It is with a deep sadness that we learned the passing away of our dear
colleague and friend, Dr Jean-Luc Ferrer, on April 21st in Grenoble,
after a long struggle against his disease.
Jean-Luc was an internationally known and highly respected scientist in
protein crystallography.Jean-Luc had led the Synchrotron Group (GSY) at
the IBS, a research group bridging instrumental and methodological
development in large research infrastructures and structural biology
projects. He was in charge of the French national (CRG) beamline
FIP-BM30A at the ESRFsince 2001. He has always been inventive, dynamic
and determined to highlight the advantages of synchrotron radiation for
protein crystallography. Pioneer in the automation of crystallography
beamlines, he has been the driving force to develop the first sample
loader based on a robotic arm with the idea of using it directly as a
goniometer. This paved the way to “in plate” diffraction experiments and
its use for intensive ligand screening. He was also a co-funder of the
NatX-ray company in Grenoble and San Diego and was strongly involved in
several teaching programs and international workshops.
Since the shutdown of the ESRF to complete its latest upgrade program,
Jean-Luc had been in charge to rebuild the FIP beamline in order to
provide the best service to the community, which will become BM07-FIP2.
Jean-Luc will be forever missed and remembered.
David Cobessi, on the behalf of the whole IBS staff and the RéNaFoBiS
network members
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