Affiliation: King’s College-London, Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics

Julien Bergeron is a Senior Lecturer in Electron Microscopy, in the Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London. His research research program focuses on using cryo-EM, combined with other structural and biophysical methods (X-ray crystallography, NMR, molecular modelling, ITC etc…), to decipher the structure of macromolecular nano-machines, focusing mainly on four themes: bacterial motility and adherence; macromolecular transport across the bacterial membranes; the bacterial cytoskeleton and microcompartments; and host-viral interactions.

Julien received his PhD from KCL in 2010, where his research aimed at using NMR to study the recruitment of a ubiquitin ligase complex by the HIV protein Vif. Subsequently, he took post-doctoral fellow positions at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) and the University of Washington (Seattle), where he studied large bacterial complexes such as the type III secretion system and the bacterial cytoskeleton, by X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM. He established his group at the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2017, and returned to KCL two years later.