We are theorists and experimentalists working at the interface of physics, chemistry, biology and computer science. Our research focuses on soft matter (colloids, polymers, liquid crystals, granular matter, thin sheets...), active matter (self-propelled colloids, swimming droplets, walking grains, swarms of robots... ) and molecular systems (DNA, RNA, enzymes...). We study various aspects of these systems such as topology, self-assembly, interfaces, information processing, evolution..., while also developing general theoretical methods. The name Gulliver captures the diversity of scales that are studied in the lab.

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The IOP-SFP 2024 Holweck Prize awarded to Ludovic Berthier

Ludovic Berthier is Director of Research (DRCE) at CNRS. After a post-doctorate at Oxford University (2001-2004), he joined the CNRS Charles (...)


Gulliver member Joshua D. McGraw (CR CNRS) is...

Gulliver member Joshua D. McGraw (CR CNRS) is among 20 French researchers to be awarded a 2024 Horizon Europe Consolidator Grant. During the (...)


The Gulliver lab has joined Institut de...

The Gulliver lab has joined Institut de Physique as a second Institut principal together with Institut de Chimie. This is a nice recognition of (...)


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Publications

Crystal structures of monomeric BsmI restriction endonuclease reveal coordinated sequential cleavage of two DNA strands

BsmI, a thermophilic Type IIS restriction endonuclease from Bacillus stearothermophilus, presents a unique structural composition, housing two... (...)


Stationary and transient correlations in driven electrolytes

Particle–particle correlation functions in ionic systems control many of their macroscopic properties. In this work, we use stochastic density... (...)


Harnessing DNA computing and nanopore decoding for practical applications: from informatics to microRNA-targeting diagnostics

DNA computing represents a subfield of molecular computing with the potential to become a significant area of next-generation computation due to... (...)


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