The LAI presented two teaching units during the Labex interdisciplinary teaching session for Starting PhD students (Olivier Theodoly on Rheology, and Pierre-Henri Puech on Imaging processing).
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Welcome Anaïs and Serge-William!
Anaïs Sadoun started her PDH with a LABEX INFORM grant. She will be supervised by Pierre-Henri Puech and Yannick Hammon from CIML.
Serge-William Neves-Dias starts a 2 months’ trainee for his bachelor diploma (physique-biologie) with Marie-Pierre Valignat.
PhD Defense of Alexandre Brodovitch
Alexandre Brodovitch defended his PhD thesis entitled: “Antigen detection and initial analysis by T lymphocytes” directed by Pierre Bongrand and Anne Pierres. Speciality Immunology, Life Sciences and Health Doctoral School. The jury was also composed of: Philippe Naquet (President), Claire Hivroz, Salvatore Valitutti (Referees)
Link to the abstract: http://www.theses.fr/186017634
Cell self-steer like single-handed circumnavigators
The mechanism of lymphocytes guiding against a flow was shown to use the tail of lymphocyte like a wind vane in a breeze. This wind vane self-steering system is reminiscent ofa system used by sailors to orient their ship with the wind.
This interdisciplinary work between physics, biology and yachting was published in Nature communication: “Lymphocytes can self-steer passively with wind vane uropods” By:Valignat, MP, Negre, P, Cadra, S, Lellouch, AC, Gallet, F, Henon, S, Theodoly, O;NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 5, 5213, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6213, OCT 2014.
See also on the CNRS web site (INP ‘Actualités)
A new M2 trainee, Cristina Gonzales Gutierrez
Cristina Gonzales starts this month a 5-months traineeship with Olivier Theodoly. She is in the Master 2 Research Development and Immunology and will study migration of T lymphocytes and microfluidics.
Welcome to our new post-doctoral researcher Thomas Sbarrato!
Thomas Sbarrato is citizen from Monaco. He obtained his PhD in Leicester, United Kingdom, at the Medical research council, toxicology unit. He will work with Marie-Pierre Valignat and Olivier Theodoly.
Welcome to our new PhD students Yoon & Alex
This month, Yoon Koo and Alexander Hornung have started their PhD projects.
Yoon comes from Korea. She will be supervised by Anne-Marie Lellouch and Jean-Pierre Gorvel in a Labex inform project involving also Marie-Pierre Valignat and Olivier Theodoly. The goal is to develop study the migration properties of T lymphocytes subpopulation generated by the infection of mice by Bordetella Perrtussis.
Alexander comes from Austria. He will be supervised by Marie-Pierre Valignat and investigate the properties of lymphocyte migration on substrates with different adhesion properties.
A new research assistant (Ingénieur d’Etudes) in LAI!
Martine Pelicot starts her new job in LAI. Martine has 4 years’ experience in a private company, VIRBAC and was then hired by INSERM in Paris, in unit U699 Immunopathologie Rénale, Récepteurs et Inflammation. She is now temporarily hosted at LAI as a research assistant. Martine will be in charge of producing new types of engineered cells, with her background of molecular biology and flow cytometry skills.
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