How convenient - this tree already comes with ornaments! Get into the holiday spirit with this beautiful cell tree by @oozguc.bsky.social from @ibecbarcelona.eu. This beautiful fusion of science and art was made using our Lamin B1 stem cell line - complete with pink nuclei ornaments!

I am putting together a collection of video-protocols we (will) use in tissue mechanics research🌀 I hope to help consolidate established methods, but also showcase a few up-and-coming ones in our blooming field. Abstract submission by March 2026! Get in touch✨ #JoVETissueMech #ReproducibleTissueMech

For this festive season, I’m sending friends and family something a little different: postcards straight from the microscope. 🔬 Featuring my hiPSC Christmas tree from last year and a hiPSC colony turned into a festive bauble, with wishes for a season that’s festive at every scale. 🎄

You know that sinking feeling 🥶 when it was all going well, but this past month your cells stopped attaching to their protein patterns? Could it be the change of season...? 🫠 Don't know what I mean and it all works? Help a friend! Get your protocol on video🎄🎁 #JoVETissueMech #ReproducibleTissueMech

Meet the Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club @epimechfc.bsky.social Nimesh Chahare @onenimesa.bsky.social and Julia Eckert @juliaeckert.bsky.social introduce us to the Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club. Learn how you can get involved with this community: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/04/e...

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

Thank you to organisers Alex Dunn, @zevgartner.bsky.social, @adrianjacobo.bsky.social and Matthew Kutys and everyone who joined us for our Workshop on New Technologies for Studying and Reprogramming Development. #BiologistsWorkshops biologists.com/workshops

A gourd-geous image of our lamin B1 cell line for your Halloween cell-ebrations! 🎃🧬 📸 Thanks to @oozguc.bsky.social for sharing this unbe-leaf-able shot! #FluorescenceFriday

When #halloween meets #FluorescenceFriday 🎃

📣Announcing the 4th edition of the EMBL‑IBEC Conference on “Engineering Multicellular Systems”, taking place 11–13 March 2026 in Barcelona. Exploring organoids, mechanobiology, embryo models, organ-on-chip systems, multiomics and more. Abstracts open now! events.ibecbarcelona.eu/embl-ibec-co...

1/ 🎉Excited to share our new preprint @vignjeviclab.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social : "Self-organization of tumor heterogeneity and plasticity" biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Tumor heterogeneity and plasticity drive metastasis and relapse. How is tumor patterning coordinated? A thread👇

Check out the preprint of my main work in the lab of @xaviertrepat.bsky.social @IBECBarcelona. Many thanks to all the people involved!

Really just had something like this feeling this afternoon. It’s the high that keeps you coming back for more

On cell extrusion in the #intestine! After 80 years of observations, we finally took a deeper look thanks to 2D #organoids. We report: 3D #forces, #extrusion still only in the villus even without curvature, #lamellipodia generate 3D force.. and more. Have a look! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Have you ever thought about inflating tissues? Or maybe quickly deflating those inflated tissues? New #EpithelialMechanics pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧵 with pressure control, multiscale buckling, controlled wrinkling

🚨 Second preprint of the week! We uncover the multiscale dynamics of active viscoelastic buckling in epithelia. We harness these mechanical instabilities for synthetic morphogenesis. Led by @onenimesa.bsky.social 🙌. Theory by Marino Arroyo etal. @ibecbarcelona.eu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

highly recommended! 👇

Featured image with Özge Özgüç: the Node–FocalPlane image competition Find out more about @oozguc.bsky.social and the story behind "Cell-estial bloom", which won the image competition we organised with @focalplane.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/featured-ima...

From Turkiye’s Children’s Day to San Jordi in Catalonia, today is all about love, knowledge, and the future. @ibecbarcelona.eu turned my microscopy image into a bookmark for the occasion🎈 23 Nisan kutlu olsun & Feliç Diada de Sant Jordi!

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 #EpithelialMechanics

We’re looking for PhD students to join the lab! 🧫🧑‍🔬 Curious about how metabolic processes shape patterning and morphogenesis? Enthusiastic about stem cell models for human development? - Then apply through the VBC PhD program! training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/ ‼️Deadline: April 15‼️

In their Review, Laura Faure, Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and Pere Roca-Cusachs discuss the biological contexts of cell mechanical compression, the associated mechanisms and the experimental systems engineered to compress cells in vitro. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

🎉Congratulations to the Top 3 images from the Node–FocalPlane image competition! 1️⃣"Cell-estial bloom" by @oozguc.bsky.social 2️⃣"Dancing actinotroch" by @allancarbal.bsky.social 3️⃣"Who’s active?" by @jupeloggia.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/results-from... @focalplane.bsky.social #biologists100

The Node-FocalPlane image competition at #biologists100. All the votes are now in, and we can announce our three prize winners: @oozguc.bsky.social, @allancarbal.bsky.social and @jupeloggia.bsky.social. Read more ⤵️: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/27/a...

