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PASCAL HERSEN / MATHIEU COPPEY
Physical Chemistry Curie (UMR168)

The goal of the unit is to uncover the role of physical laws in the architecture and functions of cellular systems. To this end, the teams follow cross-disciplinary approaches involving physics, chemistry and biology.

 

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physicists, chemists and biologists, including 35 researchers, 39 PhD students, 31 postdoctoral fellows and 28 technicians and engineers
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Research teams labeled by prestigious funding agencies (ERC, ANR, H2020, FRM, ARC, La Ligue, etc ...)
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state of the arts platforms in biochemistry and molecular biology, microfluidics, microfabrication, electron microscopy
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25 May
2023
Seminar
14h-23h
Junctional Force Patterning drives both Positional and Orientational Order in Auditory Epithelia
For physiological function, organs must organise constituent cell types in precise spatial and orientational order. While in single-cell type epithelia, morphogenesis is driven by forces exerted at cell junctions, it is not known whether forces can drive the acquisition of patterns and polarity in organs comprising multiple cell types. In this talk, I will discuss the process of global alignment i
24 May
2023
Seminar
11h-23h
Measuring and shaping the optical phase: new tools for biology and chemistry
Spatially-resolved techniques to control and image the phase of light have deeply transformed microscopy. In this talk, I will briefly clarify the notion of optical phase and present two phase-sensitive techniques offering high sensitivity and 3D capabilities: holography and wavefront sensing. Using holography, individual magnetic nanorods can be actuated and used as probes of the local viscosity
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