2024-10-04: A new booking system is available (GRR) for all SMMiL-E facilities.
2024-10-01 We would like to congratulate our colleague Faruk Azam SHAIK for his new position in CNRS as Researcher. Congratulations Faruk !
2024-07-02 Ibtihal has won a poster price during the graduate summer school program, in ONCOLILLE. Congratulations Ibtihal !
2024-04-11 Dr Fabrice SONCIN is named DEPUTY DIRECTOR of SMMiL-E. Congratulations Fabrice !
2024-01-06 to 2024-01-16 4th International School on BioMEMS in ONCOLILLE and UTC.
2024-01-29&30 3rd Cancer cell on chip workshop at ONCOLILLE. Congress supported by the SFC. Organised by OncoLILLE and IEMN.
2023-12-11 Bahram AHMADIAN has defended his PhD thesis on 11th december 2023The title is : « Classification and modeling of cancer cells using their biophysical signature » supervised by Dr. Hua CAO, JUNIA and Dr. Mehmet Çagatay TARHAN. Congratulations Dr AHMADIAN !
2023-11-13 Welcome back to KURIU san !
2023-10-01 Welcome Ms. Hezili ! Ibtihal became our newest PhD student. She will work with Dr. F. SONCIN in the Vaisseaux team.
2023-10-25 & 26 Workshop LIMMS/IEMN
2023-08-20 Welcome to Yuka FRANCOIS ! She is our new administrative manager. Welcome among us !
2023-07-19 Sayonara Aki ! Farewell party for Aki KIUCHI. Aki found a permanent position in LEM UMR9221 in Villeneuve d’Ascq. Congratulations to Aki ! We’re going to miss you !
2023-07-13 Farewell party for Amira BOUSBAA.
2023-06-30 Farewell party for Celia LEZIER.
2023-06-09 Dr. JC GERBEDOEN became officially the safety assistant for SMMiL-E team.
2023-06-01 Welcome to Celia LEZIER for her intership. She will work with Dr C. TARHAN and Dr. F. SHAIK on the SMMiL-E Project.
2023-06-01 Dr F. SONCIN gave an invited Webminar entitled “Blood vessels-on-chip model of the vascular barrier” at the French Angiogenesis Society
2023-05-31 Sayonara Géraldine ! Dr. G. TELLIER is leaving SMMiL-E. We thank her for her help on the moving and for taking care of the L2 and biology facilities. We appreciate all the efforts on developing SMMiL-E. Live long and prosper, Géraldine. Farewell party was organized this day.
2023-05-10 Dr F. SONCIN gave an invited talk entitled “Vaisseaux sanguins-sur-puce pour de nouveaux modèles 3D de barrière vasculaire” at Journées du Cancéropole Nord-Ouest, Deauville
2023-04-01 Starting of IMMUNOMEMS project with Dana SIMIUC, employed by SATT NORD
2023-04-07 Cleanroom is open again for the first time since our moving in july 2022.
2023-02-20 Welcome to Amira BOUSBAA for her internship. She will work with Dr. F. SONCIN in the Vaisseaux team.
2023-02-13 to 2023-02-21 3rd International SMMIL-E School on BioMEMS
2022-12-16 Farewell party for Dr. Dana SIMIUC.
2022-12-05&06 LIMMS and IEMN are organizing a virtual Workshop
2022-11-21 Welcome to Ibtihal HEZILI for her M2 intership (until 12/16). She will work with Dr. F. SONCIN in the Vaisseaux team.
2022-11-09 Farewell party for Florence NATH, JUNIA Student.
2022-11-08 Welcome to KURIU Saturo, from Japan, for his internship ( 1 month)
2022-10-03: Dr F. SONCIN gave an invited talk entitled “Blood vessel-on-chip model of the vascular barrier” at the 1st International conference on Blood-Tissue Interfaces, Montpellier
2022-10-01 Welcome Alice M. Leroy Alice became our newest PhD student. She will work with Dr. F. SONCIN in the Vaisseaux team.
