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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We saw beautiful presentations and had wonderful discussions on dynamics, structure, disorder and LLPS in DNA repair with, in addition to Mauro, @felixrico.bsky.social, Sophie Brasselet, and Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier. Reem and I came back with many ideas.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This week, we had a wonderful consortium meeting of the XXL project @agencerecherche.bsky.social in the iconic Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier in Marseille, thanks to our awesome coordinator Mauro Modesti.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Théodore Bellon! A brilliant defense today after very rich three years with @gbouvignies.bsky.social and I. Thank you to the members of the committee, @rpierattelli.bsky.social, Sophie Zinn-Justin, @christineschmidt.bsky.social, François-Xavier Theillet and Mauro Modesti.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

To accommodate family logistics, I had my 7 year old daughter attend one of my Master 2 classes on experimental methods to investigate protein dynamics. This is her interpretation of what was going on. I find it pretty cute but I’m biased.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Cold room deep clean up, in style! Team awesome.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Kirill started his defense by a tribute to Jean-Nicolas Dumez who had accepted to be one of the reviewers of his HDR manuscript. A moving start.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My colleague Kirill Sheberstov defended his habilitation (HDR) yesterday. Both the presentation and manuscript were brilliant. Congratulations to Kirill! A big thank you to all the members of the broad and prestigious committee.

Kirill Sheberstov with his HDR committee, from left to right: Nicolas Giraud, Sami Jannin, Fabien Ferrage, Kirill, Christina Thiele, Patrick Giraudeau, Anne Lesage, Malcolm Levitt, Daniel Abergel, and, on the screen, Kerstin Münnemann.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Always a pleasure to visit friends at IBS in Grenoble! Hopefully my trip back will be more straightforward.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Bye bye Italy! That break was most welcome. I’m excited to be back in the lab tomorrow.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Jean-Nicolas Dumez was an exceptional human being, someone whose intelligence and rigor I truly admired, committed to making the world a better place. I enjoyed every occasion to share his friendly company and witty conversation. What a terrible loss. 💔

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

On my way back to Paris after a wonderful two weeks of conferences in the mountains. First the Alps, with the amazingly stimulating GRC on computational aspects of biomolecular NMR followed by the Tatra mountains for the always excellent Ampere school in Zakopane.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A favorite at the awesome Pasteur conference “NMR a tool for biology” is the reunion of current and past group members. With @gbouvignies.bsky.social @duyvd.bsky.social @lucassiemons.bsky.social @glicciardi.bsky.social @cyrcharlier.bsky.social and more!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Yesterday, I made a typo on a slide… 🫣 this one may stay. NMR world, welcome the amazing, the one and only…

Haribabu Arthanari presenting a slide with his name appearing as Haribaby

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Do you prefer your strawberry shortcakes with or without the top?

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Easter lunch: braised shoulder of lamb from the next valley with “Tarbais” beans from my Dad’s garden, served with an intense reduced jus.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Unleashing my Ansel Adams mode while enjoying the last bit of snow in the lower Pyrenees.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Taking a little break from it all under a bright blue morning sky.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

With DEERs, to celebrate the exceptional presence in Asilomar of the EPR community.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Trying to forget 10 minutes about the news, and enjoying my way to work before another important day. @gbouvignies.bsky.social is defending his habilitation today. I am very much looking forward to this!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Last but not least, we concluded with an insightful discussion on scientific integrity and the fabrication of ignorance by @mathiasg.bsky.social from the department of philosophie at @normalesup.bsky.social. What an amazing opportunity for FC-RELAX doctoral candidates!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

On the third and last day of the school on high-resolution relaxometry, we’re having two excellent classes. First on relaxation in paramagnetic systems by Claudio Luchinat and Giacomo Parigi followed by @lucassiemons.bsky.social on merging MD simulations and relaxation.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This morning, we continued with spectacular courses by Art Palmer on dynamics from NMR relaxation, and @gbouvignies.bsky.social and Nicolas Bolik-Coulon (live from Toronto) on how to integrate the Master equation.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

After the workshop last week, the joint FC-RELAX/HIRES-MULTIDYN/IMF-NMR activities continue with a training school on high-resolution relaxometry. We had talks by Philippe Pelupessy (on cross relaxation) and myself (on sample shuttling) in the morning and now advanced practicals in the afternoon.

