Thomas Boudou
Thomas Boudou is a CNRS researcher at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Physics in Grenoble. His research interests lie in understanding how cells interact with their environment, and how these interactions weigh on cellular processes. In particular, he is studying how the biochemical and mechanical properties of the microenvironment regulate cell adhesion, migration, differentiation and tissue formation. To this end, he is developing new approaches based on micro- and nanofabrication techniques to control and modulate the cell microenvironment. These engineered microsystems enable fundamental biological questions to be addressed (e.g. interactions extracellular matrix/growth factors, regulation of osteogenesis differentiation by material properties,...) as well as the development of new biomedical technologies (e.g. muscle on a chip, microcapsules for drug delivery,...). Recently, he has combined these microsystems with optogenetics to study the generation and propag ation of mechanical signals in tissue models.