Consolidator Grants 2024: Cornelia Meinert and Bruno Hudry are the winners

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Published on December 11, 2024 – Updated on December 11, 2024
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on the December 4, 2024

ERC Consolidator grant
ERC Consolidator grant

The two researchers are among the 38 French winners of the European Research Council's (ERC) Consolidator 2024 call (328 winners in total). These grants, worth €2 million over five years, support researchers who obtained their doctorate 7 to 12 years ago.

Cornelia Meinert - CNRS Research Director - Institut de Chimie de Nice

For her project ICE-EEVOLVE Interstellar Chiral Evolution- Exploring Enantiomeric Excesses in Evolving Environments

The ICE-EEVOLVE project aims to explore how the chemical asymmetry of amorphous water-rich ices and chiral organic molecules evolves, from molecular clouds to the formation of planetary systems. By combining innovative experiments on interstellar ice analogues and the analysis of extraterrestrial samples, this project seeks to unravel the mystery of the origins of chirality, an essential property of the molecules at the basis of life.



Bruno Hudry, CNRS Research Fellow - Institut de Biologie Valrose

For his project XDose - Discover the physiological and developmental functions of X chromosome dosage using new genetic and system models
Bruno Hudry is using genomic and genetic approaches in Drosophila to study the impact of sex chromosomes on development. Males, with a single copy of the X chromosome compared to two in females, rely on dosage compensation to balance X gene expression. Failure of this process often results in severe disorders and lethality. The "XDose" ERC project aims to understand why this absence is lethal, and to identify X chromosome dose-sensitive genes and processes.