Your project of experiment with PRIMO

“The team is studying the recruitment mechanisms of white blood during an immune response. The complex orchestration of white blood cells traffic between blood/lymph systems, lymph nodes and inflammation zones relies on sophisticated but still poorly understood signaling routes that guide cells toward precise targets.
Our aim is to develop in vitro experimentation to decipher guiding mechanisms involved in vivo. »

PRIMO technology is particularly adapted to design in vitro microdevices patterned with controlled patches of the signaling proteins relevant for white blood cell migration.

lymphocytes-adhesion-strips
Primary human T lymphocytes on specific adhesion strips.

Why PRIMO

« We previously used PDMS microstamping but the amount of deposited proteins was uncontrolled and we had difficulties to print gradients.
We chose to use PRIMO because it allows to print gradients as well as a combination of several proteins »

Little extra which makes all the difference

Performances :

The optical printing system of PRIMO is highly performant and user-friendly. The best is still to come.

Support provided by Alvéole team:

Totally satisfying”

« My interest is to understand the role of biophysical and topological properties of tissue microenvironments, such as stem cell niches, in modulating cell fate. Thus, the ability to precisely tune and control extracellular cell/organelle shape and geometry in 2D and 3D, is of critical importance. PRIMO has been incredibly useful in this regard! »

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« The main interest of the Tardieux’s laboratory and my PhD project is to decipher how forces drive the unique motile and invasive capacities of the single-celled eukaryotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii. I was able to uncover that the parasite glides by coupling polar adhesions and de-adhesion with traction and dragging forces. The PRIMO technique was needed to create composite patterns with a non-adhesive area next to an adhesive one with the crucial request of a sharp demarcation. »

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« We are working on the generation of 3D cellular microenvironments to reproduce Hematopoietic Niches. PRIMO will be used to generate 3D photo-polymerized microenvironments and to pattern them to localize different cell populations involved in the hematopoiesis. »

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« We are interested in imaging subcellular localization of certain cell-surface receptors and check whether they colocalize with focal-adhesion complexes. For this purpose, we are interested in making different types of patterns of Fibronectin with subcellular dimensions. »

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« My research project aims at unravelling how a T cell switches from a fast migratory state to a stationary state upon activation. To do so, I perform live cell imaging of T cells migrating inside micro-fabricated channels coated with activating molecules. However, with this approach, I do not control when and where a T cell encounters the activating molecules. »

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« Protein micropatterning represents an excellent tool to probe the behavior and functions of cellular systems. PRIMO is specially suited for our experiments, in which the cell-substrate interaction needs to be precisely adjusted both throughout the substrates and in time, in order to control the dynamic behaviour of cell monolayers. »

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« Our research is at the frontier of soft matter physics and process engineering. More precisely, we develop microfluidic tools to study industrial processes (mixing, flow, drying, filtration, etc.) involving soft matter systems such as polymers or colloids. We use PRIMO to integrate hydrogel membranes in microfluidic devices to mimic ultrafiltration and dialysis processes on the scale of a few nanoliters. »

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Contrôler
le micro
environnement

Alvéole développe des outils innovants pour contrôler le microenvironnement sur les supports standards de culture cellulaire en 2D et 3D.

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Centre de ressources

Notre équipe vous livre toutes ses astuces pour mener à bien vos expériences et aller encore plus loin !

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Témoignages

Nos utilisateurs décrivent leurs projets de recherche et nous expliquent pourquoi ils ont choisi d’utiliser PRIMO !

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