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/
We welcome Florian Dupuy, our new INSERM engineering assistant. Florian has had extensive experience at the Cochin Insitiute in the parasitology team Biology of Plasmodium Transmission, where he put to use his cellular and molecular biology skills to decipher the plasmodium parasite’s interactions with host cells, a critical step towards finding antimalarial drugs.
Florian will deploy his valued experience in the many projects of LAI for years to come.
Each year, the CNRS awards talented women and men, support staff in research, whose creativity, mastery and innovative flair, contributes to pushing knowledge and to the excellence of French research, with the “médaille de cristal” (crystal medal) 🏅.
We are proud to announce that our engineer Martine Pelicot was chosen as one of the recipients of the 2022 edition. Congratulations!
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
The collaboration between the LAI (O Theodoly), the team of Tam Mignot (LCB, Marseille), and the team of Guillaume Sudre and David Laurent (IMP, Lyon) patented a process to adhere bacteria on microscope slides in 2018. The patent is now exploited by the company Idylle, and a commercial product is on the market, called “chitozen”.
For more information on the product: https://www.idylle-labs.com/chitozen-by-chitosan
For more information about the collaboration, and the involvement of CNRS: https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/idylle-une-nouvelle-voie-de-valorisation-pour-les-outils-de-recherche
After almost 4 years with us, Farah Mustapha has successfully defended her PhD. Farah completed her work under the supervision of Pierre-Henri Puech at LAI and Kheya Sengupta at CINaM (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille). Throughout her PhD, she produced soft gels as a substitute for antigen presenting cells (APC) to perform traction force microscopy (TFM) experiments with the aim of investigating the role of mechanotransduction in T cell activation. 🥂
Valentine participated in the AQV DAYS 2022: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO LIVING SYSTEMS conference where she presented a poster entitled “Haptotaxis towards low adhesion” and won the prize for best poster! Congratulations Valentine!
LAI welcomes the new PhD students within its fold. This year, 5 students are joining us.
Ismahene Mesbah will be working on decoding protein structural folds, sequence, and structural motifs for the mechanical stability of proteins, and Devam Purohit will be quantifying and manipulating the molecular elasticity of muscle in vitro and in vivo. Both are working at LAI and IBDM and are funded by CENTURI.
We also have Luc David-Broglio who will be developing immunological diagnostic tools that are based on antibody micro-printing and his project is funded by Région PACA, Chandrasekar Subramani-Narayana who will work between LAI and LIS and will use deep learning for image inference, resolution increase and classification of adhered immune cells and is funded by AMU, and finally, Loriane Maillot who will be working between LAI and CIML to investigate molecular dynamics of the thymic immunological synapse during leukemogenesis.
A big welcome to our new batch of students this year, and all the best on your journey!
Yet another summer that ends with the graduation of a new PhD. Nicolas Garcia Seyda joined the lab as an engineer before deciding to pursue his PhD in the sunny city. He successfully defended his thesis entitled “Live imaging of leukocyte migration in controlled in vitro setups”. His presence in the lab is surely going to be missed, we wish him the best on his new adventures!
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