Welcome on the website of the 3rd edition of the PSL Soft and Living Matter days! This event will take place from July 3rd to 6th 2023 at Institute Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (rue Calvin, 75005 Paris) and will give the opportunity to the PSL community to learn and discuss about research activities in the broad field of Soft Matter.

In addition to the exciting line of speakers (see below), we will have several topical sessions with contributed talks and one apero-poster session. So we count on you to register to the event and submit an abstract! 

Deadline for registration and abstract submission 12 May 2023

Registration (mandatory to attend the summer school and workshop) HERE

Abstract submission for poster/oral (you need to be registered first) HERE 

Confirmed invited speakers

Summer school

Giovanni Volpe (University of Gothenburg) Introduction to Deep Learning for Soft Matter

Yvette Tran (ESPCI) Chemistry tools to design responsive hydrogels and interfaces

Cécile Cottin-Bizonne (Université de Lyon) Phoretic transport and active matter

Artem Kovalenko (ESPCI) Basic concepts and new questions in drying of soft materials

Alice Lebreton (ENS) Tracking invasive bacteria to unsuspected lairs by following the trail of their virulence factors

Marie-Emilie Terret (Collège de France) Cortical tension : a key regulator of oocyte quality

Workshop

Guillaume Gines (ESPCI) DNA circuits featuring droplet microfluidics: from biosensing to directed evolution of enzymes

Gilles Gasser (ENSCP) Metal Complexes as Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Zoher Gueroui (ENS) Engineering phase separations in cells to manipulate biomolecular condensates

Isabelle Cantat (Université de Rennes) Liquid foam flows : local models and experiments

Claire Wilhelm (Institut Curie) Magnetic tissue engineering

Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie) Shaping fluid lipid membranes with proteins and biological polymers

Camille Duprat (Ecole Polytechnique) Wetting of soft swellable materials

Thomas Hermans (Université de Strasbourg) Controlling self-assembly by chemical fuels and light

Anselmo Pereira (Mines Paristech) Impact of viscoplastic drops on solid and liquid surfaces