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Margot Riggi

joined in Oct 10, 2018

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Biochemistry Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.

Riggi has 2 breaks published.

Could our gut’s microbes be the guardians of our brain’s health?

In the same way as our genome contains the collection of all of our genes, we call microbiome the collection of microorganisms that have settled in our organism. Over the past decades, the gut microbiome, in particular, has been shown to affect our physical health:... click to read more

Margot Riggi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Biochemistry Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

microbiota

brain cells

gut

microglia cells

brain

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Oct 10, 2018

Tiny molecular probes reveal invisible forces inside cells

To function and survive, all cells need to sense and respond to invisible physical forces. Being able to detect and measure these forces is thus key to our understanding of life. Still, it remains one of the most complex problems facing current Science. In particular, biologists... click to read more

Margot Riggi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Biochemistry Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

#biophysics

chemical biology

biomembrane tension

molecular probe

Reading time 4 min

published on Jan 10, 2022