Minh-Ha Nguyen is a research engineer at the NMR and HDX-MS platform of the Institut Pasteur. She earned her PhD in Biochemistry in 2019, specializing in protein solution NMR, at the lab of Olivier Walker in Lyon. Following her PhD, she completed postdoctoral work in the solid-state NMR team of Anja Böckmann, where she studied a SARS-CoV-2 accessory protein involved in virus virulence. She later pursued a second post-doc at the BiophysiCyA team at the Institut Pasteur, focusing on enhancing the translocation capacity of CyaA, a major virulence factor of Bordetella pertussis, for potential therapeutic use before joining the NMR and HDX-MS platform.
Her research integrates NMR with biophysical techniques to study protein structure, dynamics, and interactions with other biomolecules, including proteins and nucleic acids. She is currently involved in projects targeting the MBD domain of epigenetic readers and characterizing synthetic cyclic peptides with antibacterial and drug-like properties.
Outside of her research, she enjoys creative activities, which have also contributed to her scientific career, including designing a cover for a paper published in Cell Methods Report (November 2023, Volume 3, Issue 11).
