Ecole Thématique : INTERFACE / CNRS School : INTERFACE

This school contributes to federate of a community in bioelectronics, by showing researchers the full spectrum of technologies related to the discipline and its highly multidisciplinary character. Bioelectronics designs, produces and implements devices at the interface of electronics and the biological environment. It is the first link between the living and the electronic. Bioelectronics makes it possible to monitor living phenomena in real time and/or to continuously reproduce biological events in situ. It is a highly disciplinary field and calls upon several disciplinary fields and scientific communities (biology, materials, adaptable microelectronics, electronic systems, flexible architectures, information processing). These devices need to be adapted to the targeted applications (in-vitro in-vivo) as well as to the types of cells and biological and physiological phenomena involved. Some examples are: phenotype differentiation, cancer or cell evolution, recording of electrical activities of cells (cardiomyocyte, neurons, etc.) or reproduction of model structures to study a healthy or pathological target physiological structure.