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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) ‘The cytoplasm of living cells behaves as a poroelastic material’, Nature 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) ‘Emergence of homeostatic epithelial packing and stress dissipation through divisions oriented along the long cell axis’, PNAS 112 (18), 5726-5731.
- Wilson, K., Lewalle, A., Fritzsche, M., Thorogate, R., Duke, T., and Charras G. (2013) ‘Mechanisms of leading edge protrusion in interstitial migration’, Nature Communications 4, 2896.