Quentin Vicens Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

InFocus Therapeutics is a drug discovery company that aims to target RNA directly with small molecules. We developing technologies that serve to improve the current state of the art for RNA-targeted drug discovery, to bring forward new RNA drugs to the clinic.

Houston, Texas, United States

Greater Denver Area

RNA structural and computational biology

Strasbourg Area, France

I joined the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire at the CNRS to study structure-function relationships in ribonucleic acids involved in translation initiation in mammals.

Strasbourg Area, France

I acted as an agent for Turning Technologies in order to promote smart use of technologies that improve teaching in higher education.The Turning Technologies Distinguished Educator Program was created with the intent to improve learning environments through establishing a community of outstanding users and innovative educators.

Strasbourg, France

I helped instructors in higher education to adopt research-based and student-centered teaching strategies such as peer instruction and the flipped classroom. I co-taught within professional development courses in Denmark and in France, both on-site and online.

Center For Science Education

Faculty Developer with Dr. Michael CaspersenFocus: Implementing effective and sustainable educational improvements at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics according to evidence-based science education research.Summary: I acted as a facilitator for course improvement through the introduction of clickers in lectures, and the organization of professional development workshops, courses and conferences for teaching staff (all academic levels from teaching assistant to full professor). I also organized online resources for students, PhD students and lecturers.

Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Robert BateyTopic: Biophysical analysis of ligand binding processes for bacterial ribonucleic acid (RNA) regulatorsMethods: Biochemistry, biophysics, chemical probing, molecular biology, X-ray crystallographySummary: Our studies helped uncover a mechanism for ligand binding to bacterial RNA regulators that has implications for the design of novel antibiotics. This work was supported by the company BioRelix.

Instructor for the course MCDB #1150 entitled Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology for the Baker Residential Academic Program (two semesters)Summary: I taught this course using innovative teaching practices supported by the Science Education Initiative which was founded by Prof. Carl Wieman (http://www.colorado.edu/sei/). I occupied this position in parallel of my post-doctoral position.

University Of Colorado At Boulder

Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Thomas CechTopic: Structural and functional analysis of natural group I ribozymesMethods: Biochemistry, biophysics, chemical probing, molecular Biology, X-ray crystallographySummary: Our work comprised several breakthroughs: 1. development of a technique to help with growing high quality ribonucleic acid (RNA) crystals; 2. identification of criteria by which RNA function can be inferred from sequence; 3. discovery of an RNA-catalyzed reaction that has implications in evolution and modern biology

Habilitation À Diriger Les Recherches (Scd), Post-Doctoral Degree

Topic: Integrative structural biology of RNAs that regulate translation initiation by interacting with the ribosome. (committee: R..

Phd, Life Sciences – Molecular Biology

Supervisor: Prof. Eric Westhof Topic: Crystallographic studies of aminoglycoside antibiotics in complex with the bacterial ribosomal.

D.E.A. (Msc), Biological Nmr And Crystallography

Research project: Crystallographic studies of small RNA motifs (Advisor: Prof. Eric Westhof) Maîtrise followed by D.E.A. are equivalent.

Magistère (Meng), Chemistry - Biology

Magistère is equivalent to a second MS

Maîtrise (Bsc), Biochemistry (Structural Biology)

Undergraduate research: - summer, 1996: Compilation of crystallization conditions of oligonucleotides and computer visualization of 3D.

Licence, Biochemistry

D.E.U.G. followed by Licence are equivalent to BS

D.E.U.G., Biology - Physics - Chemistry