Julie Karpenko

Dr Julie Karpenko obtained a PhD in Biological and Therapeutic Chemistry in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Marcel Hibert in Strasbourg for her work on the development of fluorescent and PET probes for the oxytocin receptor. She then joined the team of Prof. Kai Johnsson at EPFL as an EMBO fellow, where she worked on fluorescent semi-synthetic protein sensors for in vivo calcium imaging. In 2016, she was appointed Associate Professor in Pharmacochemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Strasbourg. Her research, conducted within the Laboratory for Therapeutic Innovation, focuses on the development of fluorescent probes for biological applications, with a particular interest in studying antimicrobial resistance and diagnosing bacterial infections.