📢Join us this Tuesday 12/7 11AM ET for the last Cell Migration Seminar of 2021! We've got two very exciting talks lined up from early career researchers Kolade Adebowale Kolade Adebowale, Ph.D. and Nicoletta Petridou Nicoletta I Petridou This is a great way to finish off the fall series ☺️

It's my last day as a 30 year old. And my first with a postdoc paper! 🥳🍾 nature.com/articles/s4158… Brief tweetorial below...

Very proud of our work with Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Asian Pacific American Justice , Brennan Center, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, Committee of 100 Maggie Lewis, frankhwu, and so many others in ending the China Initiative. But we know that more needs to be done.

Today's the last day to register for the virtual 4th Annual Mechanobiology Symposium! We look forward to talking 'Mechanobiology and Metabolism' with you this Wednesday and Thursday! Register: ow.ly/ykFM50Ht5X7

Day 2 of the 4th Annual Mechanobiology Symposium is underway! Looking forward to an exciting morning of talks by Peter Friedl, @ZeGongGreg, Kris DeMali, Cynthia Reinhart-King, Maya Haaker, and Alisya Anlas!

Our paper on the integrity of endothelial junctions led by Eoin McEvoy was just published in Nature Communications! Our theory predicts that junctions are most stable at optimum levels of contractility and polymerization. Penn Engineering CEMB nature.com/articles/s4146…

How if we tell you, that podosomes - mechanosensitive actin-rich protrusions - play an essential role in immune cell mechanosensing? Check out the work led by @ZeGongGreg ShenoyLab on Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Excited to share our collaborative study led by Natalie J. Torok, out in Nature today! It describes how enhanced matrix viscoelasticity promotes liver cancer progression in the pre-cirrhotic liver. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Cool work! This will be another Background slide that I can add for stating the importance of matrix viscoelasticity! Congratulations!

New paper in Nature Communications! Our joint theory and Hi-Res imaging study shows how inhibiting transcription alters 3D chromatin organization by reducing loop extrusion thus increasing the size of heterochromatin domains in multiple cell lines. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Researchers from Ze Gong and Hongyuan Jiang show that superposition of substrate deformation fields induced by molecular clutches explains cell spatial sensing of ligands. Read it here 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

This is the first corresponding work since I joined USTC. We mainly discussed how the cells can probe the ligand spacing utilizing the mechanical tool of superposition of deformation fields! #mechanobiology

What a great time at SES meeting in Hangzhou. I am so happy to share my recent research progress and meet with friends in #mechanobiology field! #SES2024 Society of Engineering Science

Welcome to USTC FUSEP summer research!