Amazing work led by Mariana! Go read it if you’re interested in viscoelasticity of the ECM, the molecular clutch and Piezo1 #mechanobiology

Big congrats on this beautiful work!

The actin cortex acts as a mechanical memory of morphology in confined migrating cells - Nature Physics Cells often navigate through confined spaces. Now it is shown that cells retain a mechanical memory of previous confinement events, which makes them more efficient at migrating through narrow microenv...

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...

Tuning the matrix: Recent advances in mechanobiology unveiled through polyacrylamide hydrogels Over the past 30 years, polyacrylamide (PAAm) hydrogels have become essential tools to mimic the mechanical properties, chemical composition, and dime…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@manuelsalmeron.bsky.social

Do you use #PAAm #hydrogels in your #mechanobiology research? If so, check out our mini review where we discuss advances in cell mechanobiology made using these systems. We discuss protein micropatterning, mechanical patterning, stretching, DNA tension probes, viscoelasticity, and 3D systems!

Super interesting work from the lab in Mons! Have a read if you want to learn how sea stars dynamically control their locomotion! ⭐️

Interested in how cells respond when squeezed? Check the review paper just published by Laura Faure, @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and myself on this. Really thorough and clear revision by Laura and Valeria!

Cartoon of techniques to apply one-dimensional, in-plane or volumetric cell compression in vitro.

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.
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Abstracts When submitting your abstract, please indicate which topic(s) from the list best suit(s) your submission. This is to assist with the review process and the creation of the conference program itself.

🚨 📈 Exciting news!

😰 Did you run out of time to submit an abstract?? Are you still waiting for your PI´s feedback on your abstract?? Guess what!?

Yes! We´ve extended the abstract submission deadline for CellMech 2025, until March 16!!

Hurry up!! 👉

Manuel Salmeron on LinkedIn: We are recruiting two fully funded PhD students in Barcelona - Institute… We are recruiting two fully funded PhD students in Barcelona - Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). Projects around hydrogels for cell engineering…

www.linkedin.com/posts/manuel...

Get in touch if interested in joining our team in Barcelona! @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social @ibecbarcelona.eu

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⚠️⏳ 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 👇🏼

Very happy to share the final version of our work, out in #AdvancedScience!

🚨 We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers!!

@PCusachs
@GeorgHalder
@hirashima0203.bsky.social
@iberd.bsky.social
@johannaivaska.bsky.social
@gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social
@laurentnguyen.com
@renkawitzteam.bsky.social
@Sixt_Lab
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Does this work now? Thanks!

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 !

Merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🥳

Very exciting!

Great #mechanobiology meeting in London! Thanks everyone for sharing their impressive science, and thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to share some of our own work!

🎈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 👇biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.1...

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

Thanks!

Want to engage with the #mechanobiology community? Why not join this group? Just drop me a DM and I´ll add you.
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Hi Jorge, thanks for this! Could I please be added?

👋Hello #mechanobiology community!

Next year we are organizing the CellMech conference in Leuven!

We will soon be announcing (super amazing) invited speakers, registration deadlines, etc

I'll try to keep the🦋community updated, but best is to subscribe to the mailing list 📧👇

cellmech2025.org

Starter Pack: Collective #CellMigration /Dynamics is growing. Looking at related emergent phenomena eg. #intercallation, dorsal closure or branching #morphogenesis? Reach out! Also modelers, soft-matter physicists & YOUNG scientists etc etc!

go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science

Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN

Here's a starter pack that focuses on engineers/builders/makers/enablers of optical tools for (cell) biology.

I'm pretty sure that the pack is incomplete - if you want to join the list, please reply with your favorite probe (that you made or used) and I'll add you 🤓

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Seeing lots of folks navigating over here in last few days (welcome!). Aggregating folks in the biomaterials & tissue eng. (+ adjacent) spaces that I see. Apologies if replicative. Let me know of others to add to this curated list (self-nom too!).

Here's to a new community! 🧪

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