Jeanne Chauvat, finalist in the “Ma thèse en 180 secondes” competition
“Ma thèse en 180 secondes” enables doctoral students to present their research topic, in French and in simple terms, to a lay and diverse audience. In three minutes, each student must give a clear, concise yet convincing presentation of his or her research project. All with the help of a single slide!
The competition is inspired by Three minute thesis (3MT®), developed at the University of Queensland in Australia.
The concept was taken up in Quebec in 2012 by the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas), which wanted to extend the project to all French-speaking countries.
For the 10th edition of the competition, the IPBS counted, for its first participation, 4 candidates of which three reached the regional final (Léa Fromont, Marine Hernandez and Madeleine Bossaert) and one (Jeanne Chauvat) reached the national final. Jeanne had already won the Public Prize and the High School Prize at the regional final in Toulouse. The national final was held at the Opéra de Rennes on June 8.
As a member of the “Deciphering and Drugging DNA Repair” team headed by Sébastien Britton, Jeanne works on the molecular interactions between two proteins, Ku and WRN, involved in DNA repair, the understanding of which could lead to the development of new cancer therapies.