2026

1   Pulsatile dynamics propagate crystalline order in the developing Drosophila eye
 Lydie Couturier, Juan Luna-Escalante, Khallil Mazouni, Claire Mestdagh, Minh-Son Phan, Jean-Yves Tinevez, François Schweisguth, Francis Corson
2026 - Developmental Cell
2   Fibronectin matrix remodelling modulates the active nematic dynamics of cancer-associated fibroblasts
 Cécile Jacques, Louisiane Perrin, Joseph Ackermann, Samuel Bell, Olivier Zajac, Ambre Lapierre, Lucas Anger, Clément Hallopeau, Carlos Pérez-González, Lakshmi Balasubramaniam, Xavier Trepat, Benoît Ladoux, Ananyo Maitra, Raphael Voituriez, Danijela Matic Vignjevic
2026 - Nature Materials
3   Theory of temporal pattern learning in echo state networks
 Vincent Hakim, Alain Karma
2026 - PNAS Nexus
4   Unveiling scaling laws for wrinkling in compressed fiber-reinforced bilayers at any elastic mismatch
 Andrea Mirandola, Angelo R Carotenuto, Arsenio Cutolo, Stefania Palumbo, Massimiliano Fraldi, Luca Deseri
2026 - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
5   Stochastic analysis of tumor microenvironment dynamics: Interplay between cytotoxic T-cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts
 Abdelaziz Ben Lahbib, Lahcen Azrar, Martine Ben Amar
2026 - The European Physical Journal Plus
6   Active filament dynamics model for the locomotion of C. elegans and soft microrobots
 Wenrun Hu, Martine Ben Amar, Weidong Yang, Ting Wang, Fan Xu
2026 - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
7   Self-organised structures in mixed active–passive suspensions due to hydrodynamic interactions
 Alexander Chamolly, Takuji Ishikawa
2026 - Journal of Fluid Mechanics
8   Adhesion forces between macrophages and cancer cells promote early tumor development
 Jovan Nikolic, Joseph Ackermann, Ines Marin, Sarah Taheraly, Morgane Mabire, François-Xavier Gobert, Mathieu Maurin, Apolline de Testas de Folmont, Ouardia Aït-Mohamed, Edison Gerena, Sophie Goyard, Jérémy Mesple, Hélène Salmon, Thierry Rose, Christine Moussion, Martine Ben Amar, Jean-François Joanny, Philippe Benaroch
2026 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
9   Uncovering Social Network Activity Using Joint User and Topic Interaction
 Gaspard Abel, Argyris Kalogeratos, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Julien Randon-Furling
2026 - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
10   Manifold Learning for Olfactory Habituation to Strongly Fluctuating Backgrounds
 François Bourassa, Paul François, Gautam Reddy, Massimo Vergassola
2026 - PRX Life
11   Fast Decisions with Biophysically Constrained Gene Promoter Architectures
 Tarek Tohme, Massimo Vergassola, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M Walczak
2026 - PRX Life

