O. Theodoly (LAI) and M. Bajénoff (CIML) have been selected by the DOC2AMU program on a collaborative interdisciplinary project for a PhD grant of 3 years. They now need to find a non-french candidate for the final audition.
LAI welcomes N. Garcia Seyda who is joining us for 6 months as Engineer!
Nicolas Garcia Seyda is a biotechnologist from Argentina and he’s joining the lab this February for a period of six months, to work under supervision of M.P. Valignat in a position funded by our entrepreneurial collaborator Nanolane. The main objective will be to test their newly designed N-Lab, a device combining microfluidics with nano-scale staining-free optical imaging. The device is based on the Wet-Surf (SEEC) technology developed in the lab by M.P. Valignat. More information about the technology can be found on the web site http://www.nano-lane.com/
A medical doctor is doing an internship at LAI
Welcome to Radia Bouregaa who will be doing her Master 2 internship for 3 months, in the frame of the Marseille University Human Pathologies Program. She will work on the role of Gpr56 in the recruitment of cytotoxic leukocytes under the supervision of Cyrille Mionnet.
Nature Article released with LAI participation
The group of Tam Mignot, with which O. Theodoly has been collaborating for 10 years, is pursuing his leading research activity on the mechanisms of micro-organisms motility. A novel paper in the journal Nature with association of LAI for technical support on microscopy experiments has just been published: “The mechanism of force transmission at bacterial focal adhesion complexes”, Volume: 539, Issue: 7630, Pages: 530, DOI: 10.1038/nature20121, Published: NOV 24 2016.
Labex PhD program, lecture course
LAI participated in a special teaching week dedicated to the introduction of physics and biophysics concepts to the PhD students of Labex INFORM. Microfluidics, cell migration, cell mechanics, image processing and data processing were some of the topics of these courses. We kept on the tracks of Dec. 2015 and Dec. 2014 sessions and got a very good feedback from biology students!
A new article on bacteria adhesion & motility
Laura Faure, Jean Bernard Fiche, Leon Espinosa, Adrien Ducret, Jennifer Luciano, Sébastien Lhospice, Salim Islam, Julie Tréguier, Erkin Kuru, Yves Brun, Olivier Théodoly, Marcelo Nollmann, Tâm Mignot (2016) The mechanism of force transmission at bacterial focal adhesion complexes. Nature. 539(7630):530-535.
Laminar flow chamber 2.0 in Scientific Reports
We published the first paper obtained with our in-house designed and built laminar flow chamber automation. This innovative machine allows fast single molecular force studies, for both kinetics and thermodynamic studies. Please see: A Rough Energy Landscape to Describe Surface-Linked Antibody and Antigen Bond Formation. Sci Rep. 2016 Oct 12;6:35193.
Congrats, Alexander !
Alexander just defended his PhD… congrats !
PhD defense of Alexander Hornung
Congratulations to Dr Alexander Hornung who got his PhD in Biophysics from the doctoral school of Physics. His thesis was under the supervision of Marie-Pierre Valignat and is entitled “Two-dimensional migration of human effector T-cells: Integrin-dependent motility studies under shear stress”.
Adhesion & Inflammation Lab 
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