2022-07-19 Moving to ONCOLILLE: We are moving to recently built ONCOLILLE building. We thank IRCL and COL for creating us the best environment possible for the past 6 years.
2022-06-01 Welcome Dr. Rezard. Quentin has joined the CYTOMEMS project as a post-doctoral fellow. The lab would not be the same without you.
2022-05-20 Congratulations Dr. Rezard Quentin defended his thesis titled “High-throughput identification of circulating cancer cells using their biophysical signature” supervised by Pr. Fabricio Cleri and Dr. Cagatay Tarhan. Congratulations Dr. Rezard !
2022-05-02 Welcome Dr. Simiuc. Dana has joined the SMMiL-E as a post-doctoral fellow. She continues the work of Juliette with Dr. SONCIN.
2022-04-18 Farewell to Dr. Cholet ! Juliette is leaving us after over a year in the SMMiL-E team, LIMMS/CNRS-IIS. Wish you all the best Juliette !
2022-03-29 Published article Our work on blood vessel-on-chip, “Multi-layered human blood vessels-on-chip design using double viscous finger patterning”, was published at Biomedicines. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/10/4/797
2022-03-24 Dr. M.C.Tarhan, presented his work on “Biophysical analysis of single cells using MEMS” during the OncoLILLE seminar series.
2022-02-14 The SMMiL-E School: The 2nd International School on BioMEMS. The second SMMiL-E School was held online.
2022-01-26 Published article: Our work on pairing immunological cells, “Pairing cells of different sizes in a microfluidic device for immunological synapse monitoring”, was published at Lab on a Chip. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2022/LC/D1LC01156A
2022-01-12 CYTOMEMS kick-off meeting. Our new ANR project has officially started. The CYTOMEMS project has been built on the collaboration among LIMMS, MODAL, Junia and Asygn. We target developing a smart MEMS equipment performing high content biophysical characterization of cells in flow for their classification by statistical learning.
2021-12-13 Congratulations Dr. Delannoy. Elise defended her PhD studies. Congratulations Dr. Delannoy ! Wish you all the best in your bright future.
2021-12-12 Published article: Our review article “Fabricating Silicon Resonators for Analysing Biological Samples” was published at Micromachines, in the Special Issue Micro/Nano Fabrication for Life Sciences. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/12/12/1546.
2021-12-07 SMMiL-E evaluation day. We hosted colleagues from all over France and Tokyo for the SMMiL-E evaluation day.
2021-11-24 PhD defence @ 13 December 2021, the Amphitheatre of IEMN Ms. Delannoy has defended her thesis titled “Modèles de vaisseaux sanguins sur puce pour l’étude des fonctions de la barrière endothéliale” supervised by Dr. Fabrice Soncin and Dr. Dominique Collard.
2021-11-17 Presentation @ 9th conference of the French Angiogenesis Society Ms. Delannoy presented her work @ 9th conference of the French Angiogenesis Society. A special congratulations for receiving the best oral presentation award.
2021-11-09 Invited talk @ 38th Sensors Symposiumby Dr. M. C. Tarhan Dr. Tarhan gives a talk on “MEMS sensors for single-cell biophysical analysis” as an invited talk at 38th Sensors Symposium: https://www.sensorsymposium.org/Asian_collabo.php
2021-10-19 Presentations @MEMS’22 Two of SMMiL-E members are accepted to present their work @MEMS conference. Congratulations Quentin and Bahram.
2021-08-31 Farewell to Dr. Senez ! Dr. Senez is moving to CANTHER after 3 years in the SMMiL-E team, LIMMS/CNRS-IIS.
2021-08-30 Invited talk @ International Symposium on Upcoming Prominent ENgineering solutions (ISUPEN 2021) by Dr. M. C. Tarhan. Dr. Tarhan gives a talk on “Silicon actuators for biological applications” as an invited talk at International Symposium on Upcoming Prominent ENgineering solutions (ISUPEN 2021): http://international.jspe.or.jp/isupen2021/
2021-07-20 CYTOMEMS :Our next project on high-throughput biophysical characterisation of single cells has received an ANR PRCE grant. We will be working with Asygn.
