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This event is in the past.It took place on March 18, 2026 at Amphithéâtre Marie Curie.

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Educational Talk

How mechanical forces shape bacterial infections

5th Arr.

Bacteria and human cells are locked in a microscopic tug-of-war. This Institut Curie talk reveals how mechanical forces shape infections, from pressurized E. coli to the "ancreopodia" structures that meningitis bacteria use to grip our blood vessels.

Science talk
Biophysics research
Institut Curie

Tips

🧫accessible to curious non-scientists too
📝bring a notebook — it's dense
🏛️Institut Curie is a Nobel Prize-winning lab

Amphithéâtre Marie Curie

11 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France

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