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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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20 Sep
2023
Seminar
11h-23h
Developmental robustness: growth heterogeneity at different scales and mechanical feedback
If you extend your two arms, you will likely find that they match in length by better than 0.2%, though they do not seem to directly communicate during their development and growth. Similarly, flowers in an individual plant are likely to be almost identical in size and shape. Such precision, or robustness, in organ size might seem trivial when conceptualizing observations as reflecting a ‘de
8 Jun
2023
Seminar
14h-23h
Live cell force dynamics – Do cell membranes support or resist tension propagation?
Membrane tension is thought to be a long-range integrator of cell physiology, where it has been proposed to enable cell polarity during migration through front-back coordination and long-range protrusion competition. These roles necessitate effective tension transmission across the cell. However, conflicting observations have left the field divided as to whether cell membranes support or resist te
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