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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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