New paper out! We studied collective durotaxis as a 3D active wetting phenomenon. nature.com/articles/s4156… Nature Physics IBEC Universitat de Barcelona @CIBERBBN ICREA Community 🧵👇

Happy Holidays!

It’s done, my first-ever paper was published in Nature Communications ! #PhDlife #biophysics nature.com/articles/s4146… In it, we combined #optogenetics and #TissueEng to explore tissue rheology. Let me walk you through it… ⤵️

Finally made it to Dresden after several cancelled flights for #DPG #SKM23 with Nimesh Chahare . No we have to find a way to get to the TU. Can someone pick us up at the Neustadt?!

Cells: Do you think we're funny? We think we're bunny! Happy Easter!🐰🌸🐣#PRIMO #micropatterning Alvéole IBEC

Super thrilled to share my first postdoc paper in Kowalczyk Lab lab! And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't just as thrilled about getting the cover! I'd like to thank our excellent team: Will Giang 🔬 Stahley Lab AIC at Janelia COSEM Coryn Hoffman, Wayne Vogl... (see🧵below:)

I present: My first published contribution as a postdoc in the Xavier Trepat lab. Great work that was mainly done by Ariadna Marin-Llauradó and Sohan Kale

Happy that my Postdoc work is now published in Nature Materials🎉 My journey started at Pere Roca-Cusachs Lab IBEC, with a simple question: Does the type of #ECM affect rigidity sensing? Short answer: YES! Here's how:🧵 nature.com/articles/s4156… #Mechanosensing #Cytoskeleton

Late to the party, but this summer we published a theory paper about intermediate filament bundle formation based on my experiments with stretching epithelial monolayers. Find the synopsis here: physics-aps-org.sire.ub.edu/articles/v16/s… Full paper: journals-aps-org.sire.ub.edu/prl/abstract/1…

I made a thread about intermediate filaments and #EpithelialMechanics for the epithelial mechanics fan club

A mechanosensing mechanism controls plasma membrane shape homeostasis at the nanoscale. elifesciences.org/articles/72316…

New Year's party is around the corner! 🎉 Let's talk about a party—where drugs don't hit the dance floor but tune #EpithelialMechanics by hitting actomyosin cortex! 🧬💊 Here's our guide to doing drugs 🧵

What are lumens and how do forces control tissue form and fate through lumen size? Join me, Dhiraj Indana, in this short thread to explore this question through some fascinating papers.

What are the timescales of mechanotransduction? Does it cease iimediately once force transmission stops? In a great collaboration with the labs of ShenoyLab, Anseth Group, Ivaska Lab, Xavier Trepat, and Gerhard Wiche, Amy showed that it does not.

Everyone interested in Intermediate Filaments, the time has come! Registration has opened for the 2024 Gordon Research Conference/Seminar on Intermediate Filaments. The seminar will take place from June 15-16 and the Conference is from June 16-21 in Castelldefels, B, Spain. (1/3)

Hi #AcademicChatter!💡Do you think private editorials should start compensating reviewers?

#IntermediateFilaments are key mechanical determinants in cells, but the structural characteristics responsible for their unique mechanical behaviour are not fully understood. Here we discuss exciting new findings about their structure and properties: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How can we use cell shapes and geometry to study mechanics of tissues? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social and with this thread I would like to show you the secrets of cells and tissues. Let’s connect biology with a little bit of physics. Don't be scared and get inspired 😀. #EpithelialMechanics

I followed the collective migration to the 🦋 Looks pretty good already. See you there! #sciencetwitter

How to turn a layer of fibroblasts into a tulip 🌷? Check out our new pre-print on shape-programmable living surfaces. Led by Pau Guillamat IBEC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…