Léa defended her PhD thesis today in front of an hybrid jury (Y. Carrasco, F. Leal-Calderon and A. Asnacios in remote, F. Brochard, J. Husson in person).
During these last 3.5 years, Léa worked under the shared supervision of Paolo (P. Pierobon, U932, Institut Curie) and myself, with a PhD scholarship from the IPV program (Sorbonne Université).
Our collaborative and interdisciplinary project aiming at deciphering phagocytosis mechanisms, involving the group of Florence Niedergang (Biology of Phagocytes, Institut Cochin), the group of Jean-Maurice Mallet and Blaise Dumat (Laboratoire des Biomolécules, Département de Chimie, ENS) and our team.
After a long selection process, we have selected Ms. Laura Jacquelin, pharmacist and student of the Biomedical Engineering Master, for a PhD on the project. She will start around September, after validation of her application by the graduate school.
Despite the confinement, our team was able to start some projects, and host (in remote) several students :
M. ChaoHe HU, funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, joined the team to pursue his PhD. ChaoHe is a skilled materials scientist, and will work on the development of functional particles. Stay tuned !
Some news from the team, since last fall 2018. I’ll start from the most recent :
Mentored by Yong Chen and Jean-François Berret (U. Diderot), Sasha has spent almost 2 years at IPGG with us, working on the reconstitution of lung alveoli on chip. A lot of biology, engineering and microfluidics involved !
Sasha will be sailing around the world for a couple of weeks/months, but you can read her profile here.
Léa will spend two months in the N. Nomura laboratory (U. Tsukuba), under the supervision of Andy Utada.
She will try to combine droplet microfluidics and bacteria ! Good luck to her for the discovery of Japan and for her experiments !
This end of semester was quite heavy, with two PhD graduations !
Pascal, who worked on the synthesis of fluorescent glycolipids to functionalize droplets graduated last week. He did his PhD with two advisors, J.M. Mallet and me.
Olivier, who worked on the developement of a microfluidic chip to perform statistical studies of B-cell antigen extraction, graduated yesterday.
Congratulations to both of them ! It is a good start for their career.
We are currently recruiting for projects taking place at IPGG :
a M2 intern, within the context of a collaboration between our team and the IJPB plant biology lab (INRA AgroParistech).
We aim at studying the possibility to replace current processes based on mechanical cell lysis and centrifugation to perform plant cell fractionation and organelles (e.g. lipid droplets) separation using a specifically designed microfluidics chip.
Regarding the techniques, the proposal is intended for student wishing to work in an interdisciplinary environment and acquire knowledge in microfabrication, plant cell manipulation and biology, microscopy, etc. The project is suitable for physicists with an interest for biology.
Interested candidates should send a cover letter explaining their relevant work experience, a curriculum vitae and contact details of two references by e-mail to Jacques Fattaccioli (jacques.fattaccioli@ens.fr).
News were scarce lately, and it is now time to summarize what happened during this last months (in fact … almost a year!) :
OK, soon, summer vacations will start. And then la rentrée !
A bientôt.
