Hi.
My name is Max Deforet.
I am a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire Jean Perrin, Sorbonne Université, in Paris (France).
(Before, I was a postdoc at MSKCC, New York)
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 described (preprint) how bacteria could alter their mechanical environment over long distances.
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.