❄️ Beautiful day and location to start #BSTE2024 Today I'll be presenting a 'duet' oral talk with Apeksha Shapeti 😍

👀 The always hypnotizing foam simulations of two cell spheroids fusing of Bart Smeets at #BSTE2024

The most recent preprint from our most recent PhD graduate Dr Nicolas Pasquier. Orientation of mucinous CRC apicobasal polarity is regulated by tumor-stroma interactions. This work was a collaboration with JaulinLab at the Gustave Roussy Institute. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to announce that our lab website is up and running. Our vision of controlling tissue organization and probing its mechanics is rather magnetic 🧲⚙️🧫🧬! #mechanobiology 👉 abdelfattahlab.org

You will also find us elsewhere 🦋

Thank you Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD for this feature! A correction though: these are CCM mutant cells (green) and not cancerous cells. There are parallels between CCM lesion and cancer mechanisms, but this is a CCM mutant cell pulling a non-mutant, “healthy” cell (red). nature.com/articles/s4146…

Always an honor to represent women scientists, share my passion for interdisciplinary science, communicate my research with the public, and promote my vision (2:29) for a gender-balanced future of academia. Thanks Belgian Women in Science @SoapboxscienceB!

So frustrated with for-profit journals! Nature Portfolio Science Magazine Springer Nature we pay tons of money for publishing, and review for you for free! Yet, you won't use even a small part of your profit to support our conferences! As GRC organizer I find it outrageous! 1/3

Looking forward to all the great science here and also sharing our own work!

🚨 We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers!! Pere Roca-Cusachs Georg Halder Tsuyoshi Hirashima @dagmarIber Johanna Ivaska Gijsje Koenderink Laurent Nguyen renkawitzteam Sixt Lab Vicky Sanz-Moreno Kit Parker Edouard Hannezo Cynthia Reinhart-King Wickstrom-Lab Marie-Emilie Terret

International Conference on Vascular Anomalies: Translating basic research into new therapies (VAC 2025)! : lnkd.in/e6_BbzQF. Congress networking dinner nearly sold out! Few seats left for congress participation. lnkd.in/dzTfFVej #VASCAPA #HEVAS #CMTC #EVBO #ISSVA

Today, we are celebrating #WomeninScience! 👩‍🔬👩‍💻👩‍💼 Thank you so much for all your hard work in understanding cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) and helping to find a cure for us patients! #cavernoma #kavernom #CavernousMalformation #CavernousAngioma

🚨 📈 Exciting news! 😰 Did you run out of time to submit an abstract?? Are you still waiting for your PI´s feedback on your abstract?? Guess what!? Yes! We´ve extended the abstract submission deadline for CellMech 2025, until March 16!! Hurry up!! 👉 buff.ly/3CH94pW

🏯 😍 Our conference will take place at the KULeuven University Hall !! But this beautiful building has gone through a lot... do you want to know about it? Thread! 🧵 👇 (1/5)

🚨 Exciting News! As we count down to #CellMech2025, we’re highlighting our incredible keynote speakers! 🌟 (1/2) 🔬📈 Edouard Hannezo explores how biological systems self-organize, from cytoskeletal forces to organ architecture !

🚨 Exciting News! As we count down to #CellMech2025, we’re highlighting our incredible keynote speakers! 🌟 (1/2) 🧫🔬Gijsje Koenderink, expert in soft matter physics, explores how living cells combine mechanical strength with force generation & shape changes.

👋🌞 Hey everyone! Some of you may be on holidays, but here we are still working to make #cellmech2025 the best experience for you! 🚄 ✈️ Did you already book your trip to Leuven?? 💸 Remember that we have special travel fares for flights and trains! buff.ly/R0A6EJs

🔥 ... aaand the day has come!!! Welcome to #cellmech2025 !!!!!!!!!!! 🩷

😍 🩷 A little sneak peak of #cellmech2025