Welcome to our webpage
Our lab is looking for highly motivated students and postdocs who want to work experimentally at the frontier between physics and biology. If you are interested, send us an email describing your motivations and and two recommandations letter. We will carefully review your application and quickly contact you back to discuss your project.
Our research aims at understanding how living organisms interact with their environment. In particular, we are studying the cooperation between adhesion, bio-mechanical and bio-chemical signaling for the adaptation of living organisms to changes in their environment. We adress this issue in various model organisms, from bacteria and yeast cells to higher eukaryotic cells and nematodes. To probe these questions, our laboratory has developed a repertoire of micro- and nano-fabrication tools to control and measure the chemical and mechanical environment of cells. Our research program thus focuses on the integration of novel microfabricated devices for the quantitative imaging of living organisms.
We are conducting several research programs that specifically address the following subjects:
1.Development of novel microfabrication tools for biological research applications.
2.Mechanics of multicellular growth and migration.
3.Dynamics of signaling pathways in yeast
4.Regulation of cell-substrate and cell-cell interactions and the role of mechanical forces in cell function.
5.Locomotion of the nematode C. elegans.
Please visit our Research Project webpage for more details.
