Great way to start 2025! 🤩 Check out our latest review on photodynamic #hydrogels for tunable #mechanics!👇 cell.com/cell-reports-p… Thank to all co-authors!

Branched and Linear F-actin Networks Control Directional Migration Switching Behavior on Aligned Collagen Fibrils biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Tissue-Like Multicellular Development Triggered by Mechanical Compression in Archaea biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Out just now at Nature Communications and a great start into the New Year: we reveal how yeast cytoplasmic γ-TuRC is assembled and activated by dimeric CM1 motifs of the receptor protein Spc72 and how the microtubule polymerase Stu2 binds to promote MT assembly. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Actin ❤️

Roles for the canonical polarity machinery in the de novo establishment of polarity in budding yeast spores biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📣 Registration for the Cell Biology and Cancer, Molecular and Mechanical Oscillations at Institut Curie is open until February 2nd, 2025! Discover full program and register now on: training.institut-curie.org/courses/cell-b…

Ever wondered how to manipulate mechanical forces in the developing zebrafish heart?🤓 Check out our JoVE protocol by Christina Vagena-Pantoula and Hajime, where we describe magnetic bead grafting as an effective approach to study #mechanotransduction!🐟🔬 app.jove.com/t/67604/manipu…

Non-invasive characterization of oocyte deformability in micro-constrictions biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Myosin Light Chains in the Progression of Cancer mdpi.com/3090968 #mdpicells

The mechanical state of pre-tumoral epithelia controls subsequent Drosophila tumor aggressiveness sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A protein interaction map of the myosin Myo2 reveals a role of Alo1 in mitochondrial inheritance in yeast. (note: yeast Myo2 = Myosin V) journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/do…

Borges, A. Chara, O. (2024). Peeking into the future: inferring mechanics in dynamical tissues. Biochemical Society Transactions, BST20230225. #EpithelialMechanicsReview doi.org/10.1042/BST202…

Planar polarized force propagation integrates cell behavior with tissue shaping during convergent extension cell.com/current-biolog…

Phylogenomics of neglected flagellated protists supports a revised eukaryotic tree of life cell.com/current-biolog…

Traveling wave chemotaxis of neutrophil-like HL-60 cells molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mb…

Are you a Japanese student interested in a postdoctoral fellowship in the US? The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has an exciting new fully-funded Global Science Scholars program to pair students who have received their undergraduate or doctoral degrees in Japan with US bioengineering

Towing of lateral line axons in vivo in a transgenic zebrafish embryo. Great imaging at the EMBO #DevBiol course in Quintay, Chile, using a ZEISS Microscopy Light Sheet microscope. Huge thanks to Vicerrectoría de Investigación U. Mayor Center for Integrative Biology U. Mayor Microxchile 🔬🇨🇱 Leonardo E. Valdivia Zebramayor & LiSIUM_Chile

Fast adaptation of Myosin II activity to confinement sustains neutrophil migration in capillaries biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Regionalized regulation of actomyosin organization influences cardiomyocyte cell shape changes during chamber curvature formation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…