{"id":4244,"date":"2023-01-10T18:07:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T17:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sfbmec.fr\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2023-01-19T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:02:56","slug":"hommage-a-konrad-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sfbmec.fr\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"Hommage \u00e0 Konrad Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>C\u2019est avec une grande tri<\/span>s<\/span>tesse que nous avons appris<\/span> le <\/span>d\u00e9c\u00e8s pr\u00e9matur\u00e9<\/span> de<\/span> Konrad Beck<\/span> en Novembre 2022. <\/span>Apr\u00e8s avoir obtenu son<\/span> Ph.D en Biophysique<\/span> au<\/span> Max Planck <\/span>Institute of Biophysics<\/span> en 1984, il<\/span> a<\/span> parcouru le monde <\/span>apportant des<\/span> contributions majeur<\/span>e<\/span>s dans le domaine de <\/span>la matrice extracellulaire, notamment en \u00e9lucidant la <\/span>structure<\/span> de<\/span> divers<\/span> motifs<\/span> conserv\u00e9s<\/span> des<\/span> prot\u00e9ines <\/span>matricielles<\/span> et r\u00e9v\u00e9lant<\/span> la<\/span> relation<\/span> avec leur<\/span> fonction.<\/span> Il<\/span> s\u2019e<\/span>st <\/span>ensuite<\/span> install\u00e9<\/span> \u00e0<\/span> Cardiff<\/span> (UK)<\/span> comme<\/span> Profes<\/span>seur<\/span> en <\/span>biophysique des prot\u00e9ines, Universit\u00e9 de Cardiff, Coll\u00e8ge <\/span>des sciences biom\u00e9dicales et de la vie<\/span>.<\/span> A une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 les <\/span>travaux<\/span> sur<\/span> les<\/span> lames<\/span> basales<\/span> n\u2019en<\/span> \u00e9taient<\/span> qu\u2019\u00e0<\/span> leur <\/span>balbutiements, il a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9<\/span> et caract\u00e9ris\u00e9<\/span> l\u2019organisation en <\/span>h\u00e9lice alpha supe<\/span>r enroul\u00e9e des laminines, apportant une <\/span>brique fondamentale \u00e0 la compr\u00e9hension des assemblages supramol\u00e9culaire de ces <\/span>mol\u00e9cules.<\/span> Ses travaux restent des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences importantes \u00e0 ce jour. J\u2019ai eu le privil\u00e8ge <\/span>d\u2019accueillir Konrad dans mon laboratoire \u00e0 Lyon<\/span>, comme chercheur invit\u00e9 (2002<\/span>–<\/span>2004), <\/span>p\u00e9riode durant laquelle il a fortement interagit avec<\/span> tous les membres<\/span> de notre <\/span>d\u00e9partement Matrice Extracellulaire<\/span> \u00e0 l\u2019Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Prot\u00e9ines<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patricia Rousselle<\/em><\/p>\n

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