Our next #ForceTalk is with Prof Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social exploring "Mechanosensing of epithelial cells: curvature, confinement and memory" 📅 4 March 2026 🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT Online & open to all 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force... #mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social

Beautiful work from @rouxlab.bsky.social on the mechanical adaptation of epithelial tissues to multiscale curvature 👏🏻 Congrats to @marineluciano.bsky.social and all co-authors !

🚀 Very happy to see our research article “Tube feet dynamics drive adaptation in sea star locomotion” out in PNAS ! 👉🏼 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Fantastic collab with Patrick Flammang (UMONS), Sina Heydari (California State), Stanislav N. Gorb (Kiel Univ), and Eva Kanso (Univ Southern California)

The place to be 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

I am delighted to share that I have been awarded the Francqui Research Professorship 🥳 This achievement is above all a collective success and I sincerely thank all the researchers of my lab www.cellmechanobiology.com, past and present, for their incredible work! web.umons.ac.be/fs/fr/sylvai...

New preprint! 🚨 We uncover a slow adaptation to stretch that links star-bundling of keratin filaments with nuclear escape from its keratin cage. Led by @tomgolde.bsky.social‬ 🙌 @IBECBarcelona www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our new publication in Nature Physics about the mechanical memory of morphology in confined migrating cells by @kyohalie.bsky.social 🥳 Super fun collab with @davidbrueckner.bsky.social and @gcharras.bsky.social 👏🏻 Enjoy the reading www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint out! We show how cellular nematic order can be harnessed to program tissue-wide force fields and guide 3D shape transformations. The tissue morphogenesis logic, now engineered into living, programmable materials. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ActiveMatter #TissueEngineering

🔬 Excited to share our new publication in Soft Matter about hydrogel dimensionality to investigate mechanobiology. This paper with @marineluciano.bsky.social is part of the themed collection “Pioneering Investigators” - Lab website : www.cellmechanobiology.com 👉🏼 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

@sarawickstrom.bsky.social 🎤Mechanical regulation of cell states bsky.app/profile/cell...

My lab is co-organizing the CellMech2025 conference @cellmech2025.bsky.social. I’m excited to announce that the scientific program is now online! 👉🏼 cellmech2025.org/programme/ There’s still time to submit your abstract for the Scientific Art Contest and compete for prizes !

Have you ever wondered what happens when a sea star carries a backpack full of beads? You can now find out: « Tube feet dynamics drive adaptation in sean star locomotion » www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Luciano, M., Tomba, C., Roux, A., & Gabriele, S. (2024). How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions. Nature Reviews Physics, #EpithelialMechanicsReveiw

Paper 1: @sgabriele.bsky.social lab placed cells on wavy substrates (20-50µm) to demonstrate the impact of curvature on cell thickness ➡️ nudging nucleus shape ➡️ revealing mechanoadaptation.

Happy to share our new publication in @naturematerials.bsky.social on mechanical cell competition! Great collaboration between our CAM team, Chavrier's and Doostmohammadi's. Special congrats @luanger.bsky.social, @andreasschoenit.bsky.social, Siavash Monfared! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Only a few hours left to register for @cellmech2025.bsky.social, deadline by March 16, 2025 ! 👇🏼

Time is flying, hurry up guys !

⚠️⏳ There are less than 2 weeks left to submit your abstract!! Hurry up and submit here! 👇🏻 cellmech2025.org/abstracts/

Join us online on Tuesday, February 25, for this exciting DGZ workshop on #celladhesion and #mechanobiology 👇🏼

Check out our latest paper in Advanced Science 🥳, where we use viscoelastic hydrogels to better understand how spatial confinement and matrix viscoelasticity jointly regulate cell migration: lnkd.in/diRstW2B Great collaboration between UMONS and @giusciccone.bsky.social @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social

The 10th edition of CellMech 2025, which my lab is co-organizing in Sept-Oct ‘25, has officially opened the abstract submission portal! cellmech2025.org We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers, who will help us to make this conference a major event in mechanobiology!

Thrilled to share our new preprint on detecting the nematic orientation field on surfaces of 3D multicellular systems! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Huge thanks to all authors: @tobyandrews.bsky.social,Joe Pollard, @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @yap-lab.bsky.social &Richard Morris Any 3D systems?👇

Yamini @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social changed the topology of Hydra to show that actin orientational defects of Hydra induce the full program of head regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Mechanics controls development! Thanks to Dan Pearce, Karsten Kruse, Matthias Vogg & Brigitte Galliot.

And here is pre-print 2/2! *HYDRA: HYdrogel Dispensing with Robotic Automation* - a scalable solution for drug testing. Great work by 1st author @eloisa_torchia and team with help from the labs of @sgabriele.bsky.social Elisa Cimetta and Johan Lind biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really looking forward to visit the Salmeron’s lab at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia @ibecbarcelona.eu at Barcelona tomorrow ! Thanks to @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social and @giusciccone.bsky.social for their kind invitation !

Season’s greetings and happy holidays from the Mechanobiology & Biomaterials group at the University of Mons

Really bummed to have missed ASCB this year due to some last-minute circumstances, but excited that our manuscript describing an IF disassembly tool will (hopefully) be posted soon. Here's a movie of vimentin color-coded by orientation.

Super cool study 🤩

👋Hello #mechanobiology community in 🦋! This is the official account of the 10th Edition of the Cell Mech conference! 🔧We will soon announce the invited speaker list! Visit our website, subscribe to the mailing list, and follow us!: cellmech2025.org 😍Join us in Leuven 2025!

🤩 Very proud of my PhD student Yohalie Kalukula who has been selected by The Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter Symposium hosted by the UChicago and UCSD MRSECs👏🏻 You can register to watch her talk on the mechanical memory of confined migrating cells👇🏼 mrsec.uchicago.edu/about-us/ris...

As promised, here a fast acquisition of a migrating cell videoed under a microscopy, look those membrane dynamics @ the leading edge ! Bonus: nuclear deformation once the cell rear snaps. (Fluo nucleus, for the #fluorescencefriday) @focalplane.bsky.social @cellcommlab.bsky.social #CellMigration 🧪🔬

🎈New preprint! We study how single cells move up, down and about fibronectin gradients. Experiments by @icfortunato.bsky.social, theory by David Bruckner. Collaboration with @raimonsunyer.bsky.social and @ehannezo.bsky.social 👇https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.12.02.626413v1

Check out a new paper just published in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great article in the French journal Le Monde by @manuelthery.bsky.social about the self-organization of microtubules and molecular motors 👇🏼 www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Join us next week in London for the conference « Mechanobiology Shaping Life » organized at the Institute of Physics iop.eventsair.com/msl2025/ 👇🏼

I am delighted to share our new preprint in which we reveal the crucial role for mechanical forces in myoblast fusion. Great work from Yoann, Sushil and Aleksandra and great collaboration with Christophe Marcelle and Amin Doostmohammadi! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Large-scale collective motion of epithelial cells not as a fluid, but as a polar elastic solid. Our new study posted on Biorxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pre-announcing the 10th Biennial European CellMech conference organized in Leuven 🇧🇪 from September 30th to October 3rd, 2025. cellmech2025.org Save the date !