User:Nicolas Borghi

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Nicolas Borghi (an artistic interpretation)

• Nicolas Borghi
• Nelson lab, Department of Biology.

The James H. Clark Center, The Bio-X Program, 318 Campus Drive (Room E200-B).

• Microsystems lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, 418 Panama Mall (Room 223).

• Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

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Education

• 2006, PhD in Physical-Chemistry/Soft Matter, Institut Curie/University P. & M. Curie, Paris, France.
• 2002, MS in Physics and Chemistry/Soft Matter, ESPCI/University P. & M. Curie, Paris, France.

Research interests

Biology and Physics of cell adhesion and tissue morphogenesis.

Publications

peer-reviewed

1. Borghi N, Lowndes M and Nelson WJ. Regulation of Cell Motility by Crosstalk between Integrin and Cadherin-Mediated Adhesion Complexes. Submitted.

2. Tabdanov E, Borghi N, Brochard-Wyart F, Dufour S, and Thiery JP. Role of E-cadherin in membrane-cortex interaction probed by nanotube extrusion. Biophys J. 2009 Mar 18;96(6):2457-65. DOI:10.1016/j.bpj.2008.11.059 |
3. Borghi N and Brochard-Wyart F. Tether extrusion from red blood cells: integral proteins unbinding from cytoskeleton. Biophys J. 2007 Aug 15;93(4):1369-79. DOI:10.1529/biophysj.106.087908 |

4. Borghi N, Kremer S, Askovic V and Brochard-Wyart F. Tube Extrusion from Permeabilized Giant Vesicles. Europhysics Letters 2006; 75 666-72. doi: 10.1209/epl/i2006-10142-5. IOP

5. Brochard-Wyart F, Borghi N, Cuvelier D, and Nassoy P. Hydrodynamic narrowing of tubes extruded from cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 16;103(20):7660-3. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0602012103 |
6. Brochard-Wyart F, Tanaka T, Borghi N, and de Gennes PG. Semiflexible polymers confined in soft tubes. Langmuir. 2005 Apr 26;21(9):4144-8. DOI:10.1021/la0474114 |
7. Borghi N, Alias K, de Gennes PG, and Brochard-Wyart F. Wetting fibers with liposomes. J Colloid Interface Sci. 2005 May 1;285(1):61-6. DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2004.11.030 |

8. Borghi N, Rossier O and Brochard-Wyart F. Hydrodynamic Extrusion of Tubes from Giant Vesicles. Europhysics Letters 2003; 64 837-43. doi: 10.1209/epl/i2003-00321-x. IOP

9. Rossier O, Cuvelier D, Borghi N, Puech PH, Derényi I, Buguin A, Nassoy P, and Brochard-Wyart F. Giant Vesicles under Flows: Extrusion and Retraction of Tubes. Langmuir 2003; 19(3) 575-84. doi: 10.1021/la026236t. ACS

10. Puech PH, Borghi N, Karatekin E, and Brochard-Wyart F. Line thermodynamics: adsorption at a membrane edge. Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Mar 28;90(12):128304. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.128304 |
11. Karatekin E, Sandre O, Guitouni H, Borghi N, Puech PH, and Brochard-Wyart F. Cascades of transient pores in giant vesicles: line tension and transport. Biophys J. 2003 Mar;84(3):1734-49. DOI:10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74981-9 |

reviews and proceedings

12. Borghi N and James Nelson W. Intercellular adhesion in morphogenesis: molecular and biophysical considerations. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2009;89:1-32. DOI:10.1016/S0070-2153(09)89001-7 |

13. Borghi N, Karatekin E, Derényi I and Brochard-Wyart F. Giant Vesicles: Transient Pores and Tube Extraction, in The Physics of Complex Systems, Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, Course CLV, F. Mallalace and H. E. Stanley (Eds.), IOS Press, Amsterdam 2004. IOS

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