Seminars

PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)

Contact :
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
responsables-seminaires (arobase) pmmh.espci.fr

PMMH
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France

Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22


Séminaire PMMH - Emmanuèle Helfer (CINAM, Marseille)

Vendredi 9 décembre 2022 de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1

Biomimicking red blood cell filtration by the spleen

Blood circulation in our vascular system is a physical tour de force. To distribute oxygen throughout the body, Red blood cells (RBCs) continuously travel through the microcirculation, through thin capillaries that are smaller than their size, and are thus highly deformable. Their deformability is periodically monitored by the spleen : when too rigid and unable to pass through the inter-endothelial splenic slits (IESs) of submicron width, RBCs are trapped in the spleen and destroyed. Today, due to lack of suitable in vitro devices and validated computational approaches, the mechanisms of RBC filtration by the IESs are still poorly understood. Here, by combining biomimicking experimental measurements and quantitative numerical simulations we elucidate the mechanisms of passage of RBCs through IESs.
We developed a microfluidic device containing high aspect ratio slits (2-µm long, 5-µm high, < 1-µm wide), reproducing the physiological dimensions of the IESs [1] and validated a numerical model of RBCs passing through splenic-like slits [2]. We couple these approaches to understand retention rates, transit times and cell deformations of RBCs squeezing in splenic-like slits as a function of external parameters (slit dimensions, pressure drop, temperature).

[1] P. Gambhire et al. Small 13, 1700967 (2017)
[2] H. Lu and Z. Peng. Physics of Fluids 31, 031902 (2019)


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Seminars  (4)

  • Séminaire PMMH - Francesca Borghi Università degli Studi di Milano
    Vendredi 20 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
    REPROGRAMMABLE HARDWARE FOR DATA PROCESSING AT THE EDGE : A NEW COMPUTING PARADIGM BASED ON NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS
    The brain's ability to perform efficient and fault-tolerant data processing is strongly related with its peculiar interconnected adaptive architecture, based on redundant neural circuits interacting at different scales. By emulating the brain's processing and learning mechanisms, computing technologies strive to (…)
  • Séminaire PMMH - Francesca Borghi Università degli Studi di Milano
    Vendredi 20 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
    REPROGRAMMABLE HARDWARE FOR DATA PROCESSING AT THE EDGE : A NEW COMPUTING PARADIGM BASED ON NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS
    The brain's ability to perform efficient and fault-tolerant data processing is strongly related with its peculiar interconnected adaptive architecture, based on redundant neural circuits interacting at different scales. By emulating the brain's processing and learning mechanisms, computing technologies strive to (…)
  • Séminaire PMMH - Salvatore Federico (University of Calgary, Canada)
    Vendredi 4 juillet de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
    Continuum Mechanics of Hydrated Fibre-Reinforced Soft Tissues
    Biological tissues can be represented as bi-phasic continua, with a porous solid phase saturated by an interstitial fluid and reinforced by collagen fibers. This lecture will give an overview of the modelling techniques for fibre-reinforced porous composite materials with statistical orientation of the fibers. Both (…)
  • Séminaire PMMH - Salvatore Federico (University of Calgary, Canada)
    Vendredi 4 juillet de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
    Continuum Mechanics of Hydrated Fibre-Reinforced Soft Tissues
    Biological tissues can be represented as bi-phasic continua, with a porous solid phase saturated by an interstitial fluid and reinforced by collagen fibers. This lecture will give an overview of the modelling techniques for fibre-reinforced porous composite materials with statistical orientation of the fibers. Both (…)

Information for the speakers

The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.

Link to cofee seminar (internal, every Thursday)


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Practical information

Laboratoire : 01 40 79 45 22
Directeur : Ramiro GODOY DIANA
Codirecteur : Laurent DUCHEMIN
Administratrice : Frédérique AUGER (01 40 79 45 22)
Gestionnaire : Claudette BAREZ (01 40 79 58 53)
Courriel : dir (arobase) pmmh.espci.fr