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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">We are pleased to invite you to a seminar by
</span><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Assoc.
<span style="color:#111111">Prof. Felix Rico from </span>Aix-Marseille University<span style="color:#111111">, taking place on April 4th at 10:30 in Spectrum 2. The details of the talk are provided below.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Later that day, Prof. Rico will also participate in the final defence of Massimiliano Berardi, which will take place at 13:45 in Aula VU, and you
are warmly invited to attend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Seminar details:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Speaker:</span></b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111"> Assoc. Prof. Felix Rico (Aix-Marseille
University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Date & Time:</span></b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111"> April 4th, 10:30-11:30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Location:</span></b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111"> Spectrum 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Title:</span></b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">
</span><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Viscoelastic mapping of living cells<span style="color:#111111"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Abstract:</span></b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">
</span><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Cells are heterogeneous systems with viscoelastic properties depending on the composition and organization of the cytoskeleton. This mechanical heterogeneity across the cell
body makes quantification difficult. I this talk I will describe our approach to map the viscoelasticity of cells and its correlation with other microscopies (polarization, traction force...). I will detail sample preparation to allow averaging of mechanical
maps,</span><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I will discuss two examples: normal and malignant cancer cells, and resting monocytes
and differentiated into macrophages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Short Bio:</span></b><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> Felix Rico is Associate Professor in the department of Physics of Aix-Marseille
University since 2013. His research in the field of force microscopy is developed at the LAI U1067, a joined Aix-Marseille University, CNRS & Inserm laboratory. He studied Physics at the University Autonoma of Barcelona and received his PhD in Biophysics from
the University of Barcelona. Before moving to Marseille, he was postdoc at the University of Miami (FL) and then at Institut Curie (Paris). He has been working in force measurements with atomic force microscopy (AFM) since 2001. His </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">research
track is focused on the mechanics and adhesion properties of biological systems. He has developed various AFM based approaches to investigate the mechanical response of single molecules, membranes and cells. Recently, he adapted high speed AFM (HS-AFM) to
work as a force spectroscopy tool, probing the mechanics and dynamics of single biomolecules and living cells at the microsecond timescales.</span><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">We look forward to seeing you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="en-NL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111">Imran Avci<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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