Jean-Christophe Baret
CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal,
France
JCB is Full Professor at the University of Bordeaux and Group Leader at the CNRS Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal. He is a former ERC StG and PoC grantee which led to the creation of the company Emulseo in Bordeaux. He is Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and currently the coordinator of the SigSynCell Doctoral Network. Over the past years he developed microfluidic approaches for the construction of synthetic cell, focusing on the structuration of microcompartments from soft matter systems on the one hand and on energy management on the other hand. Combining both leads to the construction of synthetic systems usable under out of equilibrium conditions, mimicking in a minimal approach the behaviour of living cells.
Selected references
- Light-powered CO2 fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts, T. E. Miller, T. Beneyton, T. Schwander, C. Diehl, M. Girault, R. McLean, T. Chotel, P. Claus, N. Socorro Cortina, J.-C. Baret, T.J. Erb Science 368, 6491, pp. 649-654 (2020)
- Sequential bottom-up assembly of mechanically stabilized synthetic cells by microfluidics, M. Weiss, J. P. Frohnmayer, L. T. Benk, B. Haller, J.-W. Janiesch, T. Heitkamp, M. Boersch, R. B. Lira, R. Dimova, R. Lipowsky, E. Bodenschatz, J.-C. Baret, T. Vidakovic-Koch, K. Sundmacher, I. Platzman & J. P. Spatz, Nature Materials, 17, 89-96 (2018)
- Out-of-equilibrium microcompartments for the bottom-up integration of metabolic functions, T. Beneyton, D. Krafft, C. Bednarz, C. Kleineberg, C. Woelfer, I. Ivanov, T. Vidakovic-Koch, K. Sundmacher and J.-C. Baret, Nature Communications, 9:2391 (2018)