Selected publications, collaborations, team milestones and scientific events from the Cressiot nanopore research programme.
Recent publications, scientific presentations, outreach and collaborations.
Our team presented an interactive workshop and conceptual demonstration of nanopores and the electrical detection of biomolecules. Visitors explored how single molecules can be detected through changes in ionic current, with discussions about biomedical applications.
At the first CY Cergy Paris Université–Hôpital NOVO meeting, “Innovating Together for Health”, Benjamin Cressiot delivered a talk on the detection and identification of protein biomarkers by nanopores. The team also contributed five posters on peptide biomarkers, proline isomers, enantiomers and sensing in complex biofluids.
Y. Cai, Y. Liu, I. Khaled, B. Cressiot, L. Bacri and J. Pelta combine a solid-state nanopore platform with machine learning to identify and quantify peptide biomarkers in 20% human serum. DOI pending.
See publication record →
Y. Cai, Y. Liu, L. Bacri, B. Cressiot and J. Pelta review how nanopores probe conformational and phase transitions in nucleic acids, proteins and polymers at the single-molecule level. DOI to be added after publication.
See publication record →
Published in Small, this study demonstrates discrimination of sulfated and unsulfated CCK-8 biomarkers in 20% human serum.
View publication
Benjamin Cressiot and Pierre Defrenaix (Excilone) met at the Palais de l’Élysée to discuss the future of DreamPore, a startup hosted at CY Cergy Paris Université, and the development of nanopore-based molecular diagnostics.
Funding & innovation
A study of scaling laws for polymer transport in confined media, with implications for nanopore-based biomarker detection.
Explore the publication record
Ongoing participation in PEPR MolecularXiv, PEPR SENSIGA and the PROMETHEUS ecosystem broadens the reach of nanopore science.
Explore programmes
Postdoctoral researcher Soching LUIKHAM, recruited in October 2025 to work on synthetic-polymer detection and molecular information reading, joins doctoral researchers Laura Ratinho and Luca Iesu; the team also welcomes Mélanie De Magalhaes, Kalifa Sidibé and Ilies Hakimi in 2026.
Meet the team
New results strengthen the programme on molecular discrimination, peptide structure and nanopore transport.
See publications
The work expands the ability of nanopores to distinguish closely related peptide structures and biologically relevant variants.
Read the research highlightsBringing single-molecule science and biomedical research to a wider audience.
In this public lecture at CY Cergy Paris Université, Benjamin Cressiot explains how nanopores detect biomolecules one at a time and how this technology could contribute to earlier disease diagnosis. The talk introduces electrical nanopore sensing, biomarker detection in biological samples, and potential applications in healthcare, environmental monitoring and energy research.
Original French title: Les nanopores : des outils d’analyse pour le diagnostic précoce de maladies.
Official Université Ouverte lecture page ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
Institutional news and research coverage exclusively about publications I coauthored. Each title links to its original source. The major 2026 milestones remain featured above.
