Soutenance HDR Clément Nizak

14 juin 2016 14:00 » 17:00 — A1 (Urbain)

Physics-inspired experimental evolution and immune repertoire analysis

Can we understand apparently extremely complex biological systems and their evolution by describing them as being constituted of many elementary units that interact, or do not interact ? Can we reduce those interactions to pairwise terms ? Driven by this perspective inspired by statistical physics, I have conducted experimental approaches at different scales to study social microbe populations, immune repertoire selection, protein evolution. I have also implemented the reverse scheme, taking advantage of biological techniques and concepts for applications in physical chemistry and materials science.

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