Another cool application of the suspended epithelial monolayer setup by the group of Guillaume Charras from London Centre for Nanotechnology now out in Nature Materials: slow compression is buffered by actomyosin contraction up to 35% strain, thus avoiding buckling nature.com/articles/s4156…

Check our review Physical Models of Collective Cell Migration with Xavier Trepat! It is now online in Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics. annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

A really great interview by Alex Mogilner: his personal views on physical modelling of cytoskeletal dynamics and his experience of working with biologists. Very honest and interesting... cell.com/current-biolog…

Why do some fibroblasts align and others don’t? The answer is in how they collide, which is regulated by transcription factor TFAP2C. nature.com/articles/s4156… Spectacular breadth and depth of this new study by the Sahai lab. We helped with some TFM. The Francis Crick Institute IBEC

Jeff Fredberg on "how to speak". #MustWatch youtube.com/watch?v=RWtFzJ…

This week! Wednesday, Nov 13, 2:30 pm, in 310 Kelly Hall - be there to see him! "In public lectures and YouTube videos, Tokieda showcases his toys with witty, sparkling commentary, even though English is his seventh language. " ow.ly/V7uk50x3ZMj

Got our first drone delivery ✈️📦 and we are so excited! Just 5 minutes from order to arrival with Wing The future is here.

🏆I am delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Early Career Award in Mechanobiology is Yanlan Mao. 👏👏👏 She will receive the award at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Diego on 15/2. Congrats Yanlan! 🙌🔝 ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/users/yan…

Our first lab pre-print is up! We can ‘herd' living cells like flocks of sheep using bioelectricity. Excited to finally share this, and special shout-outs to Tom Zajdel and Gawoon Shim. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nanonet Force Microscopy (NFM) for measuring single cell forces using ECM mimicking suspended fibers. Collaborative projects with Emil Lou, MD, PhD, FACP, aime franco, Julie Phillippi, Bahareh Behkam, Hahn Lab, Dr. Edna Cukierman, Ph.D., Sohan Kale, Jerry SH Lee, ShiroSuetsugu, @DBLabVT, and KostaslabJHU

Excited to share our work on the impact of mechanical forces on the nucleus and chromatin @cellcellpress. In response to stretch chromatin and the nucleus soften to prevent DNA damage! a thread 1/x cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

An artist’s view of one of our epithelial domes. Cover image by irisjoval.com IBEC

Congratulations to our #IACM 2020 Fellow Awardees for their demonstrated support of the #IACM and their distinguished record of research accomplishment and publications in areas of Computational Mechanics!! #IACM #IACMAwards2020 #IACMFellowsAwards iacm.info/iacm-awards/fe…

Stress fibers are condensates within an actin network. This also implies that they interact mechanically with each other and that they form a system that allows for cell-scale mechanosensing.

Please share! #postdoctoral associate position available in Behkam Lab for an exciting project in bacterial mechanobiology and mitigation of biofilm-associated medical device infection. Application info below 👇! #bacteria #biophysics #microbiology

New paper on soft matter wireless power transfer by cloaking magnetic particles as fluid droplets in elastomers. Great working with N. Lazarus. These softer-than-skin composites combine with liquid metal for #wearable power transfer. Paper: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The PhD defense of a trainee is the most rewarding moment of this job. Today, Ernest Latorre, father of domes, defended his thesis brilliantly. He transformed my lab and inspired others.🙌

My group's collaboration with Amrinder Nain on cell-cell collisions on nanofibers is out now! pnas.org/content/118/12… I promise a more thorough thread in a few days when I've recovered from #apsmarch !