Prix
The SBCF is delighted to award its 2025 Young researcher prize to Marine Laporte who currently holds a CNRS research position in the CNRS UMR 5284 INSERM U1314 “Mécanismes en sciences intégratives du vivant” (MéLis) joint research unit at the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon.
Since her PhD at the Grenoble Neuroscience Institute and her post-doctoral training in the Cell Biology Department at the University of Geneva, and continuing through her appointment to the Cilia Assembly and Development team at Lyon-1 University, Marine Laporte’s research has consistently highlighted the remarkable versatility of the ESCRT machinery.
The ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport) system is a membrane-remodeling complex that is highly conserved throughout evolution. Marine Laporte’s work has contributed to a deeper understanding of its functions both in the nervous system, where ESCRT regulates neuronal development and excitability, and at the centriole, where it is critically involved in the assembly of primary cilia at the cell surface.
She will receive her award at the SBCF Annual General Meeting, which will be held at Institut Cochin (Paris, 75014) on the 5th of June 2025. We will then have the pleasure of hearing her talk entitled “Understanding ESCRT Function in Ciliary Membrane Dynamics”.
