🧪 CNRS Researcher at IBMM, Montpellier 🇨🇵 Medicinal chemistry and chemical biology 🧫 Epigenetics 🧬 Redox biology ⚗️ P2X7 receptor 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇨🇮
Montpellier, France
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A new tool for epigenetic reprogramming? 😎
We have finally found out how to increase our flavanones stability and obtain DNA methyltransferase inhibitors with nanomolar activity 🥳
Read about it on the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…
Congratulations @HughMohan3 ! 🎉
Huge congratulations to @HughMohan3 on successfully defending his PhD thesis today. A very special day for the group and a very proud supervisor. Many thanks to the examination team and special thanks to @Researchirel for funding.
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Beyond the science, #Carbon2025 was a great chance to connect, recharge, and strengthen bonds—with our team and collaborators from around the world. 🌍🤝
These moments make all the difference. @HughMohan3
#GiordaniGroup #ScienceCollaboration #CarbonResearch #PhDLife
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Had a fantastic week at #Carbon2025 in Saint-Malo 🇫🇷! I had the honour of opening Topic 1 with a keynote on carbon nano-onions for drug delivery
🏆 @HughMohan won Best PhD Oral Presentation
🧪 Aravind presented a great poster on CNO dispersibility
Proud of them! 💪
Great work about P2X7 role in traumatic brain injury from a wonderful team I could collaborate with! 🎉 Many congrats!! 🤗
🧠 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!
Traumatic brain injury doesn’t end with the impact, the real threat is the #neuroinflammation that follows.
In our latest paper published in @BrJPharmacol, we explore a novel therapeutic angle: targeting #P2X7 receptor
➡️ bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
The Young Investigator Award I received last week in Galway by the Society for Free Radical Research - Europe (@SFRR_Europe) and @ElsevierConnect . It was such a surprise! Thanks a lot! ✨
Very happy to represent our Carbon dots also at the 22nd SFRR-I Biennial Meeting in Galway! ✨
@SFRR_Europe @Researchirel @DCU
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Delighted to be the recipient of a Research Alliance Award, which will allow us to investigate the feasibility of using our Carbon Nano-onions in laser assisted cancer therapy, in collaboration with Prof Zengbo Wang at Bangor University in Wales.
€584,378 has been awarded to eight projects through the Research Alliance Award, a programme established by @WIN_Cymru and Research Ireland to strengthen Ireland-Wales research ties and support Horizon Europe grant development. Read here: researchireland.ie/news/rese…
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This work represents an extensive research my collaborators and I have carried out in the last years.
Thanks to all of them, especially Marie Lopez and Eric Julien for their massive support!
Thanks also to the IBMM @CNRS for hosting me during these years and to the @FondationARC for funding my postdoctoral research!
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Three new papers in Science report that astrocytes are indispensable for neuromodulatory signaling across diverse neural circuits, behavioral contexts, and species.
Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/3F4XJRP
Finally a professional picture! Ahahah 🤣 Thank you @MichalBartkow!
#NewProfilePic
Our carbon dots are shining! 😎✨
Carbon dots made from spent coffee grounds glow green in breast cancer cells, as investigated in Nanoscale's inside back cover article ☕
@giordanisilvia @Yingru_Zhou @MichalBartkow @SofiaDo93405718
Read more about the work here 👇:
doi.org/10.1039/D4NR05186F
ALT Image shows whole coffee beans being converted into grounds then into green fluorescent carbon dots, with a green spiral showing the dots attacking a number of dark red cancerous cells. Woodland-style background emphasises the green nature of the synthesis.
What do we do in our research group? ⚗️🧪🧬
Our group leader Prof Silvia Giordani tells you about it in this video! 👇🏻
As a member of her team, I enjoyed so much this filming session 🤣 and the result is amazing!
Massive thanks to Daire Hall for the great video highlighting our research (and my wonderful team) at @DCU #WeAreDCU
youtu.be/sAAvrxyg-BI?si=91is… via @YouTube
Congrats to the Giordani group for this new publication !! 🎉 @giordanisilvia @HughMohan3 @MichalBartkow
Delighted with our latest paper on B/N-CNOs for targeted breast cancer therapy published open access in Nanoscale. Congratulations @HughMohan3 and @MichalBartkow. I am very grateful to @Researchirel for funding and to my collaborators @unito and @unizar
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Lots of activity on campus today for @DCU Spring Open Day, staff and students from @DcuBiotech @DCUChemistry @DCUPsychology @DCUSNPCH @DCUMaths @DCUPhysics & @dcu_shhp are all busy providing tours and demonstrations and answering questions.
dcu.ie/spring-open-day
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I enjoyed our @DCU Spring Open Day, giving taste lectures about what our School have to offer, providing laboratory tours and answering questions from interested high school students and parents at the stand together with my colleagues and postgraduate students.
Thank you @giordanisilvia ! I received an incredible welcome from you and all the people working at @DCU_LSI . Really appreciated that! 🤗✨
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Things are moving quickly for gene-editing therapies.
"A fresh wave of gene-editing therapies is surging to the fore — even as the field wrestles with the challenge of getting the first generation of expensive and complex #CRISPR treatments to the people who need them."
#Science #Genetics #Biology
⏯️CRISPR genome-editing grows up: advanced therapies head for the clinic
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
ALT Image Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04102-w The CRISPR gene-editing system makes a change to a DNA sequence (middle; artist’s illustration). Credit: Vivid Biology/Science Photo Library