Pierre Neveu


Education:
2002 B.Sc. in pure mathematics, Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France.
2002 B.Sc. in fundamental physics, Orsay University, France.
2003 M.Sc. in fundamental physics, Orsay University, France.
2007 PhD in biophysics, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris and Orsay University, France.
2007- Postdoctoral fellow in Kosik lab and at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics with Boris Shraiman, University of California Santa Barbara, USA.

Research interests:
tau degradation, synthetic biology, evolution of sex, caged compounds.

Publications:
Aujard I, Benbrahim C, Gouget M, Ruel O, Baudin JB, Neveu P, Jullien L. o-Nitrobenzyl photolabile protecting groups with red-shifted absorption: syntheses and uncaging cross-sections for one- and two-photon excitation. Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 6865�6879.
Gagey N, Neveu P, Jullien L. Reporting two-photon uncaging with the efficient 3,5-dibromo-2,4-dihydroxycinnamic caging group. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2007, 46, 2467�2469.
> Gagey N, Neveu P, Benbrahim C, Goetz B, Aujard I, Baudin JB, Jullien L. Two-Photon Uncaging with fluorescence Reporting: Evaluation of the ortho-Hydroxy Cinnamic Platform. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 9986�9998.
Neveu P, Vriz S, Aujard I, Benbrahim C, Le Saux T, Allemand JF, Bensimon D, Jullien L. Probing the cellular response to a pulse of retinoic acid using two-photon uncaging in a zebrafish embryo. to appear.

Carrettiero DC, Hernandez I, Neveu P, Papagiannakopoulos T, Kosik KS. The cochaperone BAG2 sweeps paired helical filament- insoluble tau from the microtubule. J Neurosci. 2009 Feb 18;29(7):2151-61


E-mail: neveu at kitp.ucsb.edu