The MTB summer school will be a highly interdisciplinary school during which students, with various backgrounds, will acquire both experimental and theoretical skills and knowledge to investigate and link MTB diversity, motility and magnetic behavior. Students will first become proficient in sampling MTB from the environment and in manipulating laboratory MTB to fluorescently tag them. Next, they will learn how to assemble OpenFlexure microscopes equipped with magnetic coils. The later, combined with the use of custom-made microfluidics, will be used to sort the environmental collected bacteria but also the laboratory MTB based on their magnetotactic and hydronamic properties and to record their swimming behaviors. Next, the students will gain knowledge in coding in order to track and analyze bacterial swimming behaviors. In parallel, they will also learn how to simulate bacterial swimming motility and will therefore be able to compare experimental and simulated data. The practicals will be completed with lectures on bacterial motility, magneto-hydrodynamics, magnetosome synthesis, MTB chemotaxis and nanoparticule synthesis and functionalization. Altogether, the MTB summer school will allow students to master and link diverse experimental and theoretical methods and technics and to appreciate the strength of interdisciplinary approaches to investigate MTB.

The school will take place in Marseille, in the Luminy campus of Aix-Marseille University (AMU).

We hope to see you there!

If you would like to sign up for the school, you are kindly asked to register and submit your research interests.Thanks!

Registration and research interests submission are open until 10^th June 2025.