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Science Week at the Lycée Français de Singapour

November 15, 2018

Virgile Viasnoff has been awarded an NRF investigatorship.

February 5, 2018

Visit of the Frederique Vidal, the french ministry of research to our lab

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Biomechanics of cell-cell contacts

NUS / CNRS UMI 3639

Virgile Viasnoff's Lab

Mechanobiology Institute, 5A Engineering Drive1, 117411 Singapore

Tel: +65 6601 1400

Quantittative imaging of a single cell-cell junction in a supended doublet (E-cad GFP)

Biology/Biophysics

One of the many kind of single cell microniche we can create

Technology

migration assay

Diagnostics

Mechanosensation

Role of actin dynamics at adherens junction
Mechanosensitivity of tight junctions.
Mechanosensation by YAP

Phenotypic sorting

Assays to sort cells by their dynamic adaptation to environmental changes.
Screening tumor heterogeneity by phenotypes

Membwell

Creating a unique approach to control all environmental cues (biochemistry, rheology and topography) in 3D: in vitro microniches

Apico-basal Polarity

Determine the minimal cues to induce apico-basal polarity
Developement of bile cancaliculi
Single cell epithelium

soSPIM

Single molecule imaging in 3D
50x50x100nm resolution over the 30 um above coverslip.
3D FCS and sptPalm

Structured co-culture

Structuring biochemical cues to create 3D organized co-culture of spheroids.
in vitro system to study ALS