Let's break barriers in breast cancer research! A new study by the Chaudhuri lab &West Lab Stanford University, ShenoyLab Penn and Hodgson Lab Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official revealed how cells team up to break through tissue barriers. No invadopodia needed! Nature Materials doi.org/10.1038/s41563…

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.

Check out this fantastic thread about all things lumen by our own Dhiraj Indana 👇

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…

The force drives the lumen of a human: how the actin cytoskeleton generates force to open the human epiblast lumen. Megane Rayer 🎓 🔬🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🏃🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️🎨 🦚 🧳 & Rivka Shapiro highlight work from Dhiraj Indana and team the Chaudhuri lab. #preprint Check out their preLight ⬇️ 👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/act…

Lumen expansion is initially driven by apical actin polymerization followed by osmotic pressure in a human epiblast model dlvr.it/T6L1T9

Our May issue is here! Check out the next installment in our "hallmarks" reviews series, the biomechanics of lumen expansion in epiblast models, applying developmental dynamics of ECM to spinal cord repair (cover👇), making AT1 cells and parasympathetic neurons from hPSCs, and

Actin pushes open a leaky lumen dlvr.it/T6NbBV

Lumen expansion is initially driven by apical actin polymerization followed by osmotic pressure in a human epiblast model: cell.com/cell-stem-cell…

Thanks Yu Suk CHOI and Jennifer Young for organizing a fantastic session on stem cell mechanobiology with great talks by Prof. Fan Yang, Andrew Holle, and others, and the invitation to be a part of it! Exciting science and a great community at 12th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC 2024)!

Congratulations to Yung-Hao, Lin!

Register for "Physical Forces and the Hallmarks of Cancer" symposium on Sept 6 in La Jolla, CA. Amazing speakers including: the Chaudhuri lab @LuskingL Lammerding Lab Cynthia Reinhart-King Vicky Sanz-Moreno Michael Sheetz Kevin Tharp valerie marie weaver Denis Wirtz More: MahajaniSymposium.com

Fantastic science and a fun week at the 2024 STEEM Gordon Research Conferences! Thanks to Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley and Shelly Peyton for chairing, and Kelly Stevens and @pruitt_research for vice chairing, an amazing conf.! Looking forward to serving in 26 and 28!

Congratulations Kolade!!! Fantastic news and we are all excited to see the Adebowale lab soon at UCSD!

Congratulations Aashrith!!! We are excited to see you start your lab UMN Biomedical Eng soon!

Thank you Jing Yang@UCSD, Cosimo Commisso HargreavesLab, for organizing the Usha Maharani Symposium on physical forces and cancer. The symposium was fantastic!

Announcing the BPS Early Career Award in Mechanobiology! The nomination deadline is December 1, 2024. The award recepient will be invited to present their work at the Mechanobiology Subgroup Symposium during the BPS Annual Meeting. Please see full announcement below!

Thrilled to share our systematic study on how cross-linker architectures impact the viscoelasticity of dynamic covalent crosslinked (DCC) hydrogels. the Chaudhuri lab 🔗onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… [1/3]