We are pleased to annonce that the PACA region selected our project « RARE DETECT » for funding. This grant will finance the acquisition of a brand new cell analyser and cell sorter to the level of 149.000 euros. It will allow the Inserm TPR2 to upgrade outstandingly the commun facility of ‘culture cell biology’, opened to all researchers on site.

We are happy to announce that the Innovative Training Network (ITN) Phys2BioMed will start in 2019 with 15 Early Stage Researcher positions http://www0.mi.infn.it/~podesta/Phys2BioMed_open_positions.pdf 

Stay tuned!

LAI proudly participated in the ”La Fête de la Science” in Marseille from 12 to 14 October to promote science among the general public. During this time, Geoffrey was invited by Radio Grenouille to share his thoughts on air. You can listen by following the link here :

Fête de la Science – Idées reçues, idées envoyées

Congratulations and thanks to all for your contribution!

Farah Mustapha joined the lab as a Doc2AMU PhD student in October. She will work on “Smart Interrogation of Mechanosensing in T cell Activation” with Pierre-Henri Puech and K.Sengupta (CINaM) as co-advisors. Welcome!

Beatriz Chaves has joined the laboratory on October 4th, and comes from Messejana, Brasil. She is a graduate student, and she will work here for two month on a new inhibiting singel-chain antibody against VLA-4 she contributed to design and produce, to quantify its effect in vitro on T lymphocyte adhesion and migration. Welcome!

LAI was back in Cargèse ! LAI members Geoffrey Delhaye and Leda Lacaria participated in the workshop Physics of biological integrated systems and both presented a poster!  Congratulations! Check out the pics!

LAI member Geoffrey Delhaye participated in the annual meeting of GDR CellTiss from October 1st to 3rd in La Chapelle-Gauthier that was focused on current biophysical topics addressed at different levels, from molecular to cellular and tissue scales.

LAI members Laurent Limozin, Aya Nassereddine and Anaïs Sadoun  participated in the EMBO workshop “Lymphocyte antigen receptor signalling” in Siena, Italy from August 25th-29th. They each presented a poster regarding their research and PhD work. Congratulations to all!

LAI members Xuan Luo, Cristina Gonzalez and Anaïs Sadoun participated in the Physics of Living Matters conference from September 11th-12th. They each presented a poster regarding their PhD work. Congratulations!