Hi.
My name is Max Deforet.
I am a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire Jean Perrin, Sorbonne Université, in Paris (France).
I investigate physical processes in biological systems, with a strong focus on the role of spatial structure and the emergence of collective motility.
My experimental system of choice is swarming motility in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
I recently developed (preprint) a method for performing segmentation and tracking on moving objects.
I described how bacteria could alter their mechanical environment over long distances, through surfactant secretion.
Before, I explored the growth-dispersal interplay in invasive processes (including in cancer metastasis).
I worked on spatially-constrained collective cell migration, in various geometries (PhD project).
The list of my publications is available on Google Scholar and ORCID.