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Research experience
| 2016 | Group leader at Institut Curie (Paris, France) in the Genetics and Developmental Biology unit CNRS UMR3215, INSERM U934 |
| 2013 - 2016 |
Postdoc fellow in the lab of Dr Hiiragi at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany) studying the mechanics of pre-implantation mouse embryos. |
| 2007 - 2012 |
PhD student in the lab of Prof Heisenberg at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics (Dresden, Germany) and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (Klosterneuburg, Austria) studying the mechanics of zebrafish germ layer progenitors. |
Funding and awards
| 2018 | Fondation Schlumberger pour la Recherche et l'Éducation |
| 2017 | ERC Starting Grant |
| 2017 | Young scientist award Societe de Biologie Cellulaire de France |
| 2016 |
ATIP-Avenir |
| 2016 |
PSL nouvelle équipe |
| 2014 |
Marie Curie IntraEuropean Fellowship |
| 2013 |
EMBO Long Term Fellowship |
Publications clés
Année de publication : 2019
Julien G Dumortier, Mathieu Le Verge-Serandour, Anna Francesca Tortorelli, Annette Mielke, Ludmilla de Plater, Hervé Turlier, Jean-Léon Maître (2019 Aug 3)
Hydraulic fracturing and active coarsening position the lumen of the mouse blastocyst.
Science (New York, N.Y.) : 465-468 : DOI : 10.1126/science.aaw7709Année de publication : 2016
Jean-Léon Maître, Hervé Turlier, Rukshala Illukkumbura, Björn Eismann, Ritsuya Niwayama, François Nédélec, Takashi Hiiragi (2016 Aug 4)
Asymmetric division of contractile domains couples cell positioning and fate specification.
Nature : DOI : 10.1038/nature18958Année de publication : 2015
Jean-Léon Maître, Ritsuya Niwayama, Hervé Turlier, François Nédélec, Takashi Hiiragi (2015 Jun 16)
Pulsatile cell-autonomous contractility drives compaction in the mouse embryo.
Nature cell biology : 849-55 : DOI : 10.1038/ncb3185Année de publication : 2013
Jean-Léon Maître, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (2013 Jul 27)
Three functions of cadherins in cell adhesion.
Current biology : CB : R626-33 : DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2013.06.019Année de publication : 2012
Jean-Léon Maître, Hélène Berthoumieux, Simon Frederik Gabriel Krens, Guillaume Salbreux, Frank Jülicher, Ewa Paluch, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (2012 Aug 28)