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 !

website : http://www.afmbiomed.org/marseille-2018-1.aspx

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.

Kalil Himet has started his master 1 BBSG internship at LAI, entitled “User friendlier optical tweezer force data processing”, under the supervision of P.H. Puech and L. Limozin.

The objective is to create a graphical user interface (GUI) and to optimize functions using Python, Tkinter and GNU/Linux. Soon on GitHub.

LAI has just received an acoustic force spectroscopy (AFS) system from Lumicks.

A new avenue of experiments is now open!

Pierre-Henri Puech, together with Françoise Brochard-Wyart (UPMC) and Pierre Nassoy (CNRS)  co-authored a book proposing an educational synthesis of the physico-chemistry of soft matter. This domain, at the interface between physics and chemistry, also called complex fluids or self-organized systems, concerns materials based on liquid crystals, polymers or surfactants that are organized via weak interactions. The founding principles of this discipline are summarized, based on simple arguments inspired by the teaching method of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991. The extension of these concepts to biological systems also serves as an introduction to modern biophysics. Each concept is illustrated with an example from experiments or industrial applications, as well as the study of biological processes. The book will be available in bookstores and on dunod website from February 28th 2018.

http://www.paca.inserm.fr/actualites/ouvrage-physique-de-la-matiere-molle

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.

A new master 2 student joined the lab. He will perform his internship under the supervision of Felix Rico. LAI wishes him a warm welcome to the lab!