Farah Mustapha (Faculté de Sciences, rafic hariri, Lebanon) was selected by Doc2AMU program for a 3-year PhD funding on “Smart Interrogation of Mechanosensing in T cell Activation” with Pierre-Henri Puech and K.Sengupta (CINaM) as co-advisors. she will join in October the lab. Congratulations !
LAI welcomes Aya Nassereddine as a PhD student
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 welcomes new trainees!
LAI is happy to welcome its newest trainees!
Master 1 Développement et immunologie : 03/04 – 31/05
→Marie GAVAZZI
→Maddy MESSA
→Ethan DEL GHINGARO
Poly tech Marseille – Génie biologique et biotechnologie : 14/05 – 06/07
→ Quentin FABREGA
→ Guillaume JOUVENNE
→ Tifanie BLEIN
ENSAIA école ingé agroalimentaire (spé bio tech) : 12/03 – 09/09
→ Tom FILLOT
M2R BC2T- Genome et destin cellulaire : 16/01 – 23/06
→ Petra HATOUM
Microélectronique : 05/04 – 24/06
→ Nejmeddine LAKHAL
We wish you a nice stay in the lab!
AFM Summer School organization @ LAI
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”
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 participated in the Pi Day 2018
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.
Welcome Kalil!
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.
AFS now available at LAI!
LAI has just received an acoustic force spectroscopy (AFS) system from Lumicks.
A new avenue of experiments is now open!
Two new grants for LAI
Felix Rico has been awarded a HFSP grant to study the “Evolutionary mechanics of adhesion complexes”, with Marcos Sotomayor (Ohio State University) and Vincent Lynch (University of Chicago).
Pierre-Henri Puech is starting, thanks to the CNRS PICS program, a collaboration with Mathieu Hautefeuille @ Facultad de Ciencias, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México http://www.fciencias.unam.mx/directorio/71182.
The project aims at characterizing the adhesion and mechanosension in fibrosis
Congrats to both!
Soon it will be out !
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
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