Renaud Poincloux

Renaud Poincloux is a cell biologist working as a team leader at the IPBS, Toulouse. He obtained his PhD in cell biology at the University of Toulouse in 2006. His thesis work focused on podosome formation and characterization of macrophage migration in three-dimensional environments. He then joined Philippe Chavrier’s laboratory at the Institut Curie for two years, where he worked on the mechanisms involved in the formation of cancer cell invadopodia and on the mechanisms used by breast cancer cells to invade 3D matrices. In 2008, he was recruited as a permanent research engineer by the CNRS to develop new imaging approaches dedicated to solving cell biology problems. Recently, his lab designed original methods to evaluate the protrusion forces developed by macrophages and started investigating the molecular mechanisms of protrusion force generation.