Affiliation: Laboratory for Therapeutic Innovations, University of Strasbourg

Dr. Julie Karpenko studied at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine) and the Université Côte d’Azur (France). She earned her PhD in biological chemistry from the University of Strasbourg (France). She subsequently joined the group of Prof. Kai Johnsson at EPFL (Switzerland) as a postdoctoral fellow, where she worked on fluorescent semi-synthetic protein sensors for in vivo calcium imaging. In 2016, she was appointed associate professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Strasbourg (France). Her current research focuses on the development of fluorescent probes for biological applications, with a particular emphasis on bacterial physiology and the diagnosis of bacterial infections.