Research Areas: Experimental biological physics. Synthetic biology, systems biology. In vivo and in vitro gene expression, artificial cell, cell motility and actin cytoskeleton.
Philip Ball, Artificial cells take shape. Bacterium-sized 'protein factories' are a step along the road to synthetic life., Nature
V. Noireaux and Albert Libchaber, A Vesicle Bioreactor as a Step Toward an Artificial Cell Assembly, PNAS 101, 17669-17674 [abstract]
V. Noireaux, R. Bar-Ziv, A. Libchaber, Principles of Cell-free Genetic Circuit Assembly, PNAS 100, 12672-12677 [abstract]
B. Dubertret, P. Skourides, D.J. Norris, V. Noireaux, A.H. Brivanlou, A. Libchaber, In Vivo Imaging of Quantum Dots Encapsulated in Phospholipids Micelles, Science 298, 1759-1762 [abstract]
J. Fradelizi, V. Noireaux, J. Plastino, B. Menichi, D. Louvard, C. Sykes, R.M. Golsteyn, E. Friederich, ActA and the Human Zyxin Harbour Arp2/3 Complex Independent Actin Polymerisation Activity, Nature Cell Biology 3, 699-707 [abstract]
V. Noireaux, R. M. Golsteyn, E. Friederich, J. Prost, C. Antony, D. Louvard, C. Sykes, Growing an Actin Gel on Spherical Surfaces, Biophy. J. 78, 1643-1654 [abstract]