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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Aug 25

Big congrats on this beautiful work!

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

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...

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Jun 16

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@manuelsalmeron.bsky.social

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…

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Jun 16

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!

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Apr 25

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

Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Apr 25

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/...

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Pere Roca-Cusachs @pcusachs.bsky.social · Apr 1

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!

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Mar 28

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/...

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CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · Mar 3

🚨 📈 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!! 👉

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.

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Feb 26

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

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…

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CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · Feb 20

⚠️⏳ There are less than 2 weeks left to submit your abstract!!

Hurry up and submit here! 👇🏻

cellmech2025.org/abstracts/

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

DGZ.bsky.social @dgz.bsky.social · Jan 28

Next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #CellAdhesion and #Mechanobiology on Feb 25, organized by Andrew Clark and @adacavalcanti.bsky.social - see you there!

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Feb 17

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

Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Feb 17

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

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CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨 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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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Jan 22

Does this work now? Thanks!

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Jan 13

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 !

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Dec 21

Merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🥳

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Dec 10

Very exciting!

CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · Dec 10

👋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!

The organizing committee, Sylvain Gabriele, Marine Luciano, Jorge Barrasa Fano, Yohalie Kalukula, Bart Smeets, Apeksha Shapeti, Hans Van Oosterwyck

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Dec 6

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!

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Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social · Dec 3

🎈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

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Nov 30

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Nov 21

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

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thanks!

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Jorge Ferreira @jorgeferreira.bsky.social · Nov 13

Want to engage with the #mechanobiology community? Why not join this group? Just drop me a DM and I´ll add you.
go.bsky.app/G5cQqYT

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Giuseppe Ciccone @giusciccone.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi Jorge, thanks for this! Could I please be added?

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Jorge Barrasa Fano @barrasa-fano.bsky.social · Nov 20

👋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

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