Dominique Bourgeois
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Biologie Structurale
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About
Dominique Bourgeois is a leading figure in structural biology, with a career defined by advancing the tools and techniques of macromolecular crystallography. His research focuses on developing innovative X-ray and laser-based methods to visualize protein structures with unprecedented clarity and efficiency. A major contribution is his pioneering work on UV laser-excited fluorescence for protein crystal visualization, a technique that dramatically improved the success rate of automated structure determination at synchrotron beamlines. This work, detailed in his highly cited 2006 paper (41 citations), helped overcome a critical bottleneck in structural proteomics. Bourgeois was also instrumental in the design and commissioning of the ID14 "Quadriga" beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), a dedicated high-brilliance undulator beamline for monochromatic macromolecular crystallography. This achievement, documented in a seminal 1998 paper (28 citations), provided the community with a powerful new resource for high-throughput structure determination. Through these contributions, Bourgeois has significantly enhanced the speed and reliability of protein crystallography, enabling deeper insights into the molecular machinery of life.
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- 2ID14 `Quadriga', a Beamline for Protein Crystallography at the ESRF28 citations · 1998