Dr. Isabelle Mus-Veteau is a biochemist and biophysicist specialist in membrane protein characterization. She obtained her PhD in microbiology and cell biology at the University of Marseille in France. She has held a French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) tenure position at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (IPMC, Sophia Anti polis near Nice, France), where she supervises projects on the characterization of the Hedgehog receptor Patched. She was a member of the CNRS tenure position recruitment committee and is currently a member of the executive committees of the French Biophysical Society and of the Membrane Group Society. She organized two international summer schools on membrane protein production for structural analysis and two international congresses on membrane biophysics.