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