The Laboratoire de Biophysique Moléculaire aux Interfaces (LBMI) is part of the “Chimie des agrobiosystèmes” axis in the AGROBIOCHEM Department of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech and of the biophysics platform. The unit is a research laboratory devoted to molecular biophysics and computer assisted modelling. Our research activities are mainly focused on the study of the interaction between biomolecules (from proteins to small organic molecules) with the membrane by complementary biophysical tools to understand their structure/activity relationships.

 


NEWS AND EVENTS

Our PhD student, Emily Claereboudt is in course for having her project on the sequencing of the sea cucumber subsidiated. Vote to help her winning! Just one click on the following link:

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Sea Cucumber – #GoForScabra

 


 

Magali Deleu and Laurence Lins are Guest Editors of a Special Issue on « SAR out of the Box » in IJMS

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IJMS special issue


 

!New publications from LBMI!

Claereboudt, E, Eeckhaut, I, Lins, L*, Deleu, M* (2018) How different sterols contribute to saponin tolerant plasma membranes in sea cucumbers. Sci Rep, 8, 10845

Claereboudt, E, Sci Rep

Lebecque, S, Crowet, JM, Lins,L, delory, B, Du Jardin, P, Fauconnier, ML, Deleu, M. (2018) Interaction between the barley allelochemical compounds gramine and hordenine and artificial lipid bilayers mimicking the plant plasma membrane. Sci. Rep., 8, 9784

Lebecque, Sci Rep

Crowet, JM, Nasir, MN, Dony, N, Deschamps, A, Stroobant, V, Morsomme, P, Deleu, M, Soumillion P, Lins, L (2018) Insight into the self asembling properties of peptergents : a molecular dynamics simulation study. IJMS, 19, 2772

Crowet, IJMS


 

Jules Petit, one of our PhD students was rewarded twice for his communication at the SFR Condorcet young student day and at the GEM congress:

http://www.gembloux.ulg.ac.be/blog/deux-chercheurs-gembloutois-recompenses/

 


New article published in Science in collaboration with Pr T. Nürnberger lab and Pr S. Mongrand Lab

« Eudicot plant-specific sphingolipids determine host selectivity of microbial NLP cytolysins » T. Lenarcic et al, 2017, 358, 1431-1434

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6369/1431

 

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Our eLife article in the spotlight on the ULiege website

« COMPRENDRE COMMENT LES PLANTES REPONDENT AUX AGRESSIONS DE PATHOGENES »

on https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_9566566/fr/comprendre-comment-les-plantes-repondent-aux-agressions-de-pathogenes


LBMI’s lab was co-organisor of the XIX GEM (Groupe d’Etude des Membranes) that was held at Roscoff in november 2017.

 

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Presentation of Valbran on Daily Science

« VALBRAN VA METTRE DU SON DE BLÉ DANS VOTRE LESSIVEUSE »

on http://dailyscience.be/2017/09/27/valbran-va-mettre-du-son-de-ble-dans-votre-lessiveuse/

 


 

Relevant publications

Complementary biophysical tools to investigate lipid specificity in the interaction between bioactive molecules and the plasma membrane: A review.

Magali Deleu, Jean-Marc Crowet, Mehmet N. Nasir, Laurence Lins *

Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014 Dec;1838(12):3171-3190

doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2014.08.023

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