#Brillouin spectroscopy of #hydrogels for #mechanobiology Massimo Vassalli Mariana Azevedo G Oliva Alessandra - #Sanremo2025 Giulio Capponi Silvia Caponi and Maurizio Mattarelli at Università degli Studi di Perugia

Everyone I meet, I make a mental note of what dog breed they remind me of. Not based on looks (necessarily) but based on temperament & frequency of their spontaneous movements, or lack thereof. Dogs exhibit huge variation in brain circuit specialization. I suspect humans do too.

Happy to finally see our JoVE protocol out! 🎉

Exciting protocols out now in our JoVE collection on #mechanobiology Massimo Vassalli Mariana Azevedo G Oliva

Great day yesterday out in Genova Massimo Vassalli Oana Dobre Mariana Azevedo G Oliva Camilla Romagnoli @MartaCubero6 and others (where is Delphine? 😄) N4M Ready for today’s session!

Had an amazing time at N4M 2022! So happy to have presented my work and to have met so many interesting and inspiring people in the field :)

Some of the ⁦Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment⁩ at FEBS22 ⁦Manuel Salmeron⁩ ⁦Matt Dalby⁩! What a great meeting, special thanks to Delphine for the amazing organisation!

Fun day filming our JoVE protocol on nanoindentation of soft gels and cells Mariana Azevedo G Oliva Massimo Vassalli Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment

Happy to share that our work 'Vitronectin-based hydrogels recapitulate neuroblastoma growth conditions' is out today ! Thank you Oana Dobre and Ezequiel 😀 Sara Trujillo Manuel Salmeron frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Always wanted to know how tension alters the structure of focal adhesions? Together with Massimo Vassalli Massimo Vassalli we measured the distance of focal adhesion proteins to the cell membrane dependent on cell tension. #mechanobiology Biomaterials Advances doi.org/10.1016/j.bioa…

Congrats RossLab - this great paper in Nature Communications demonstrates (1) that nanotopography can maintain immunomodulatory MSC phenotype and (2) identify activity metabolites to be identified allowing large scale culture. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our JoVE video protocol on soft matter nanoindentation is finally out: jove.com/v/63401/experi…! Mariana Azevedo G Oliva Massimo Vassalli Manuel Salmeron Check it out for tips and tricks on how to measure the elastic properties of hydrogels and cells #mechanobiology

Very happy to host next Thursday Mariana Azevedo G Oliva and Giuseppe Ciccone from Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment at the University of Glasgow to discuss about viscoelastic matrices and cell mechanobiology Université de Mons

Super happy to have defended my PhD thesis this week in University of Glasgow. Thanks so much to my group Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment and especially to my supervisors Manuel Salmeron Oana Dobre and examining committee @CavalcantiAda Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia Delphine Gourdon ✨🔬🎉

Very excited to see this out! Huge congratulations Giuseppe Ciccone and everyone

Our Review on multiscale curvature is out in Nature Reviews Physics with Luciano Marine, Caterina Tomba and Roux Lab : How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions ? rdcu.be/dADWz

Very happy to be a part of this work looking into cadherin-integrin crosstalk in viscosity sensing. Huge congratulations Eva and everyone, and thank you for having me be a part of it 🎉😁

CAT 🧬🔀 Un estudi liderat per l'#IBEC revela com les cèl·lules mare mesenquimàtiques (MSC) responen a la viscositat del seu entorn, clau en el procés de diferenciació. ✅ Això té aplicació en el disseny de biomaterials per medicina regenerativa. 👉 Més: ibecbarcelona.eu/ca/la-viscosit…