Antoine ALLARD

I am Maître de Conférences in the Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine (LOMA) at University of Bordeaux, France. I am a member of the Soft Matter and Biophysics Team, Mecanogenetics of Cells and Tissues Group.

I obtained a PhD in Physics from Université Paris-Saclay, studying on the role of actin cytoskeleton on lipid membrane nanotubes. This work was developed in collaboration with Clément Campillo in Laboratoire Analyse, Modélisation, Matériaux pour la Biologie et l’Environnement (LAMBE), in Évry and with Cécile Sykes in Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie (PCC), Curie Institute, in Paris. This work is freely available online.

For this work, I have been awarded two PhD prices:

• C’Nano 2020, in the Interdisciplinary category (interview here)
• Groupe d’Études des Membranes (GEM 2021)

I then joined Marco Polin‘s group at the Physics Department at University of Warwick, in England, where I worked on understanding how the model swimming organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a biflagellated microalgae, responds to light stimulus.

My current research interests, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary network, are focused on the understanding of photosynthesis adaptation to environmental cues, such as complex mechenical and/or light environments. I currently teach undergraduate courses in Physics, and “teaching degree” courses.