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Dr. Aurelie Dupont

Research projects

The common point of my different projects and thus the main focus of my ressearch is about 3D tracking. I am interested in the Foamy virus replication cycle which is studied by the tracking of fluorescent viruses from 3D movies acquired on a spinning-disk microscope. I am also using and improving an original 3D tracking microscope which allows the tracking in real-time of single fluorescent particles with nanometer and millisecond accuracy. This setup is applied to several biological questions such as single virus tracking in living cells during their infection.

Curriculum Vitae

Jan. 09 - Postdoctoral fellow in Don Lamb's group. LMU, Munich.
Sept. 05 - Dec. 08 PhD candidate under the supervision of Giovanni Cappello in Institut Curie, Paris. "Homologous recombination at the single molecule scale: torsion and torque measurements.".
2004 - 2005 Master degree in "Physics and biological systems". Lab training in Institut Curie, Paris: "High time space resolution study of the Neurospora Crassa kinesin step."
2003 - 2004 Maitrise in Physics, ENS Lyon. Lab training in Doug Smith group, UC San Diego, USA: "Optical tweezers: PCR DNA preparation and force spectroscopy."
2002 - 2003 Licence in Physics, ENS Lyon. Lab training in Steve Leone group, UC Berkeley, USA:"Growth and characterization of Zinc oxyde nanorods.".

Publications

  • A. Dupont and D. C. Lamb. "Nanoscale three-dimensional single particle tracking." Nanoscale In press
  • V. Baumgärtel, S. Ivanchenko, A. Dupont, M. Sergeev, P. W. Wiseman, H.-G. Kräusslich, C. Bräuchle, B. Müller and D. C. Lamb. "Live-cell visualization of dynamics of HIV budding site interactions with an ESCRT component." Nature Cell Biology (2011) 13, 469-474.
  • H. Arata*, A. Dupont*, J. Mine-Hattab, L. Disseau, A. Renodon-Cornieres, M. Takahashi, J.-L. Viovy and G. Cappello. (*):contributed equally. "Direct observation of twisting steps during Rad51 polymerization on DNA." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2009) 106, 19239-19244.
  • C.W. Blackledge, J.M. Szarko, A. Dupont, G.H. Chan, E.L. Read, S.R. Leone. "Zinc oxyde nanorod growth on gold islands prepared by microsphere litography on silicon and quartz." J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2007) 7, 3336-3339.
  • L. Busoni, A. Dupont, C. Symonds, J. Prost and G. Cappello. "Short time investigation of the Neurospora Crassa kinesin step." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2006) 18 S1957-S1966.
  • D.N. Fuller, G.J. Gemmen, J.P. Rickgauer, A. Dupont, R. Millin, P. Recouvreux, D.E. Smith. "A general method for manipulating DNA sequences from any organism with optical tweezers." Nucleic Acids Research (2006) 34 e15.

Contact

Room: E1.003
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 2180-77537
E-Mail: Aurelie.Dupont"at"cup.uni-muenchen.de
Personal webpage

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