Giulia Licciardi demonstrates how to prepare a sample container for high-resolution relaxometry

Ana Paula Aguila Alva and Alessandro Ruda present how to analyze high-resolution relaxometry datasets

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We had a wonderful workshop on relaxometry last week, with over 50 participants at @chimieens.bsky.social. A great group, stimulating discussions and good food.

Guillaume Bouvignies and Giacomo Parigi discussing dynamics in oil

Danuta Kruk and Pedro Sebastiao discussing on the original of relaxation in ionic liquids

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We had a lovely group lunch today! We said goodbye to Alice Laníková who is going back to Masaryk University until late summer and welcomed Giulia Licciardi who joined us from @cerm-cirmmp.bsky.social earlier this month.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We had a great visit of @paulrobustelli.bsky.social today at @chimieens.bsky.social. Inspiring new ideas in a beautiful seminar and lively discussions. The whole day went by too fast!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

At the COST ML4NGP training school today, we had a fantastic class this morning by Frans Mulder. This afternoon, after an intense class on relaxation in disordered proteins, it is time for Alice Lanikova to lead a practical on relaxation analysis. Way to go Alice!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Pavel Kadeřávek opens the ML4NGP training school on NMR for intrinsically disordered proteins. My first trip to Brno was over a decade ago, to participate in the PhD defense of Pavel. Time flies!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A couple of hours in Vienna on my way to Brno for the COST ML4NGP training school. I visited the Kunsthistorisches Museum for the first time. My head is still spinning from watching so many masterpieces.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Enjoying sunrise at work on a vacation day… (Thanks to the dysfunctional O2 detection cell in the NMR lab for this opportunity)

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Duy decorated our coffee corner with a wall of pictures from the past five years. So many good memories!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

After a little more than five years working together, today is the last day with Duy in the lab. 🥲 We both learned so much! I wish him all the best in his next adventure with @bonomimax.bsky.social!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

When your lab is in Paris, it’s Holiday party with a view!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

We had a good day of fun activities to celebrate the end of the year altogether. Lots of good laughs but it was hard not to be emotional wishing farewell to Duy and Ulric.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Looks like a bunch of NMR spectroscopists looking at a single peak. But what a peak!!! Today was a very good day, with @lucassiemons.bsky.social, @gbouvignies.bsky.social and Philippe Pelupessy. #NMRChat

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Another fascinating talk by Malcolm Levitt today at @chimieens.bsky.social. Thank you for stopping by in between two trains. With some great work by @sabba.bsky.social inside!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A bittersweet moment today for the last group seminar by Duc-Duy Vu, who will leave the lab at the end of the year to join Max Bonomi at @institutpasteur.bsky.social. Exciting work on an ANR project with @brukercorporation.bsky.social.

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Dinner tonight: rascasse façon bouillabaisse. Not quite what I had in mind when I started but pretty good! #ChemistsWhoCook

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We had a great time with the short visit of Rams Ramamoorrthy from @nationalmaglab.bsky.social as an ambassador from @cnrs.bsky.social Chemistry. Lots of NMR, membranes, protein in all flavors, and excellent food of course!

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A short tour of the Louvre with the kids this afternoon. The view from the window can also be a masterpiece!

View of the Louvre courtyard with the pyramid, the arc de triomphe du Carrousel and the Eiffel Tower in the background

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Fabien Ferrage @fabferrage.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

So many emotions today during the last meeting of the year of the HIRES-MULTIDYN project. Everyone was very excited by a major instrumentation breakthrough. Difficult not to be sad when we said goodbye though as this was my last professional meeting with Jean-Max Tyburn from Bruker.

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