2025

12   Category learning in deep neural networks: Information content and geometry of internal representations
 Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot, Jean-Pierre Nadal
2025 - Physical Review E
13   Comparison of machine learning and human prediction to identify trauma patients in need of hemorrhage control resuscitation (ShockMatrix study): a prospective observational study
 Tobias Gauss, Arthur James, Clelia Colas, Nathalie Delhaye, Mathilde Holleville, Benjamin Bijok, Marie Werner, Alain Meyer, Véronique Ramonda, Eric Cesareo, Hugues de Cherisey, Sofiane Medjkoune, Samia Salah, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Jean-Denis Moyer, Antoine Vilotitch, Pierre Bouzat, Julie Josse
2025 - The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
14   Elimination of cells with local mismatch in differentiation timing contributes to synchronize tissue development
 Maleaume Soulard, Diego Andrés Contreras, Bruno Monier, Thomas Mangeat, Vanessa Dougados, Jennifer Zanet, Francis Corson, Vincent Hakim, François Payre, Anne Pélissier-Monier
2025 - iScience
15   The mechanism of nesprin-2 accumulation at the nucleus front during confined cell migration
 Inge Bos, Sirine Amiri, Virginie Maire, Thierry Dubois, Alain Karma, Vincent Hakim, Cécile Sykes
2025 - Biophysical Journal
16   From the perceptron to the cerebellum
 Nicolas Brunel, Vincent Hakim, Jean-Pierre Nadal
2025 - Comptes Rendus. Physique
17   Modeling collective behavior in groups of mice housed under semi-naturalistic conditions
 Xiaowen Chen, Maciej Winiarksi, Alicja Puścian, Ewelina Knapska, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra Walczak
2025 - eLife
18   Mechanistic insight for T-cell exclusion by cancer-associated fibroblasts in human lung cancer
 Joseph Ackermann, Chiara Bernard, Philemon Sirven, Helene Salmon, Massimiliano Fraldi, Martine D Ben Amar
2025 - eLife
19   A tension-induced morphological transition shapes the avian extra-embryonic territory
 Arthur Michaut, Alexander Chamolly, Aurélien Villedieu, Francis Corson, Jérôme Gros
2025 - Current Biology
20   Random Compressed Coding with Neurons
 Simone Blanco Malerba, Mirko Pieropan, Yoram Burak, Rava Azeredo da Silveira
2025 - Cell Reports
21   La vie et l’œuvre de Gérard Toulouse
 Bernard Derrida, Marc Mézard, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Yves Pomeau
2025 - Comptes Rendus. Physique
22   Ordering spontaneous flows and aging in active fluids depositing tracks
 Samuel Bell, Joseph Ackermann, Ananyo Maitra, Raphael Voituriez
2025 - Physical Review E
23   Fixational eye movements as active sensation for high visual acuity
 Trang-Anh Nghiem, Oscar Dufour, Jenny Reiniger, Wolf Harmening, Rava Azeredo da Silveira
2025 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
24   Stepwise molecular specification of excitatory synapse diversity onto cerebellar Purkinje cells
 Maëla A Paul, Séverine M Sigoillot, Léa Marti, Francisco J Urra Quiroz, Marine Delagrange, Hiu Cheung, David C Martinelli, Elie Oriol, Vincent Hakim, Philippe Mailly, Fekrije Selimi
2025 - Nature Neuroscience

