A scientific team from Grenoble, involving the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de physique (LIPhy - CNRS/UGA) and the Centre Inria de l'UGA, has developed a groundbreaking computational model that reveals universal laws governing how creatures swim across vastly different sizes and environments — from microscopic bacteria to massive blue whales.

Cyanobacteria have an internal biological clock that rhythms their activities on a 24-hour cycle. Thanks to this finely regulated mechanism, these micro-organisms are able to anticipate day/night cycles. A study recently published in Scientific Reports looked at how this clock reacts when the temperature drops below 25°C, an important threshold for their physiology.

Cyril Picard, teacher-researcher at LIPhy, was on science journalist Adrien Denèle's Twitch channel @Ylizur to explain how energy can be harvested by mixing fresh and salt water.

In a recent work, researchers show that particles entrained in a flow close to a deformable wall undergo a force that moves them slightly away from it, an important result for the general understanding of transport phenomena in biology.

The 2025 Academic Thesis Prize of Université Grenoble Alpes has been awarded to Laura Guislain for her thesis entitled “Characterisation of out-of-equilibrium phase transitions with the emergence of limit cycles”, carried out at LIPhy and supervised by Eric Bertin.

Damien Toquer (ENS Paris)

Nina JAVERZAT​ (PostDoc, PSM) || Ettore BERTOLINI​ (PhD, OPTIMA)

Tristan Jocteur (PSM, LIPhy)

Ariel Surya Boiardi (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

Mathieu Sellier (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Hélène de Maleprade and Francesco Picella (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Paris)