May C. MORRIS
Institut des Biomolecules Max Mousseron, France
Biography
M.C.Morris obtained her PhD in Biology and Health Sciences at the University of Montpellier, France in 1997 and completed her postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA. In 2000, she was hired by the CNRS and returned to the Centre of Research on Macromolecular Biochemistry in Montpellier, France. In 2005, she established her own research group and in 2010, she was promoted CNRS Research Director. In 2014 she moved to the Institute of Biomolecules Max Mousseron, where she is currently in charge of the “Biosensors and Inhibitors” group within the Department of Amino Acids, Heterocycles, Peptides and Proteins for Health.
She was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2006 and the “Scientist of the Future” award from Languedoc-Roussillon Region in 2009. She has published over 65 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 18 chapters in books and 8 patents, edited a volume on Fluorescent Biosensors (Elsevier Press) in 2013 and a special issue on Fluorescent Biosensors in Biotechnology Journal in 2014 (Total citations : 3874, h-factor: 27 (ISI Web of Science).She is currently an editorial board member of Chem BioChem and Frontiers in Chemistry