Maxime Ardré Editor, podcast crew @ParisSeminar

Maxime Ardré is a physicist fascinated by bacteria. Their vast diversity, their colossal number and their involvement in many fundamental processes have triggered Maxime's curiosity since its PhD. He first started to study the formation of multicellular organization of bacteria called biofilm. Then he focused on the bacterial growth at small scales going from one single cell to a colony. Now permanent researcher at the laboratoire Biophysique et Evolution in the ESPCI Paris, he explores bacterial interaction by means of the microfluidic technology. This span from revealing the single-cell response to stress, to unveiling interactions occurring within bacterial populations. Maxime's drive for such fundamental study is speared by the foreseen contingency of global antimicrobial resistance. 

Elisa Garabello Editor, podcast crew @egarabs

Elisa dived into Biophysics during her Master in Physics of Complex System at the University of Torino. Under the supervision of Michele Caselle and Antonio Scialdone she completed a thesis on the application of topic modeling algorithms to mice spatial transcriptomics data. For her PhD, she decided to transition to study microbial communities and joined Andrea Giometto lab at Cornell University. Combining synthetic biology experiments and quantitative models, she is currently working on the evolutionary dynamics of conjugative transfer in Escherichia coli.

Marco Mauri Founder, Admin @MarcoMauri81

Marco is mainly interested in Theoretical Biophysics of bacteria and in Modelling of Ecological systems.  

After a MSc in Particle Physics at the University of Milano Bicocca and ETH Zurich, he moved to the Max Planck Institute of  Colloids and Interfaces for a PhD in Theoretical Biophysics in the group of Stefan Klumpp. Next, he did Postdocs at the SYNMIKRO Marburg in Synthetic Biology with Georg Fritz, at the INRIA Grenoble in Ecology with Hidde de Jong, and at TIMC in Biomimetic Systems with Don Martin. Currently, he works on Biophysical Modelling in the group of Rosalind Allen at The University of Edinburgh and Jena University.

He loves travelling, learning languages, reading, photography, music, and as any Italian, cooking!

Avaneesh Narla Editor, podcast crew @AvaneeshNarla

Avaneesh is interested in how many individuals interact to produce emergent phenomena. He is currently exploring how populations of organisms spread in novel habitats, and how many microbial species can coexist in constantly-changing environments. 

Leonardo Pacciani-Mori Editor, @LeoPaccianiMori

Leonardo is a theoretical physicist by training, but he's always been interested in biophysics. During his PhD at the University of Padua, under the supervision of Amos Maritan, while working with consumer-resource models he realized he wanted to turn to the dark side and learn how to do experiments. After a short period at Harvard University under the supervision of Andrea Giometto, he moved to UC San Diego in the group of Terry Hwa to work as a postdoc at the interface of microbial physiology and ecology.

When not in the office or the lab, he is most likely playing the guitar, cooking, or walking his dog.

Pintu Patra Editor @pintupatra05

Pintu is a theoretical physicist with a passion for understanding the collective dynamics of biological systems. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Biophysics from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University. Currently, he is working on several intriguing problems related to the migration of malaria parasites and the progression of malaria infection in red blood cells. He also runs twitter a group “Collective Dynamics of Living Systems”. 

Clark Templeton Editor, podcast founder @pbrun03

Clark is a chemical engineer by training who stumbled into biophysics. During the course of his studies he studied the influence of counterions on nucleic acid conformations and now primarily works in AI on developing coarse-grained molecular forcefields. It is often a frustrating but always fascinating blend of computational and thermodynamic analysis. 

 When not in front of a keyboard he enjoys spending his time running, reading the latest sci-fi novels, or pestering his neighbors as he tries to learn the viola. 

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