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

March 18 at 11:30am

At Amphithéâtre Marie Curie

5th Arr., Paris

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

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