My first preprint from the Chubb Lab UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology: Signalling centre vortices coordinate collective behaviour in social amoebae biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

JUST OUT📢Go against the flow ↩️ Have you ever wondered what makes a stem cell, a stem cell? In our latest paper we show how retrograde movement regulates stemness in the intestine 🔬. nature.com/articles/s4158…. Congratulations to all authors for this great work! 🍾 (🧵1/6).

Now in print! The molecular architecture of cell cycle arrest embopress.org/doi/10.15252/m… Spearheaded by now-independent Stallaert Lab Like many great studies, this one generated as many questions as answers. For example...

Our study done in Matsuda lab Michiyuki Matsuda is out in Developmental Cell ! We found that the sustained HGF-ERK signaling based on a physically regulated positive feedback loop specifies the leader cells during collective cell migration.

(1/4) Did you know that there are bacteria in human tumors? Well, this is old news now 😊. Our new study, featured on the cover of Cell, shows that human tumors contain fungi as well and that tumor fungi matter! (Cover by Marzia Munafò) cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

New reporters looking 🔥🔥🔥 THORNELAB @AndrewPaek1

Congratulations to Dr. Ted Weinert, who received the UA College of Science Distinguished Career Teaching Award! mcb.arizona.edu/news/2022/dr-t…

Researchers have used time-lapse microscopy to investigate how human colonic organoid monolayers self-organise. elifesciences.org/articles/78837…

Our latest preprint💥 Tissue deformation is critical for organ generation, but how do complex organs consisting of multiple compartments and cell types achieve this? A fantastic interdisciplinary collab with M. Lisa Manning biorxiv.org/content/10.110… short🧵👇

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Boss got promoted so we got him this 😝😝🥳🥳 Congrats Dr. Thorne!

How Voronoi Noise Became a Game-Changer in Video Games. Another massive thread 🧵

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POND_LAB is showing some awesome videos in human #intestinal #organouds that ERK waves emit surrounding apoptotic cells and maintains intestinal homeostasis - really interesting findings! #GESRC

Are colorectal cancer stem cells mechanically distinct from the rest of the tumor? Sefora Conti addressed this question using patient-derived colorectal cancer organoids. The answer is yes and you can read it in our new preprint (LGR5+ CSCs labelled red) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please check our work on self-organizing morphogenesis. We found that i) an active stress instability drives avian gastrulation; ii) our model explains distinct multicellular flows naturally observed in frogs and fish, reproduced in-vivo in the chick. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Just out before the holidays!🎄 Happy to share the result of a fun collaboration with Alpha Yap, out today in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. We hope you find it useful and informative: ➡️ rdcu.be/dtvWC #adherensjunctions #mechanobiology #morphogenesis #embryomechanics

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A new direction for our lab: previously we've done lots with light-control of proteins, but below the proteins respond to temperature 🔥❄️, not light. The first of two preprints on our entry into thermal control of cells🧵. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Some of us were asked by Cell about the future of mechanobiology. In all likelihood, 20 years from now we'll see we were all wrong. Any thoughts? What did we miss?🤔🔮👇authors.elsevier.com/a/1j8Ml_278y%7…