Karen Perronet

CNRS researcher at Light Matter and Interfaces (LuMIn) Lab

PhD title: “From a single subunit to a single capsid: encapsulation in a cellular environment studied by single-molecule optical techniques”.

Karen Perronet is a specialist in advanced microscopy techniques for studying biological systems in real time at the single-molecule scale. She will supervise the future PhD and oversee the two years of the thesis conducted in France. In collaboration with Guillaume Tresset, she has pioneered a fluorescence microscopy method to investigate equilibrium dynamics of viral capsids. Her research interests include biophotonics, with a focus on fluorescence microscopy, nanoparticle tracking, magnetic tweezers and iSCAT microscopy, applied to biological questions such as viral capsid assembly and protein synthesis.