We are excited to present our team’s key contributions to the GDR Approches Quantitatives du Vivant 2024 conference, held in Vogüé, Ardèche:

• Ahmad Awada’s Poster Presentation: “Amoeboid Swimming is Propelled by Molecular Paddling in Lymphocytes”
• Jana El Husseiny’s Poster Presentation: “Unraveling Morphological and Biomechanical Responses to Harsh Environmental Conditions in Coccidian Oocysts”
• Valentine Seveau de Noray’s Talk: “Reverse Adhesive Haptotaxis: Cell Migration Towards Low Adhesion”

We extend our gratitude to the conference organizers for a stimulating and inspiring event. We look forward to continuing our research and sharing our findings with the scientific community.

After a successful virtual conference in 2021, LAI members Pierre-Henri Peuch and Laurent Limozin took on the challenge of re-organizing the EMBO Workshop on ImmunoBiophysics: From fundamental physics to understanding the immune response. This time, the attendees had the chance to gather in the heart of Haute-Savoie at the Les Houches Physics School!

In addition, our Ph.D. students Marie Dessard, Jana El Husseiny, and Lama Awada presented posters on their projects while Rémy Torro gave a contributed talk for which he won the best talk prize!

For more information and updates on the upcoming organized talks: https://meetings.embo.org/event/23-immunobiophysics

The EMBO Workshop: ImmunoBiophysics: From fundamental physics to understanding immune response is back with its newest edition! The workshop which is organized by our very own Pierre-Henri Puech and Laurent Limozin boasts an impressive list of speakers in the life sciences, biophysics, and mechanobiology fields.

The registration deadline is 5 March 2023. For more information: https://meetings.embo.org/event/20-immunobiophysics

Beatriz Díaz Bello and Rémy Torro participated at the New Microscopies in Cell Biology at Institut Jacques Monod in Paris where they co-presented a talk entitled “A deep learning-based software to measure immune cytotoxicity, in single cells, over time”, a co-presentation that highlights the interdisciplinary pursued at LAI and the constant back and forth between biologists and physicists. The conference was co-organized by Pierre-Henri Puech.

For more information: https://newmic4cellbio.sciencesconf.org/ on December 13th

Flash talk – DIAZ BELLO Beatriz (LAI): A deep learning-based modular software to locate, track and measure single-cell ADCC over time.

Flash talk – NUÑEZ VIADERO EIDER (LAI): Development of the state of the art technology to monitor protein-folding in real time under physiological conditions.

Flash talk – ROBERT Philippe (LAI): On and off-rates measurements at the single molecular level with laminar flow chamber: a need for new links and linkers.

Pierre-Henri Puech is giving a seminar at the Novel Applications of Optical Tweezers in the Physical and Life Sciences webinar organized by Bruker on October 12! For more information: https://mbns.bruker.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/9063/p/p-02ec/t/page/fm/2?sid=TV2:isfchtYbJ

Our PhD student Chandrasekar SUBRAMANI NARAYANA presented a poster entitled “Deep Learning Based Counting & Localization of Phage Under TIRF Microscopy” at the conference organized by the Institute Imaging Marseille this September!

Our PhD students participated in the Physics of Living Matter conference organized in Marseille this year which was followed by PLM 16 II at Cambridge! Valentine Seveau gave a talk, while Ismahene Mesbah, Rémy Torro and Beatriz Diaz Bello presented their posters!

For more information: https://centuri-livingsystems.org/plm16/

Lama Awada, Farah Mustapha, and Pierre-Henri Puech presented their posters at one of the most anticipated conferences of the year in Siena, Italy. In addition, Lama was awarded the EFIS-EJI grant which is dedicated to young scientists who produced abstracts of outstanding quality!

For more details: https://meetings.embo.org/event/20-lymphocyte