Marion Jasnin

Principal Investigator Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

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Research 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

2022-present

Principal Investigator – Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz Munich

2017-2022

Project Group Leader – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

2010-2016

Postdoc (Wolfgang Baumeister) – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

2008-2009

Postdoc (Giuseppe Zaccai) – Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)

2004-2007

Graduate Student (Giuseppe Zaccai and Moevea Tehei) – Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS)

2004

Master Student (Daniel Riveline) – Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LIPhy)

2003

Student Intern (Nils O. Petersen) – Western University, Department of Chemistry

Honors and Awards

2024-2028
ANR-DFG NLE 2024 - Individual Research Grant (ACTIS)
2024-2025
Chan Zuckerberg initiative - Cryo-CLEM labels grant
2020-2024
ANR-DFG NLE 2020 – Individual Research Grant (CryoAdhesome)
2016-2021
Participation in an HFSP Program Grant
2012-2013
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship
2011
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship
2008-2009
ILL Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004-2007
Graduate Research Fellowship from the French Ministry of Education
Grenoble INP Graduate Lecturer Fellowship
2003-2004
Joseph Fourier University Masters Scholarship

Dr. Marion Jasnin