Funded projects

Ongoing research projects: (*=PI)

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• 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​

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• 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

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• 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

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Past research projects :

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

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• 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