2024

25   Continuous Quasi-Attractors dissolve with too much – or too little – variability
 Francesca Schönsberg, Rémi Monasson, Alessandro Treves
2024 - PNAS Nexus
26   Physical forces drive C. elegans embryonic deformation
 Ting Wang, Martine Ben Amar
2024 - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
27   An indentation method to determine the constitutive parameters of hyperelastic films under large deformation: Theoretical model, experiments and simulations
 Haoyuan Che, Martine Ben Amar, Wei Zhu, Shengjun Fan, Jinsong Leng, Fei Jia, Yanju Liu
2024 - International Journal of Solids and Structures
28   Proposition de corrigé de l'épreuve de physique C du concours ENS PC 2024
 Félix Werner, Lionel Foret
2024 - -OTHER-
29   Inverse blebs operate as hydraulic pumps during mouse blastocyst formation
 Markus F Schliffka, Julien G Dumortier, Diane Pelzer, Arghyadip Mukherjee, Jean-Léon Maître
2024 - Nature Cell Biology
30   Self-organized tissue mechanics underlie embryonic regulation
 Paolo Caldarelli, Alexander Chamolly, Aurélien Villedieu, Olinda Alegria-Prévot, Carole Phan, Jerome Gros, Francis Corson
2024 - Nature
31   Chemo-Mechanical Modeling of G-Proteins Activation-Induced Remodeling of Lipidic Membranes
 Chiara Bernard, Angelo Rosario Carotenuto, Nicola Maria Pugno, Luca Deseri, Massimiliano Fraldi
2024 -
32   Mechanical Principles of Caterpillar Locomotion: Implications for Soft Robot Design
 Mario Argenziano, Arsenio Cutolo, Massimiliano Zingales, Massimiliano Fraldi
2024 -
33   [∼Re] Exploration in Model-based Reinforcement Learning by Empirically Estimating Learning Progress
 Augustin Chartouny, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Mehdi Khamassi
2024 - The ReScience journal
34   Paper Sheet: a Paradigm of Nonlocal Thin Bodies
 Riccardo Cavuoto, Arsenio Cutolo, Luca Deseri, Massimiliano Fraldi
2024 -
35   A Fresh Angle to Approach the Dynamics of Masonry Wall–Like Structures
 Mario Argenziano, Enrico Babilio, Yoshiki Ikeda, Massimiliano Fraldi
2024 -
36   Local-to-Nonlocal Transition Laws: Mass Conservation for Stiffness-Tuneable Weakly Nonlinear Monoatomic Chains
 Flavia Guarracino, Massimiliano Fraldi, Nicola Pugno
2024 -
37   The Sphericity Paradox and the Role of Hoop Stresses in Free Subduction on a Sphere
 Stéphanie Chaillat, Gianluca Gerardi, Yida Li, Alexander Chamolly, Zhong‐hai Li, Neil M. Ribe
2024 - Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth
38   A two-dimensional vertex model for curvy cell-cell interfaces at the subcellular scale
 Kyungeun Kim, J M Schwarz, Martine Ben Amar
2024 - Journal of the Royal Society Interface
39   Long-wavelength traveling waves of vasomotion modulate the perfusion of cortex
 Thomas Broggini, Jacob Duckworth, Xiang Ji, Rui Liu, Xinyue Xia, Philipp Mächler, Iftach Shaked, Leon Paul Munting, Satish Iyengar, Michael Kotlikoff, Susanne van Veluw, Massimo Vergassola, Gal Mishne, David Kleinfeld
2024 - Neuron
40   Cyclic muscle contractions reinforce the actomyosin motors and mediate the full elongation of C. elegans embryo
 Anna Dai, Martine Ben Amar
2024 - eLife
41   Uncovering multiscale structure in the variability of larval zebrafish navigation
 Gautam Sridhar, Massimo Vergassola, João C Marques, Michael B Orger, Antonio Carlos Costa, Claire Wyart
2024 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
42   Giant organelle vesicles to uncover intracellular membrane mechanics and plasticity
 Alexandre Santinho, Maxime Carpentier, Julio Lopes Sampaio, Mohyeddine Omrane, Abdou Rachid Thiam
2024 - Nature Communications
43   Modelling lipid rafts formation through chemo-mechanical interplay triggered by receptor–ligand binding
 Chiara Bernard, Angelo Rosario Carotenuto, Nicola Maria Pugno, Massimiliano Fraldi, Luca Deseri
2024 - Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
44   Perilipin membrane integration determines lipid droplet heterogeneity in differentiating adipocytes
 Mario Majchrzak, Ozren Stojanović, Dalila Ajjaji, Kalthoum Ben M'Barek, Mohyeddine Omrane, Abdou Rachid Thiam, Robin Klemm
2024 - Cell Reports
45   Olfactory cues and memories in animal navigation
 Thierry Emonet, Massimo Vergassola
2024 - Nature Reviews Physics
46   Reconstitution of ORP-mediated lipid exchange coupled to PI4P metabolism
 Nicolas Fuggetta, Nicola Rigolli, Maud Magdeleine, Amazigh Hamaï, Agnese Seminara, Guillaume Drin
2024 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
47   Resource-rational account of sequential effects in human prediction
 Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Florent Meyniel, Rava Azeredo da Silveira
2024 - eLife
48   Sticky issues in turbulent transport
 Antonio Celani, Gautam Reddy, Massimo Vergassola
2024 - Annales Henri Poincaré

2023

49   Information theoretic study of the neural geometry induced by category learning
 Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot, Jean-Pierre Nadal
2023 -
50   Optimal policies for Bayesian olfactory search in turbulent flows
 R A Heinonen, L Biferale, A Celani, Massimo Vergassola
2023 - Physical Review E