Lab Members
Chloé Martens, PhD
Principal Investigator
Chloé Martens is an FRS-FNRS Research Associate and group leader at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Her group studies how dynamics shape the function of membrane transporters, using structural mass spectrometry, in particular hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. After training in chemistry, structural biology and mass spectrometry at ULB, Vanderbilt University and King’s College London, she established her independent group at ULB in 2021.
Her work has been supported by national and international funding, including an ERC Starting Grant, and recognized by the Solvay Prize and Hector Lepouse Prize.
Inès Benhammouche, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher
nès Benhammouche holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Aarhus University, where she studied the structural and functional mechanisms of plant hormone transporters using cryo-EM and biophysical approaches. Her current research focuses on understanding and manipulating the conformational dynamics of bacterial and human drug transporters.
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George Chiduza, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher
George Chiduza holds a PhD from the University of Liverpool in the UK and is a Francis Crick Institute alumnus. He is interested in the dynamics and protein-lipid interactions of heteromeric amino acid transporters in the context of autism spectrum disorder.
Assia Khalild
PhD student
Assia Khalild holds a Master degree in Biochemistry (structural and functional biology) from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. She is part of the newly established Pant-PATH consortium to study hormonal transport in plants.
Hasan Maklad, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher
Johannes Busch
PhD student
Johannes Busch graduated from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen with a Master degree in Nanoscience. He is part of the newly established Pant-PATH consortium to study hormonal transport in plants.
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Alejandra Arango
PhD student
Alejandra Arango holds a Master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Delaware (USA). Her research project focuses on modulating drug transporter dynamics to improve therapeutic efficacy.
Maria Mamkaeva
Lab technician
Maria Mamkaeva holds a bachelor in Biology from the University of Saint-Petersburg. She supports the team efforts' in understanding multidrug efflux.