Alumni
Guilherme Nader finished his post-doctorate in July 2022. He studied the consequences of the loss of integrity of the nuclear envelope caused by the deformation of the nucleus in confined microenvironments. He is now Team Leader at the Children's Hospital of the Philadelphia Research Institute (CHOP) affiliated with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His team's basic research focuses on: nuclear mechano-sensing of cells that grow and move in dense microenvironments such as tumor microenvironment, interstitial space or dense tissues.
Pablo Vargas was a Researcher in the team from 2015 to 2022. He created the MOTILE team, which was dedicated to the development of innovative tools to study the migration of immune cells at the single cell level in controlled micro-environments. He is now Team Leader at the Necker Institute, Pablo studies the link between leukocyte migration and immune disorders, and also develops microfabricated technologies on Necker campus, facilitating the study of single-cell mechanics in smears patients.
Larisa Venkova did her thesis and a post-doctorate in the team, where she studied in particular the regulation of cell volume in response to deformations. Larisa is now post-doctoral fellow at the Cellular Biochemistry and Genetics Institute of Bordeaux
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Juan Manuel Garcia Arcos did his thesis in the team. He studied the mechanism of stabilization and motility of the blebs of confined cancer cells. He is now a post-doctoral fellow in the team of Aurélien Roux, at the University of Geneva, where he studies the link between: dynamics of the cell cortex and tension of the plasma membrane
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Aastha Mathur did her post-doctoral research on the study of the mechanics of 3D cell motility using a simplified system. She is now Data Scientist within the Euro-BioImaging company.
Pablo J. Sáez did his post-doctoral work on the migration of immune cells in a confined environment. He is now team leader at Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany.
Twitter Profile & ResearchGate Profile
Zahraa Alraies did her thesis, jointly supervised with the team of Ana-Maria Lennon, on the transcriptional response of dendritic cells to mechanical stress which dictates their homeostatic migration towards the lymph node. She also investigated the role of nuclear envelope integrity in cellular aging. Zahraa continues her research as a post-doctoral fellow in the team of Ana-Maria Lennon.
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Lucie Barbier did her thesis in the team, on the study of cellular mechanisms allowing the migration of dendritic cells in restricted spaces. She is now a post-doctoral fellow in the team of Marie-Hélène Verlhac et Marie-Emilie Terret, within the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Biology (CIRB) of the Collége de France.
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Valentin Laplaud did his thesis, jointly supervised with the team of Olivia Du Roure, on the study of deformations of the nucleus and of the actin cytoskeleton during cell migration in confined environments, and by the use of magnetic tools. He is now a post-doctoral fellow in the team of Arezki Boudaoud's, where he develops experimental systems to study the physics behind biological systems.
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Ido Lavi did his thesis, jointly supervised with the team of Raphaël Voituriez, on the physical modeling of cell motility and morphodynamics. He is now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Barcelona, within the Institute of Complex Systems.
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Rafaele Attia carried out her post-doctorate on the study of the migration of immune cells in a confined environment, and in particular on the importance of Myosin II in the migration of dendritic cells. Rafaele is now a Research Engineer at the Roscoff biological station, where she develops microfluidic tools for cell biology and in particular the production of single cells in live imaging.
Clotilde Cadart completed her thesis on the homeostasis of the size of animal cells in culture. She is now working on the consequences of ploidy on the size and growth of Xenopus embryo cells, in the Heald lab in Berkely, California (USA).
Hawa-Racine Thiam completed her thesis on cell migration under confinement, and she is now Team Leader at Stanford University.
Website of her team & ResearchGate Profile
Paolo Maiuri, post-doctoral fellow in the team between 2012 and 2015, he is now Team Leader at the University of Naples - Frederick II.
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Franziska Lautenschlaeger, post-doctoral fellow in the team between 2012-2013, she is now team leader at the University of Saarlandes in Saarbrücken in Germany.
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Yanjun Liu, post-doctoral fellow in the team between 2012-2014, she is now team leader at Fudan University, China.
Alexis Lomakin, post-doc in the team between 2016-2017, he is now team leader at the Medical University of Vienna.