Biography

Professor Chipot received his PhD in Theoretical Chemistry in 1994 from the Henri Poincaré University, in France, conducting research on intermolecular potentials with a fellowship from the Roussel Uclaf Institute. Following a post-doctorate in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the University of California in San Francisco, he became a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center. He joined the CNRS in 1996 at the University of Lorraine, and received his habilitation in 2000. He was promoted research director in 2006, and since 2012, he has been directing an Associate International Laboratory established between the CNRS and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also an adjunct faculty at the department of physics of the University of Illinois and at the department of biochemistry and molecular biology of the University of Chicago.

Selected Articles in Journals

1. Fu, H.; Chen, H.; Blazhynska, M.; Goulard Coderc De Lacam, E.; Szczepaniak, F.; Shao, X.; Gumbart, J. C.; Dehez, F.; Roux, B.; Cai, W.; Chipot, C. Accurate determination of protein:ligand standard binding free energies from molecular dynamics simulations. Nature Protocols 2022, 17, 1114-1141.
2. Sanganna Gari, R. R.; Montalvo-Acosta, J. J.; Heath, G. R.; Jiang, Y.; Gao, X.; Nimigean, C. M.; Chipot, C.; Scheuring, S. Correlation of membrane protein conformational and functional dynamics. Nature Comm. 2021, 12, 4363.
3. Phillips, J. C.; Hardy, D. J.; Maia, J.D. C.; Stone, J. E.; Ribeiro, J. V.; Bernardi, R. C.; Buch, R.; Fiorin, G.; Hénin, J.; Jiang,W.; McGreevy, R.; Melo, M. C. R.; Radak, B. K.; Skeel, R. D.; Singharoy, A.; Wang, Y.; Roux, B.; Aksimentiev, A.; Luthey-Schulten, Z.; Kalé, L. V.; Schulten, K.; Chipot, C.; Tajkhorshid, E. Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD. J. Chem. Phys. 2020, 153, 044130.
4. Fu, H.; Shao, X.; Cai,W.; Chipot, C. Taming rugged free-energy landscapes using an average force. Acc. Chem. Res. 2019, 52, 3254-3264.
5. Chipot, C.; Dehez, F.; Schnell, J. R.; Zitzmann, N.; Pebay-Peyroula, E.; Catoire, L. J.; Miroux, B.; Kunji, E. R. S.; Veglia, G.; Cross, T. A.; Schanda, P. Perturbations of native membrane protein structure in alkyl phosphocholine detergents: A critical assessment of NMR and biophysical studies. Chem. Rev. 2018, 118, 3559-3607.