Cristina Gonzalez-Gutierez comes from Burgos, Spain. She was already in the lab last year for her Master 2’ trainee and succeeded on getting a grant from the Physics doctoral school to start her PHD in our lab! She will work with Laurent Limozin and Philippe Robert on ‘Contrôle physique des interactions ligand-récepteur de surface induisant une réponse immunitaire.’
Welcome Ambroise Wu
Ambroise is a student from Master 2 Development and Immunology. He’s here for 5 months, with Pierre-Henri Puech.
Welcome Laura Guesquiere-dierickx
Laura starts this month a trainee for her Engineer diploma at Ecole Centrale Marseille. She will be here for 2 months with Pierre-Henri Puech.
PhD Defense of Pierre Dillard
Pierre Dillard defended his PhD thesis entitled: “Impact of ligand presentation on biophysics of T-lymphocyte adhesion” directed by Laurent Limozin and Kheya Sengupta. Speciality Biophysics, Physics Doctoral School. The jury was also composed of: Pierre Bongrand (President), Rajat Varma, Pierre Nassoy (Referees), Benoit Ladoux, Ana-Maria Lennon-Dumenil.
Link to the abstract: http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM4085
Labex Inform interdisciplinary lecture for PhD program
The LAI presented two teaching units during the Labex interdisciplinary teaching session for Starting PhD students (Olivier Theodoly on Rheology, and Pierre-Henri Puech on Imaging processing).
Welcome Anaïs and Serge-William!
Anaïs Sadoun started her PDH with a LABEX INFORM grant. She will be supervised by Pierre-Henri Puech and Yannick Hammon from CIML.
Serge-William Neves-Dias starts a 2 months’ trainee for his bachelor diploma (physique-biologie) with Marie-Pierre Valignat.
PhD Defense of Alexandre Brodovitch
Alexandre Brodovitch defended his PhD thesis entitled: “Antigen detection and initial analysis by T lymphocytes” directed by Pierre Bongrand and Anne Pierres. Speciality Immunology, Life Sciences and Health Doctoral School. The jury was also composed of: Philippe Naquet (President), Claire Hivroz, Salvatore Valitutti (Referees)
Link to the abstract: http://www.theses.fr/186017634
Cell self-steer like single-handed circumnavigators
The mechanism of lymphocytes guiding against a flow was shown to use the tail of lymphocyte like a wind vane in a breeze. This wind vane self-steering system is reminiscent ofa system used by sailors to orient their ship with the wind.
This interdisciplinary work between physics, biology and yachting was published in Nature communication: “Lymphocytes can self-steer passively with wind vane uropods” By:Valignat, MP, Negre, P, Cadra, S, Lellouch, AC, Gallet, F, Henon, S, Theodoly, O;NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 5, 5213, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6213, OCT 2014.
See also on the CNRS web site (INP ‘Actualités)
A new M2 trainee, Cristina Gonzales Gutierrez
Cristina Gonzales starts this month a 5-months traineeship with Olivier Theodoly. She is in the Master 2 Research Development and Immunology and will study migration of T lymphocytes and microfluidics.
Welcome to our new post-doctoral researcher Thomas Sbarrato!
Thomas Sbarrato is citizen from Monaco. He obtained his PhD in Leicester, United Kingdom, at the Medical research council, toxicology unit. He will work with Marie-Pierre Valignat and Olivier Theodoly.
Adhesion & Inflammation Lab 
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