he aims to promote new collaborations between research groups within the EUTOPIA Alliance.