[Todos] SEMINARIO HOY

[Fernando V. Molina]

Lunes 21 de julio de 2008 - 13 hs

Aula de Seminarios del INQUIMAE, 3er piso Pab. II


Dr. Thibaud Coradin
Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée, Paris



Bio-controlled materials

Abstract:
The observation of natural living mineralized 
structures indicates that a real synergy exists 
between the biological component, which controls 
the formation of the inorganic phase, and the 
mineral component, which stabilizes the living 
system chemically and physically. On this basis, 
we are trying to elaborate hybrid or composite 
materials that associate biopolymers or living 
cells with mineral phases obtained by soft 
chemical routes for applications in pharmacy and 
biotechnology. In this presentation, we will show 
how it is possible to use biological 
macromolecules to control the growth of 
nanostructured oxides and metals in order to 
design drug carriers and biosensors. We will also 
address the possibility to use whole cells as 
bioreactors for nanomaterial production, a first 
step towards "living" materials.

CV resumido:
Thibaud Coradin received his PhD in 1997 in the 
field of Intercalation Chemistry from the 
Université Paris XI. He was then a post-doctoral 
fellow at the Royal Institution of Great Britain 
in London working on molecular magnets. He was 
then a temporary lecturer in the Ecole Nationale 
Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, studying 
organometallics and spin-trapping systems via EPR 
and ENDOR. In 1999, he was appointed as a CNRS 
Research Fellow in the Laboratoire de Chimie de 
la Matière Condensée de Paris (LCMCP), working 
with Pr J. Livage on silica biomineralization and 
sol-gel bioencapsulation. Since 2005, after 
obtaining his Habilitation from the Université 
Paris VI, he is leading the "Bio-controlled 
Materials" group of the LCMCP and has extended 
his research interest to the development of 
"green" sol-gel chemistry, based on the use of 
biological systems, including biopolymers and 
whole-cells, to design bio-functional nanohybrids 
and nanocomposites. In 2007, he was appointed as 
a CNRS Research Director in the LCMCP. Thibaud 
Coradin co-authored over 70 publications and 10 
book chapters. He gave 11 invited talks in 
international meetings. He has supervised about 
20 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. He has 
been involved in the organization of several 
national and international meetings. He is a 
member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Current 
Medicinal Chemistry and a regular referee for 
Chem. Commun., Chem. Mater., J. Mater. Chem et Langmuir.


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