Dr. Marion Jasnin
Principal Investigator Helmholtz Pioneer CampusResearch Area
Marion received her PhD in Biophysics from Joseph Fourier University in 2007 under Professor Giuseppe Zaccai, where she exploited neutron scattering to explore water dynamics and macromolecular motions directly inside living cells. Her early postdoctoral work in the Department of Professor Wolfgang Baumeister at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry was supported by two postdoctoral fellowships (EMBO and Marie Curie fellowships, 2011-2013), and the award of an HFSP Program Grant (2016-2021) gave her the opportunity to start her own subgroup. With Renaud Poincloux / IPBS, she then obtained an ANR-DFG grant (cryoAdhesome, 2020-2024) to establish podosomes as a model system for structure-function analysis of the actin cytoskeleton in a cellular system that has direct implications for in vivo function, such as during bone turnover, tissue and cancer invasion. She also recently built a consortium with teams from the Institut Jacques-Monod, LPTMS and Sorbonne University to model podosome mechanics from the molecular scale up to the mesoscale, and were awarded an MIC grant (2020-2023). In 2022, she joined the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus as a Principal Investigator.
Professional Background
Principal Investigator – Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz Munich
Project Group Leader – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Postdoc (Wolfgang Baumeister) – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Postdoc (Giuseppe Zaccai) – Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)
Graduate Student (Giuseppe Zaccai and Moevea Tehei) – Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS)
Master Student (Daniel Riveline) – Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LIPhy)
Student Intern (Nils O. Petersen) – Western University, Department of Chemistry
Honors and Awards
2020-2024
ANR-DFG NLE 2020 – Individual Research Grant (CryoAdhesome, Grant number JA-3038/2-1)2020-2023
ITMO Cancer Aviesan call 2020 – Participation in an MIC Grant (Multiscale Modelling of Invadosome Force Sensing)2016-2021
Participation in an HFSP Program Grant (Grant number RGP0035/2016)2012-2013
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (Grant number 273192)2011
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship (Grant number 1099-2010)2008-2009
ILL Postdoctoral Fellowship2004-2007
Graduate Research Fellowship from the French Ministry of Education
Grenoble INP Graduate Lecturer Fellowship2003-2004
Joseph Fourier University Masters Scholarship2024
Chan Zuckerberg initiative - Cryo-CLEM labels grant
