Funded projects

Ongoing research projects: (*=PI)

RevORIA | Reverse chemical ecology using in vivo and AI approaches for understanding the evolution of host preferences in insect herbivores
Funded by CNRS (MITI - Prime80), 2022-2025

DeepLigGPCR* | Novel proteo-chemometric approaches guided by artificial intelligence methods for the rational design of novel GPCR ligands
Funded by CNRS (MITI - Science for AI, AI for science), 2022-2023

Perfume comparison by combination of machine learning and analytical chemistry* | PhD thesis (Jean-Baptiste Coffin)
Funded by ANRT (Cifre n°2021/1176), 2022-2025
DeepORLig* | Décrypter le code combinatoire de l'olfaction
Funded by GENCI (n°AD010713580, n°A0140714144) 2022-2023
Chemosim* | Rational design of chemosensory compounds targeting smell, taste and emotion
Funded by ANR (ANR-19-CE07-0044), PRCE, 2020-2024

Past research projects :

Demeter | Bio-olfacticides : more food and less pesticides in insect control
Funded by ANR (ANR-16-CE21-0002), ‘major societal challenges’, 2017-2022

Chemokit | Chemosensory Kit for olfaction and taste training through project-based learning
Funded by UCA EUR (Formal, Physical & Engineering Sciences) 2020-2021
Molecular basis of chemosensory perception* | PhD thesis (Cédric Bouysset)
Funded by MESR , 2018-2021.
Awarded by Giract "Best PhD thesis" 2022 and “1st year thesis award” 2018, Selected for the "Google Summer of Code" 2020, UCA Complex Days “Best Poster Prize” 2019, SFCi “best oral communication” 2019, Gen Foundation 2019, ECRO Travel grant 2019, UCA “Young Scientist award” 2019
NumTaste* | Designing new numerical model-guided bitter taste modulators
Funded by UCA, Academy 2 – Complex Systems, 2020
Computational Nose | A computational nose: decoding odor perception by all-atom molecular simulations of human olfactory receptors
Funded by PRACE 2017 & GENCI 2018-2019
NeurOlf | Predicting odorant-dependent and independent olfactory neuron activation based on receptor dynamics
Funded by ANR/NSF-NIH, Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience, 2015-2019

AI-Sweet* | Numerical models for predicting sweet taste perception.
Funded by UCA Idex, projet C@UCA, 2018
Molecular modeling of the sweet taste perception : structural and dynamic approches* | PhD thesis (Jean-Baptiste Chéron)
Funded by MESR , 2014-2017
Awarded by Giract “1st year thesis award” 2014, COST GLISTEN 2014, SFCi “best oral communication” 2015, Gen Foundation 2016, ISOT 2016, UCA “Young Scientist award” 2016
Biodiv-Nudix | Utilisation de la biodiversité des roses botaniques pour l’étude du rôle d’une NUDIX hydrolase dans la biosynthèse du parfum
Funded by CNRS ‘Mission Interdisciplinaire’, PEPS interdisciplinaire EXOMOD, 2014-2015
CLIO* | Chemogenomic Links In Olfaction
funded by Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, AAP CSI, 2014
Modeling of membrane metabolon
funded by PHC AURORA, 2013-2014
Molecular modeling study of multienzymatic systems involved in flavonoid biosynthesis | PhD thesis (Julien Diharce)
Funded by MESR, 2011-2014
Awarded by GGMM “Best PhD thesis” 2017
MultiDock* | Multiresolution and multicomponent docking of large biomolecular assembly
funded by PHC PROCOPE, 2012-2013
Nadyn | DNA nanoparticles functionalized by Dynein peptide ligands for the improvement of their intracellular trafficking
funded by ANR programme Blanc, 2009-2012