OLIVIER THEODOLY

DR1 – HDR – PHD ot

Director of the laboratory

Mail : olivier.theodoly@inserm.fr

Phone: 04.91.82.88.69

Position and past experience

2016-now Director of Laboratory “Adhesion & Inflammation”

2006-now CNRS Researcher at Laboratory “Adhesion & Inflammation” (CNRS, Inserm, Aix-Marseille Université)
Interface Physics, Biology and Medecine

2001-2005 CNRS Researcher at the joined Laboratory between CNRS, Rhodia Inc., and Princeton University (NJ, USA)
Interface Physics, Chemistry and Industry

2000-2001 Post-Doc with Pr CJ Radke at Dpt. of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley (California, USA)

1996-1999 PhD with C. Williams and V. Bergeron in the Laboratory “Physics of Condensed Matter” of Pr Pierre-Gilles de Gennes at the «Collège de France» (Paris, France)

Formation

2015                Equivalent of university full professor at CNRS (“Directeur de recherches »)

2010                Diploma «Habilitation to Supervise Research» (Aix-Marseilles University)

2015                Equivalent of university assistant professor at CNRS (“Chargé de recherches »)

1995-1996      Master in « Physical theory of fluids» (University of Paris 6, France)

1992-1996      Ecole de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (Paris, France)

Current research interests

– Cell migration: mechanisms of amoeboid propulsion, swimming, crawling and transmigration

– Cell guidance: mechanisms of mechanotaxis, haptotaxis and chemotaxis

– Cell deformability: passage of blood cells in biomimetic microfluidic blood vessel

– Medical transfer: developments of microfluidic and microprinted tools for diagnostic

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