Seminar/ Colloquium

Title : Exploring how epithelial cells are shaped by the mechanics of surrounding tissues.
Speaker : Dr. Muriel Grammont, Laboratoire de Biologie et de Modélisation Cellulaire at the ENS de Lyon, France.
Date : 31/10/2022, 05:30 PM , Ramanujan Hall, IISER Tirupati Transit Campus.

Abstract  — Bio Sketch:

Muriel Grammont is group leader of the “Epithelial Differentiation and Morphogenesis in Drosophila “team in the Laboratoire de Biologie et de Modélisation Cellulaire at the ENS de Lyon and the Deputy Director of the “Biologie Moléculaire et Intégrative Cellulaire” doctoral school that oversees about 300 doctoral students throughout Lyon. Dr. Grammont was trained during her Ph.D in Drosophila development by Dr Jean-Louis Couderc, a PI at the GReD Institute in Clermont-Ferrand (France). She did her post-doc in Kenneth Irvine’s laboratory at Rutger’s University (NJ, USA) and became a CNRS researcher in 2002 in Clermont-Ferrand (France). She established her own group in 2010 in Lyon, in the CGphiMC laboratory before joining the ENS of Lyon in 2012. Dr. Grammont has directed the work of four Ph.D. students, two post-doctoral fellows, and several research associates and technicians. The team is currently composed of 3 permanent researchers (MG, an Assistant Professor and a research associate), two Ph.D students and a 2^nd-year Master student. Dr. Grammont’s field of research are cell differentiation and morphogenesis using genetic, cellular, mechanical and image analysis approaches. She has 12 papers as either first- (6) or corresponding-author (5) in high impact journals such as PLoS Biology, JCB, Development etc.