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The Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences (LOB), founded in 2001 under the leadership of Jean-Louis Martin, celebrated its 25 th anniversary on June 18 at École Polytechnique. To mark the occasion, dozens of former doctoral and postdoctoral students from the lab gathered for a lab tour and an afternoon of speeches, presentations, and surprise videos, followed by a pleasant evening by the lake. A big thank you to all our board members for attending...

An Inserm CHAIR (tenure track position) has just been opened in the Laboratoire d'Optique et Biosciences ( Inserm U1182) in École Polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris on “Development of nano-imaging methods for complex patho-physiological processes monitoring” Deadline to apply : September 2. How to apply: https://pro.inserm.fr The Inserm chair recruitments are Tenure Tracks intended for researchers with strong potential to manage and lead...

A study conducted by teams from LOB, BIAM Cadarache and I2BC, combining multiple techniques including ADASOPS multi-scale transient infrared absorption spectroscopy, shows that, contrary to previous assumptions, at physiological temperature CO₂ is converted into an intermediate other than bicarbonate in the catalytic mechanism of FAP, a natural photoenzyme showing great promise for applications in green chemistry. This work was published in ACS...