{"id":27561,"date":"2006-04-01T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/?p=27561"},"modified":"2023-11-03T12:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:35:21","slug":"brice-kauffmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/blog\/2006\/04\/brice-kauffmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Brice Kauffmann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brice Kauffmann, a former postdoc at EMBL Hamburg, was recently the winner of a silkscreen painting as the 1,000th<\/sup> person to register with the Alumni Association, in which there are now 1,050 members. Now a Senior Scientist at the CNRS Institut Europ\u00e9en de Chimie et Biologie (IECB), Pessac, France, Brice was delighted: “That’s the first time I’ve won something!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brice, what made you return home to France?<\/strong>
I went back because the CNRS is the largest fundamental research organisation in Europe. IECB in Bordeaux hosts outstanding European chemists and biologists working in a multidisciplinary environment and is open to partnerships with academic and industrial research centres. They were looking for a crystallographer; I got the job through competition, which is how all civil servants (including tenured scientists at CNRS) are recruited in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s challenging about this job?<\/strong>
I’m responsible for the X-ray diffraction and small angle scattering facility. What’s really exciting is that I have two state-of-the-art machines that allow me to study the 3D structures of molecules of biological interest. In terms of research, I work mainly on topics from the local groups, as the facility is brand new and needs to be optimised. I hope to develop my own research with external collaborations soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did EMBL prepare you for this position?<\/strong>
As a postdoc at EMBL Hamburg (2004-06), I worked on methodological protein crystallography with synchrotron radiation. As a member of Manfred Weiss team, I followed and participated in the building of the new beamline (X12). This experience has been invaluable in setting up the facility here. I was also involved in providing support to the users of the beamline, which was good training as I now help people everyday in collecting data on my machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you still in touch with EMBL colleagues?<\/strong>
I’m currently working with another EMBL alumnus, Sebastien Fribourg, formerly of Elena Conti’s group, who is starting a structural biology group in our institute. I don’t have an official collaboration yet but intend to establish one. I’d like to keep an eye on what’s happening at EMBL, which is also why I joined the Alumni Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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