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Institute for the Physics of Living Systems

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Prof Guillaume Charras

Prof. Guillaume Charras

Short CV

1998 MSc Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, USA; 2002 PhD UCL; 2003-2007 Post-doc: Harvard Medical School, USA. 2007-2013: University Research fellow, LCN. 2013-2016: Reader. 2016: Professor in Cell and Tissue Biophysics.

Research interests

Guillaume is interested in understanding how the cytoskeleton governs cell and tissue mechanics and how biochemical signalling controls changes in mechanics to lead to morphogenesis.

Key publications

  • Moeendarbary, E., Valon, L., Fritzsche, M., Harris, A. R., Moulding, D. A., Thrasher, A. J., Stride, E., Mahadevan, L. and Charras, G. T. (2013) ‘’,ÌýNature Materials 12 (3), 253-261.
  • Wyatt, T. P., Harris, A. R., Lam, M., Cheng, Q., Bellis, J., Dimitracopoulos, A., Kabla, A. J., Charras, G. T. and Baum, B. (2015) ‘’,ÌýPNAS 112 (18), 5726-5731.
  • Wilson, K., Lewalle, A., Fritzsche, M., Thorogate, R., Duke, T., and Charras G. (2013) ‘’,ÌýNature Communications 4, 2896.