Citizenships: Polish and French

Scientific career:

From 2006: Joint MPI-CBG/PAN group leader

10.2005-12.2005: staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology

and Genetics, Dresden

2005: PhD in Biophysics, Institut Curie / University Paris 7, Paris, France. Research advisor:
Cécile Sykes; co-advisor: Michel Bornens.

2001: DEA (equivalent Masters) in Biophysics (“Interfaces Physique-Biologie”), University Paris
7 / Institut Curie, Paris, France.

2000: Agrégation in Physics., Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France

Invited seminars and talks at conferences:
24.03.2007 Workshop on Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Motility, Hannover Medical Park, Germany
14.02.2007 Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
10.11.2005 Workshop on Cell Motility and Cytoskeletal Dynamics, WPI Institute, Vienna, Austria
24.10.2006 University Otto-von-Guericke, Magdeburg, Germany
28.09.2006 Wolfgang Pauli Insitute, Vienna, Austria
03.08.2006 Gordon Research Conference, “Oscillations & Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems”, Oxford, UK
28.07.2006 Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK
21.04.2006 Biophysics Symposium, University of Göttingen, Germany
27.03.2006 German Physical Society (DPG) Meeting, Dresden, Germany
10.11.2005 Workshop on Cell Motility and Cytoskeletal Dynamics, WPI Institute, Vienna, Austria
08.09.2005 ELSO Meeting, Dresden, Germany
27.06.2005 Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
16.06.2005 University of Leipzig, Germany
07.04.2004 Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
01.03.2004 University of Grenoble, France

Selected publications:
• *Paluch E, Van der Gucht J, Sykes C. Cracking up: symmetry breaking in cellular systems. J Cell Biol., 2006, 175(5):687-92

• Paluch E, van der Gucht J, Joanny J-F, Sykes C. Deformations in actin comets from rocketing beads. Biophys J, 2006, 91: 3113-22

• Paluch E, Sykes C, Prost J, Bornens M. Dynamic modes of the cortical actomyosin gel during cell locomotion and division. Trends Cell Biol, 2006; 16:5-10

• Paluch E, Piel M, Prost J, Bornens M, Sykes C. Cortical actomyosin breakage triggers shape oscillation in cells and cell fragments, Biophys J, 2005; 89:724-33

• Gucht J, Paluch E, Plastino J, Sykes C. Stress release drives symmetry breaking for actin-based movement, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2005; 102:7847-52

*Papers marked with an asterisk have the IIMCB affiliation of the author