PhD defense

LAI celebrated its newest Dr !

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On October 3rd, 2025, Loriane Maillot successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Cibler l’axe RANK/RANKL dans l’émergence et la dissémination de la leucémie lymphoblastique aiguë T”, conducted under the supervision of Arnauld Sergé (LAI) and Magali Irla (CIML).

Her work was evaluated by a distinguished examination committee composed of Emmanuel Clave, Terence Strick, Marie-Laure Arcangeli, Cyril Favard, and Olivier Theodoly.

The LAI warmly congratulates Dr. Loriane on this important milestone and wishes her every success in the next steps of her career. We thank her for her hard work, dedication, and the positive energy she shared within the laboratory.

LAI celebrated its newest Dr !

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On the 16th of september 2025, Chandrasekar Subramani Narayana successfully defended his work titled “Deep learning-based counting and binding kinetics of bacteriophages imaged by fluorescence microscopy“, under the supervision of Laurent Limozin and Stéphane Ayache. This achievement was presented to a distinguished panel of experts in the field, including Laurent Vonna, Rémi Eyraud, Guillaume Gay and Cécile Capponi,

LAI wishes you all the best for the rest of your career, full of success, and thanks you for your hard work and the positive energy you shared within the laboratory.

Bye bye CS !!

LAI celebrated its newest Dr !

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On the 23th of June 2025, Luc David Broglio successfully defended his work titled “Outils diagnostics pour l’immunologie basés sur la micro-impression d’anticorps“, under the supervision of Olivier Theodoly and Philippe Robert. This achievement was presented to a distinguished panel of experts in the field, including Charlotte Riviere, Sylvain Gabriele, Régis Costello, Sophie Asnacios and Vincent Studer.

We thank Luc for his dedicated work developing microchips printed with multiple functional proteins to measure the kinetics of leukocyte activation at the single-cell level. The entire lab warmly congratulates Luc for this important milestone and wishes him continued success in his future scientific endeavors!

LAI celebrated its newest Dr !

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On the 28th of June 2024, Lama Awada successfully defended her work titled “Imprint of mechanical forces on antibody affinity maturation in B cell immune responses“. This achievement was presented to a distinguished panel of experts in the field, including Katelyn Spillane, Paolo Pierobon, Rodolphe Jaffiol, and Kheya Sengupta. Lama’s journey began as a Centuri student, under the supervision of Philippe Robert from LAI and Pierre Milpied from CIML.

Her dedication and hard work have culminated in this significant accomplishment, marking a pivotal moment in her academic career. Best of luck in your future endeavors, Lama!

LAI celebrated its newest Dr

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On the 4th of April 2024, Rémy Torro, Ph.D. successfully defended his work titled “High throughput analysis of dynamic single cell interactions imaged by multimodal optical microscopy” in front of a jury composed of experts in the field, Alice Nicolas, David Rousseau, Daniel Sage, Loïc Dupré under the supervision of Laurent Limozin and Kheya sengupta. His work focused on develloping a software called Celldetective to describe complex cell interactions from multimodal microscopy images, leveraging recent AI techniques and applying it to test cell engagers for immunotherapy in cell-surface and cell-cell interaction assays.

Celldetective is now available and free to use on GitHub: https://lnkd.in/dGpj_UUx

Best of luck, Remy!

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LAI celebrates Marc Karnat’s thesis (Visiting PhD Student from CPT)

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Marc did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Jean-Francois Rupprecht at CPT (kindly hosted at LAI) and funded by CENTURI. On monday, 18th December, he successfully defended his thesis which is entitled “Inferring the rheology of cellular materials through dedicated deep learning tools” in front of an expert jury consisting of Romain Levayer, Hervé Turlier, Hélène Delanoë-Ayari, Bianca Habermann, Thierry Artières and Sham Tlili.

Luckily, he’ll stay with us for a few months in 2024 to finish his project and we wish him the best of luck in his future. Again, Congratulations Marc for your incredible work !!

LAI celebrates Achyuth Acharya’s thesis!

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On the 11th of December, Achyuth Acharya successfully defend his work titled ‘Multiscale Characterization of Human Muscle Differentiation in vitro and the Influence of Mechanical Stimuli‘. The defense took place in front of a distinguished jury comprising experts in the field: Edgar Gomes, Delphine Duprez, Sylvain Gabrielle, and Sophie Chauvet.

Achyuth began his journey with IBDM and LAI as a Centuri student under the guidance of Frank Schnorrer from IBDM and Olivier Theodoly from LAI. He has now advanced to the next stage of his academic journey. He will be continuing his impactful project as a post-doc at IBDM, and we extend our heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to him.

Best of luck, Achyuth!

Merlin Sanicas becomes a doctor… Again!

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A medical doctor by training, Merlin decided to embark on a fundamental science journey in 2019 and hasn’t looked back since. Merlin did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Patrick Chames at CRCM and Laurent Limozin at LAI. He successfully defended his thesis which is entitled “Selection of nanobodies by a microfluidic mechanical approach for therapeutic purposes” in the presence of an expert jury consisting of Marie-Alix Poul, Charlie Gosse, and Hervé Nozach.

Merlin has already been employed by Immunocore in the UK where he’s utilizing his skills in a more applied setting. We wish him the best of luck, as well as a lot of Marvel content in his future!

LAI celebrates its newest Dr!

Lama Awada PhD defense

On Wednesday, 10th May, Mar successfully defended her Ph.D. project titled “Fast phenotyping of cell mechanics in the inflammatory response” in front of a jury composed of experts in the field: Nils Gauthier, Laura Picas, Jochen Guck, Jean-Luc Pellequer, Réjane Rua and Nathalie Pujol. We are delighted to share the news of her exceptional accomplishment and the invaluable contributions she has made to our lab’s research. Mar Eroles embarked on her Ph.D. journey as a student of the prestigious European ITN Phys2BioMed program to investigate the mechanics of monocytes and macrophages under hyperinflammatory conditions. Congratulations Mar and we can’t wait to see what you achieve next!