Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki
Director
CNRS Research
France
Biography
After a Doctorate in Pharmacy at the University of Lille, Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki has completed her PhD degree in chemistry of marine natural products from the University of Paris XI-Orsay. She is currently Director of Research CNRS at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where she spent most of her career, focusing her research activity on the isolation, structure elucidation and structure-activity relationships of bioactive natural products from marine sponges.
Research Interest
She now leads a research team « Molecules of defense and communication within the microbial ecosystems » involved in multidisciplinary studies combining microscopic, cultural, molecular biology and chemical approaches in order to understand the role of the associated bacteria within these complex marine holobionts.