Akshar Rao
@akshar21.bsky.social
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PhD student @IMBatUQ| Previously at IISc, Bengaluru| Epithelial Mechanics🔬🧫 | Drummer 🥁| INFJ-A
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Nimesh Chahare
5 months ago
Have you ever thought about inflating tissues? Or maybe quickly deflating those inflated tissues? New
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pre-print:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧵 with pressure control, multiscale buckling, controlled wrinkling
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epithelial mechanics fan club
6 months ago
What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations? I'm
@juliaeckert.bsky.social
. Let's explore some analysis software!
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I’m excited to share that I have started my PhD at The University of Queensland and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience under the mentorship of Prof. Alpha Yap. Looking forward to this new chapter of discovery and growth!
#PhD
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epithelial mechanics fan club
8 months ago
How do hydraulic forces impact critical processes such as tissue integrity, cell fate decisions, and embryo development? Hydraulics studies how fluids move and exert forces. Join me in exploring few articles on hydraulics in
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Benoit Ladoux
9 months ago
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...
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epithelial mechanics fan club
10 months ago
Tissues are dynamic and investigating cellular mechanical states can be crucial for understanding biological processes. But how to do it? We are
@andreasschoenit.bsky.social
and
@luanger.bsky.social
from
@bladoux.bsky.social
/
@rmmege.bsky.social
lab highlighting ways to assess tissue stresses.
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Yap Research group
10 months ago
🚨Postdoc vacancy alert! Interested to work on apoptosis/inflammation? Have some experience in biosensor-imaging and quantitative analysis of dynamic systems? 2 positions available for 2 years with potential of extension Apply now! 👉
uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
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Julia Eckert
10 months ago
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?👇
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Check out my thread on mechanical cell competition! Thanks for
@epimechfc.bsky.social
for the opportunity.
add a skeleton here at some point
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epithelial mechanics fan club
about 1 year ago
Ever wonder how cells in our epithelia fight for space? 🤔 Let's dive into the fascinating world of mechanical cell competition!
#EpithelialMechanics
Hello, I am
@akshar21.bsky.social
and I'll be your guide through this thread on mechanical
#CellCompetition
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