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MIT-France Seed Fund 2012-2013
Grant Recipients

From Frustrated Failure to Functionality: Tailoring Crack Paths By Geometrical and Localized Constraints
A collaboration between:

  • Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Daniel Bonamy, CEA Researcher, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  • Benoit Roman, Chargé de Rercherches, Ph.D., CEA-SACLAY (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique)

 

Genome in 3D: Fractal and Topological Properties of DNA Folding
A collaboration between:

  • Leonid Mirny, Associate Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
  • Serguei Nechaev, Dr., CNRS, University Paris-Sud

 

Investigating the Influence of Background Rotation and Complex Stratification on Arctic Internal Waves
A collaboration between:

  • Thomas Peacock, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Philippe Odier, Associate Professor, ENS de Lyon

 

Jets and Medium: Tomography of Quark-Gluon Plasma
A collaboration between:

  • Gunther Roland, Professor, Physics
  • Matteo Cacciari, Professeur des universites, Universite Paris 7
  • Gregory Soyez, CNRS Associate Scientist, CEA Saclay

 

Metabolic Pathway Engineering of Ralstonia Eutropha for Biofuel Production from Inexpensive Carbon Source
A collaboration between:

  • Anthony Sinskey, Professor, Biology
  • Christopher Brigham, Research Scientist, Biology
  • Stephane Guillouet, Associate Professor, INSA Toulouse
  • Nathalie Gorret, Research Scientist, INRA

 

Microfluidic Technologies to Created Gel Microbead Bioarrays
A collaboration between:

  • Patrick Doyle, Professor, Chemical Engineering
  • Charles Baroud, Professeur Chargé de Cours (Associate Professor), Ecole Polytechnique

 

Micro-Mechanical Modeling of Natural Granular Media
A collaboration between:

  • Ken Kamrin, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Franck Radjai, Directeur de Recherche 1iere Classe, CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) and University Montpellier 2
  • Jean-Yves Delenne, Directeur de Recherche 2ieme Classe, CNRS and INRA (Institut National de Recherche Agro-Alimentaire)

 

Nanofluidics and Nanomechanics of Plasmodium Falciparum Rosetting
A collaboration between:

  • Ming Dao, Principal Research Scientist, Materials Science and Engineering
  • Monica Diez-Silva, Research Scientist, Matierals Science and Engineering
  • Odile Mercereau-Puijalon, Director, Institut Pasteur
  • Inès Vigan-Womas, Dr Ingeneer, Institut Pasteur