Suga Lab. / Member / Christopher J. Hipolito

Postdoctoral Fellow

City/country of origin: Saint Etienne/France
Hobbies: Practicing sports including Judo and Rock climbing/Bouldering and Canyoning. Drawing art. Learning more about Japanese language, culture and cooking.
Places You Like: Mountain, canyons, and wild forest. Game centers.
Where for a big vacation: In France of course!
What are your strong points?: Organization, solving others problems, repairing stuff
Music: what is some intense music for intense lab work?: “Number One” – Shirō Sagisu (Bleach OST)
What are people in the lab doing?: Challenging the understanding
What was surprising about the suga lab: There is a mecha in the lab!
Original motivation towards science?: I am just trying to understand how everything works
A few words for future lab mates: “Plus on est de fous, plus on rit”
Science is…….: in each of us

2009-2012: Claude Fauriel Prep School, Math, Physics, Chemistry and Engineer Sciences (France)
2012-2015: Master's program in Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for industrial application, Sigma Clermont Engineering School (France)
2015: Master's program in Organic synthesis and Biocatalysis, Blaise Pascal University (France)
2017-2023: Ph. D. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida Atlantic University (Prof. Stéphane Roche)
2023-2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Tokyo (Prof. Hiroaki Suga)

"Passive Membrane Permeability of Sizable Acyclic β-Hairpin Peptides.": J. Moxam; S. Naylon; A.D. Richaud; G. Zhao; A. Padilla; S.P. Roche; ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 14, 278-284 (2023)
"Structure–Property Relationship Study of N-(Hydroxy)Peptides for the Design of Self-Assembled Parallel β-Sheets.": A.D. Richaud; S.P. Roche; The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 85, 12329-12342 (2020)
"Exploiting the Innate Plasticity of the Programmed Cell Death-1 (PD1) Receptor to Design Pembrolizumab H3 Loop Mimics**.": A.D. Richaud; M. Zaghouani; G. Zhao; M. Wangpaichitr; N. Savaraj; S.P. Roche; ChemBioChem, 23, e202200449 (2022)
"Folding in Place: Design of β-Strap Motifs to Stabilize the Folding of Hairpins with Long Loops.": A.D. Richaud; G. Zhao; S. Hobloss; S.P. Roche; The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86, 13535-13547 (2021)
"Intercepted-Knoevenagel condensation for the synthesis of unsymmetrical fused-tricyclic 4H-pyrans.": C. Shearer; O. Desaunay; S. Zorc; A.D. Richaud; S.S. Samanta; N. Jeedimalla; S.P. Roche; Tetrahedron, 75, 130606 (2019)