2021-05-17 A new collaboration. We are collaborating with Hélène Castel, Samuel Meignan and Michel Salzet in a CNO project on glioblastoma.
2021-04-28 Invited talk @ IEEE NEMSby Dr. M. C. Tarhan Dr. Tarhan gives a talk on “Mechanosensing of biological samples with silicon-based microsystems” in the invited session on Micro-/Nanofluidic Devices and Systems at IEEE NEMS 2021: https://ieee-nems.org/2021/?page_id=541
2021-04-01: Our new director Pr. Dominique Collard is back to be the SMMiL-E director. Congratulations Pr. Collard !
2021-03-31 Sayonara Grégoire ! Dr. Perret is leaving SMMiL-E after 5 years of hard work. We appreciate all the efforts on building SMMiL-E. Live long and prosper, Grégoire… Or shall we say, may the force be with you!
2021-03-19 The SMMiL-E School: The first SMMiL-E School was held from Mar. 8th to Mar. 19th,2021. Online lectures due to the COVID-19 could not stop us to have a successful school with Japanese and French students.
2021-01-30 Presentations @MEMS’21 Three of SMMiL-E members have presented their work @MEMS conference. Congratulations Frédérick, Quentin and Vincent. A special congratulation to Vincent for being selected as the best student paper award.
2021-01-28: Congratulations Dr. De Miollis Frédérick defended his PhD studies. Congratulations Dr. De Miollis !
2021-01-04 Welcome Dr. Juliette Cholet, researcher on the Labcom project, and Ms. Aki KIUCHI, our new administrator, joined SMMiL-E. Welcome, Juliette and Aki…
2020-12-15 Sayonara… Dr. Deniz Pekin and Ms. Ayano Tanaka are leaving SMMiL-E. We wish them a successful future…
2020-11-25 Presentations @MEMS’21 Three of SMMiL-E members are accepted to present their work @MEMS conference. Congratulations Frédérick, Quentin, and Vincent.
2020-11-15 Bahram Ahmadian joining SMMiL-E Mr. Ahmadian is our new PhD student working with Dr. Tarhan. Welcome Bahram !
2020-11-13 Plenary talk @13th International Workshop on Impedance Spectroscopy on December 2-4. Dr. Senez has presented his work on “Monitoring organ on a chip with impedance spectroscopy: application to infection and cancer” as a plenary talk at 13th International Workshop on Impedance Spectroscopy: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/etit/messtech/iwis/plenary.php
2020-11-02 Open Finance Accounts Officer position position We are opening a 12 to 13-month Finance Accounts Officer position at SMMiL-E (LIMMS Lille lab). Information & application details are found here : https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMI2820-AYATAN-001/Default.aspx
2020-10-07 A CNRS prematuration program kick-off Developing a method for biophysical cell characterization is now supported by CNRS prematuration program. Congratulations, Dr. Dominique Collard.
2020-08-01 Open post-doctoral researcher position. A post-doctoral researcher position on a “vessel-on-chip” project within BioPharMEMS activities is open now. Information & application details are here: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMI2820-FABSON-001/Default.aspx
2020-07-15 Presentations @µTAS’20 Three SMMiL-E members will be presenting their work @µTAS conference. Congratulations Elise, Faruk and Quentin.
2020-06-02 Invited talk @ICRA on June 2nd by Dr. Collard and Dr. Tarhan Dr. Collard and Dr. Tarhan will be presenting an overview of the Silicon NanoTweezers studies as an invited talk at the Workshop on the applications of micro-nanorobotics taking place during the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) – https://teams.femto-st.fr/micro-and-nano-robotics/workshop-applications-micro-nanorobotics.
2020-05-19 SMMiL-E activities are resuming after the confinement period due to Covid-19. But we are still having on-line group meetings
2020-05-19 SMMIL-E website is just opening. News are coming soon
