During #brain development, axons grow along precise pathways. Scientists have now discovered that tissue stiffness & chemical signalling interact with each other.

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@fau.de @embl.org @franzelab.bsky.social

#research #neuroscience

Presenting our latest results!!

Glad to have been part of the team! Huge thanks to everyone especially @evapillai.bsky.social @niklasgampl.bsky.social and @franzelab.bsky.social !!!

#xenopus #mechanobiology

#Frogpower here

Very excited to share our latest work on the interplay between chemical and mechanical signals orchestrating brain development 🧠⚙️! This was a great team effort and I am grateful to have been a part of it!! @evapillai.bsky.social @sudimukherjee.bsky.social @franzelab.bsky.social

🚨Why can’t mammals regenerate legs or arms like frog tadpoles or salamanders?
Our preprint tackles (part of) this BIG question with surprising findings about oxygen sensing
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉
🐭 vs 🐸 #evodevo #regenerative #cellbio 🧵👇

Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM

You fully deserve it! Just continue your amazing research at the interface of physical and life sciences. very much looking forward to future breakthroughs coming from your lab! Congrats, Elias!

Congrats, Eva!

Environmental stiffness regulates neuronal
maturation via Piezo1-mediated transthyretin activity.

My main postdoc paper is finally online!

Thanks to all the co-authors, the entire Franze lab and the Káradóttir lab.
@franzelab.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great lab, highly recommended! And, even if I may be a bit biased, also the environment is pretty cool. #mechanobiology @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social (MPZPM)

If you're interested in a fully funded PhD position in an amazing lab in the UK working at the interface of life and physical sciences, go for it! Warwick offers a vibrant scientific environment with a strong biophysics community. And Eva is just a great scientist and person!

Thank you Dionn Hargreaves, Sarah Woolner & @dev-journal.bsky.social for highlighting our @sudimukherjee.bsky.social @franzelab.bsky.social preprint! Chuffed to see it engaged with through fresh eyes! 🙌

Interested in how mechanical & chemical signals shape tissue development? Give it a look!
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Thanks for picking our preprint and for this very nice prelight article!

Thanks a lot to @dev-journal.bsky.social and the Woolner lab for highlighting our recent preprint investigating how long-range chemical signals are regulated by tissue mechanics. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Excited to announce the Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026!

Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated to Archaea.

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...

We are really proud to share the first 'Pre-Print' from the Storer lab driven by the fantastic Byron Mui, and co-lead by the innovative Kevin Chalut, on tissue mechanics, ECM and regeneration. A big thanks also to our collaborators in the Franze Lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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