We welcome Aya Nassereddine, from Lebannon. After a master in immunology in Luminy, Aya has started her PhD under the direction of Kheya Sengupta (CINAM) and is now also coadvised by Laurent Limozin in LAI. She is preparing original transparent nanopatterned substrates and use them to study lymphocyte physiology with live microscopy.
Have a great time!
LAI is happy to welcome its newest trainees!
AFM Biomed Summer School 2018 is being organized by LAI members
(Nicolas Buzhinsky, Ignacio Casuso, Pierre-Henri Puech, Felix Rico)
The AFM BioMed Summer School offers an introduction to Atomic Force
Microscopy in Life Sciences and Medicine for PhD students, post-docs,
young scientists and core facility technicians/engineers. Lectures in
the morning are complemented by hands-on experiments in the afternoon.
There are about 25 places for students doing hands-on experiments.
Participants are encouraged to send a CV and a motivation letter. AFM
beginners are welcome.
Looking forward to welcome you in Marseille !
LAI member Leda Lacaria joined the summer school “Mechanobiology of polarized cells” in Physics School in Les Houches, France presenting a poster: “How αvβ3 and α5β1 integrins influence the mechanical properties of melanoma M21 cells?”
Authors: Leda Lacaria, Wolfgang H. Goldmann, José Luis Alonso, Felix Rico.
She enjoyed both great Mont Blanc landscape and mechanobiology (see pics below)!
LAI member Xuan Luo was invited to present her work to the public during the Pi day event at St Charles. We look forward to future participation in other outreach events.
The project “A biophysical study of leucocytes recruitment and its application to Q fever” has been selected for the Interdisciplinary call. It is lead by Marie-Pierre Valignat and involves collaboration with the team of Pr J-L. Mège from Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille.
The project “Selection and application of antibodies under force” has been selected
for the Emergence and Innovation call. It is lead by Laurent Limozin and involves collaboration with the team of Dr P. Chames from Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille.
Omar Ndao, Master student in immunology who did his two-month M1 internship fowith O. Theodoly and X. Luo has come back for another 5-month training under the supervision of PH Puech and L. Limozin. Welcome back!
LAI welcomes Geoffrey Delhaye as our latest PhD candidate. Geoffrey will work under the supervision of Olivier Théodoly and Philippe Robert. His PhD project proposes to develop functional substrates, by proteins printing, for diagnostic purposes in clinical immunology. Geoffrey holds a Master of Chemical Sciences from Mons University in Belgium. His previous research topic was about cortical neurons (from rats) growth in controlled geometry. Welcome Geoffrey!
Great news !
Our lab is involved in a new projects on Toxoplasma oocysts that will be funded by French government through ANR in 2018-2021.
This project is named STRIP, and is led by Isabelle Villena (CHU, Reims). It is in line with the ongoing work of PH Puech (LAI) & A Dumêtre (U. Pharmacy / Inserm Urmite, Marseille) which is described here :
https://toxophysics.wordpress.com/.
Adhesion & Inflammation Lab 
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