J'ACTIVE: a WE-HERAEUS Workshop in Honour of Jacques Prost's Scientific Contributions

Workshop
March 8, 2026 - March 13, 2026
The workshop will cover the fields of active & living matter and their applications to fundamental problems in biology. It will outline a set of common tools and concepts to understand: (1) Collective flows - including microswimmers, flocking behavior, active gels (2) Biological materials - including molecular motors and the cytoskeleton, protein- membrane interactions, dynamics of living tissues in cancer and development
This session is organized by:
Patricia BASSEREAU, CNRS, Institut Curie, Paris, France
Giovanni CAPPELLO, CNRS, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, St. Martin d’Hères, France
Frank JULICHER, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Pascal MARTIN, CNRS, Institut Curie, Paris, France
Jean-François RUPPRECHT, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Virgile VIASNOFF, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France

More information can be found on the session's website.
Published on  September 22, 2025
Updated on  September 22, 2025