Patricia Bassereau

A minimal system allowing tubulation with molecular motors pulling on giant liposomes.

Micropatterned "adherent/repellent" glass surfaces for studying the spreading kinetics of individual red blood cells onto protein-decorated substrates.

Mechanical tweezer action by self-tightening knots in surfactant nanotubes.

A new method for the reconstitution of membrane proteins into giant unilamellar vesicles.

Cooperative extraction of membrane nanotubes by molecular motors.

Synthesis and preliminary physical applications of a rhodamin-biotin phosphatidylethanolamine, an easy attainable lipid double probe.

Coalescence of membrane tethers: experiments, theory, and applications.

Role of curvature and phase transition in lipid sorting and fission of membrane tubules.

Membrane deformations induced by the matrix protein of vesicular stomatitis virus in a minimal system.

Vesicles surfing on a lipid bilayer: self-induced haptotactic motion.

Negative tension induced by lipid uptake.

Shiga toxin induces tubular membrane invaginations for its uptake into cells.

Coordination of Kinesin motors pulling on fluid membranes.

Intracellular transport: from physics to ... biology.

Biophysical approaches to protein-induced membrane deformations in trafficking.

COPI coat assembly occurs on liquid-disordered domains and the associated membrane deformations are limited by membrane tension.

Dynamic kinesin-1 clustering on microtubules due to mutually attractive interactions.

Curvature-driven lipid sorting needs proximity to a demixing point and is aided by proteins.

Lipid reorganization induced by Shiga toxin clustering on planar membranes.

Integrin reconstituted in GUVs: a biomimetic system to study initial steps of cell spreading.

ArfGAP1 generates an Arf1 gradient on continuous lipid membranes displaying flat and curved regions.

Mechanism of membrane nanotube formation by molecular motors.

Membrane curvature controls dynamin polymerization.

Actin dynamics drive membrane reorganization and scission in clathrin-independent endocytosis.

Division of labour in ESCRT complexes.

Lipid cosorting mediated by shiga toxin induced tubulation.

Curvature-driven lipid sorting in biomembranes.

Physics, biology and the right chemistry.

Mobility in geometrically confined membranes.

Lateral diffusion on tubular membranes: quantification of measurements bias.

Functional reconstitution of a voltage-gated potassium channel in giant unilamellar vesicles.

cAMP signaling by anthrax edema toxin induces transendothelial cell tunnels, which are resealed by MIM via Arp2/3-driven actin polymerization.

Nature of curvature coupling of amphiphysin with membranes depends on its bound density.

Membrane fission: curvature-sensitive proteins cut it both ways.

Filopodium retraction is controlled by adhesion to its tip.

Transcellular tunnel dynamics: Control of cellular dewetting by actomyosin contractility and I-BAR proteins.

Unexpected membrane dynamics unveiled by membrane nanotube extrusion.

How to get out: ssRNA enveloped viruses and membrane fission.

Detergent-mediated incorporation of transmembrane proteins in giant unilamellar vesicles with controlled physiological contents.

Filopodial retraction force is generated by cortical actin dynamics and controlled by reversible tethering at the tip.

Reshaping biological membranes in endocytosis: crossing the configurational space of membrane-protein interactions.

Bending "on the rocks"--a cocktail of biophysical modules to build endocytic pathways.

Membrane shape modulates transmembrane protein distribution.

Bending lipid membranes: experiments after W. Helfrich's model.

Shape matters in protein mobility within membranes.

Catch-bond behaviour facilitates membrane tubulation by non-processive myosin 1b.

The sense is in the fingertips: The distal end controls filopodial mechanics and dynamics in response to external stimuli.

Trapping and release of giant unilamellar vesicles in microfluidic wells.

BIN1/M-Amphiphysin2 induces clustering of phosphoinositides to recruit its downstream partner dynamin.

Endophilin-A2 functions in membrane scission in clathrin-independent endocytosis.

Celebrating Soft Matter's 10th anniversary: screening of the calcium-induced spontaneous curvature of lipid membranes.

When Physics Takes Over: BAR Proteins and Membrane Curvature.

Physical basis of some membrane shaping mechanisms.

How curvature-generating proteins build scaffolds on membrane nanotubes.

Friction Mediates Scission of Tubular Membranes Scaffolded by BAR Proteins.