
EMBO Member
Laurent Blanchoin
EMBO 2021
Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (IRIG), Grenoble, France
Physics of cytoskeleton and morphogenesis
Our lab is focused on understanding how the cytoskeleton is organized and constrained to regulate cell morphogenesis. We have several complementary approaches from in-vitro reconstitution of cytoskeleton dynamics to cellular manipulation and observation. All these experimental strategies are coupled with theoretical models allowing a better description of how molecular events are orchestrated to determine macroscopic properties of the cytoskeleton necessary for cellular function.
Keywords
Cytoskeleton dynamics / actin organization / reconstituted systems / cell motility / micro-patterning / biophysics / modelling