Fellows

ESR1: Larisa Venkova
Supervisor: Dr. Matthieu Piel

The role of the actomyosin cortex in cell volume regulation

UMR 144, Institut Curie, France
Email: larisa.venkova@curie.fr
Telephone: +33 140795898

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ESR2: Lokesh Pimpale
Supervisor: Prof. Stephan Grill

Torque generation by the actomysion cytoskeleton for chiral symmetry breaking in cell division

Biophysics Department, BIOTEC (TU Dresden), Germany
Email: pimpale@mpi-cbg.de / lokesh.pimpale@biotec.tu-dresden.de
Telephone: +49 351 463 40331

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ESR3: Henry De Belly
Supervisor: Prof. Ewa Paluch

Plasma membrane and cell surface mechanics in embryonic stem cells

Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL, United Kingdom
Email: Henry.debelly@ucl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 20 7679 7806

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ESR4: Sara Tan
Supervisor: Prof. David Strutt

Cell-cell adhesion, cell shape and cell polarity

Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Email: su.tan@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 22 22372

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ESR5: Nicola Pellicciotta
Supervisor: Dr. Pietro Cicuta

Fluid flow as regulator for planar polarity of cilia in epithelial cells

Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Email: np451@cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 7541 080547

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ESR6: Claire Murzeau
Supervisor: Dr. Kai Erdmann

Regulation of the Hippo pathway in polarized cells via multi-PDZ domain proteins and identification of novel players of mechanotransduction. 

Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Email: c.murzeau@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 22 22364

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ESR7: Arnaud Nicolas
Supervisor: Dr. Henriëtte Lanz

Microfluidic platform development for 3D organ on a chip models

MIMETAS - The Organ-on-a-Chip company/Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Faculty of Science, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Email: a.nicolas@mimetas.com
Telephone: +31 85 888 31 61

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ESR8: Carlos Ureña Martín
Supervisor: Prof. Christophe Lamaze

Caveolae mechanosensing and signaling in 3D multicelullar alginate spheroids

U1143 INSERM – UMR3666 CNRS, Institut Curie, France
Email: carlos.urena-martin@curie.fr
Telephone: +33 156 24 63 55

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ESR9: Joanna Zell
Supervisor: Prof. Ludger Johannes

Glycolipid- and lectin-dependant endocytosis studies using chemical biology

UMR3666, Institut Curie, France
Email: Joanna.zell@curie.fr
Telephone: +33 156 24 66 62

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ESR10: Hannes Maib
Supervisor: Prof. Elizabeth Smythe

Interpretation of cargo specific membrane properties by Clathrin Coated Pits

Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Email: H.Maib@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 2308

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ESR11: Shada Abuhattum
Supervisor: Dr. Torsten Müller

Advanced integration of cell mechanical analysis in AFM application software

JPK Berlin/ BIOTEC (TU Dresden), Germany
Email: abuhattum@jpk.com/shada.abuhattum@biotec.tu-dresden.de

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ESR12: Victor Jiménez Jiménez
Supervisor: Prof. Miguel Ángel del Pozo

Caveolin1 role as a potential integrator of cellular mechanical and metabolic cues

Integrin Signaling Group, Cellular and Developmental Biology Area CNIC, Spain
Email: victor.jimenez@cnic.es
Telephone: +34 914 53 12 00  internal code: 1158

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ESR13:Qiuyu Zhuang
Supervisor: Prof. Stefano Piccolo

Assessing the Hippo transducers YAP/TAZ as cancer's master genes

Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Italy
Email: qiuyu.zhuang@studenti.unipd.it
Telephone: +39 049 827-6573

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ESR14: Joan-Carles Escolano Caselles
Supervisor: Prof. Jochen Guck

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of macrophage mechanosensing

Cellular Machines Group, BIOTEC (TU Dresden), Germany
Email: jc.escolano@biotec.tu-dresden.de
Telephone: +49 (0)351 463 40306

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ESR15: Antonio Quílez-Álvarez
Supervisor: Dr. María Montoya Sánchez

Development of High Content Screening cell based assays for deciphering mechanotransduction-driven disease mechanisms

Cellomics Unit, CNIC, Spain
Email: antonio.quilez@cnic.es
Telephone: +34 91 4531200

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ESR16: Ilaria Di Meglio
Supervisor: Prof. Aurelien Roux

Epithelium division and growth under stress in 3D confinement

Biochemistry Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Email: ilaria.dimeglio@unige.ch
Telephone: +41 223796492