Whaaat?! Cell-estial Bloom took 1st place in the Node–FocalPlane image competition! 🤯🤯🤯

On my way to to the International Dutch Embryo Model Meeting 2025! 🚆 Excited to dive into the latest advances and have some great discussions. If you’re around and curious about mechanics in development / mechanically accessible models, come find my poster!! #IDEMM25

My image on display at #Biologists100! 🖼️🔬 So surreal to see “Cell-estial Bloom” showcased in this gallery among so many stunning images! Huge thanks to @LFort8 for the photo! Also: ✨ it is the last day to vote! ✨ thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you... @the-node.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab! Thankful for any retweet! 🫶 imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980

Together with @focalplane.bsky.social, we're having an image competition to accompany the #Biologists100 conference. Thank you everyone who submitted their images. Shortlisting only 15 was tough! Browse through the gallery and vote for your favourite image: thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

My image is shortlisted and will be displayed at #100Biologists! 🎉 This “Cell-estial Bloom” features LaminB-labeled cells from @alleninstitute.bsky.social glowing in all their fluorescent glory! ✨ All very incredible images—check them out and vote for your favorite (Hope it’s mine! 🤞)!

A woman studies embryos for decades, struggles for funding and respect. She publishes under her husband’s name, until they divorce. A single mother, she moves across an ocean to continue her studies. It all sounds quite modern, until you learn that she also worried she’d be burned as a witch. 🧵 1/15

Voting is open in our image competition with @the-node.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone that entered, and congratulations to our final 15. Now it's your turn to pick your favourite! Look out for our gallery of images at the Biologists @ 100 conference #biologists100.

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.

It is #FluorescenceFriday! Perfectly suited for Valentine’s Day—a 2-cell stage mouse embryo where actin staining created a heart-shaped negative space around its nucleus🔬. Captured it 4 years ago, but still one of my favorites for this time of year ❣️

3/7: Why MIRO is unique? ✅ Immunocompetent: tracks #ImmuneCells movement & interactions ✅ Cells self-organize & build their own extra-cellular matrix ✅ Cost-effective, reproducible & user-friendly 🎥 cellular organization in MIRO #ECM #TumorEcosystem

We have a new #stopdoing #science meme, courtesy of Miquel Bosch Padros from the @xaviertrepat.bsky.social lab. Late for #mechanobiology Monday, but here to stay on your lab meme boards forever.

No need for explosives, this year's firework show is cell-powered! 🔬💥 Check out the "fireworks" created by cells pulling on the substrate and displacing tiny beads, visualized with #3DTFM ! 🎇 Let’s make 2025 explosive with science! 👩‍🔬🎉 #HappyNewYear

Happy to see the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ contest still going strong! 🎉 I couldn’t resist sharing my own ‘Beast’. 👺 I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little scared when I first saw it in the dark microscopy room! 😅 It also made its way into lab meme culture—how could it not?

Özge Özgüç (@oozguc.bsky.social), investigadora de l'#IBEC, ha creat un arbre de Nadal amb una colònia cel·lular!🎄 🔬Ha guiat el creixement de les cèl·lules amb micropatrons triangulars, i els adorns són els nuclis cel·lulars (en rosa). 🧬Finalment, ha marcat el còrtex cel·lular en verd!

How convenient - this tree already comes with ornaments! 🎄🧪 Get into the holiday spirit with this beautiful cell tree by @oozguc.bsky.social from @ibecbarcelona.eu. This beautiful fusion of science and art was made using our Lamin B1 stem cell line! What would you want to see under your cell tree?

🎄 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮 𝗟𝗼𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀... 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲! 🔬 Why buy Christmas trees when you can "grow" one using micropatterning and @alleninstitute.bsky.social cells that come with their own LaminB1 "ornaments"? Happy #FluorescenceFriday! ✨❄️

See you in San Diego old and new friends! Join me and my talk in the organoid subgroup on Wednesday at 9:15 AM for a dive into the elements that drive intestinal cell extrusion. It's a very pretty, fundamental story ✨

Introducing "3D Micropatterned Traction Force Microscopy", our new joint work with Pere Roca-Cusach's lab, led by amazing Laura Faure and Manu Gómez. Hope you find it useful!👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Pre-announcing the EMBO/EMBL symposium "Mechanobiology Across the Tree of Life", Heidelberg, 9-12 June 2026. It is still very very far away, but save the date 🗓️. With Alba Diz-Munoz, @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social , Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social, Enrique Rojas. www.embl.org/about/info/c...

I love academia with a sense of humor 🤓 ! Here's to science that’s delightfully boop-worthy. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... Thank you 'Current Boopology'. you've truly made my day!😅

Cells are strong & generate forces while interacting with their environment. Traction Force Microscopy has been instrumental in measuring these forces, revealing the underlying mechanics. Let's explore pioneering papers in this 🧵by @onenimesa.bsky.social & @juliaeckert.bsky.social

When a medical doctor steps into a developmental biology lab to study the mechanics of human embryo development thenode.biologists.com/when-a-medic... via @the_Node