Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab
@squeezycellslab.bsky.social
We are passionate about how cells squeeze through tiny in spaces in vivo, and how they get to divide and make fate decisions whilst they are at it!
We love fish, frogs, live microscopy and arts and crafts.
We love fish, frogs, live microscopy and arts and crafts.
Pinned
Very excited to share the first preprint from the lab:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations.
Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations.
Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟
Reposted by Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab
Hot from the #preprint
Leukocyte + #CellMigration + physics = cool
Microtubules enable torque-based steering during dendritic cell migration.
Actomyosin contractility is required for noise-modulation strategy used by neutrophils.
Full @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Leukocyte + #CellMigration + physics = cool
Microtubules enable torque-based steering during dendritic cell migration.
Actomyosin contractility is required for noise-modulation strategy used by neutrophils.
Full @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Torque-based immune cell chemotaxis in complex environments
Directed migration in chemical gradients is crucial to the immune response, yet how immune cells navigate complex tissues remains incompletely understood. Using in vitro migration assays and theoretic...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hot from the #preprint
Leukocyte + #CellMigration + physics = cool
Microtubules enable torque-based steering during dendritic cell migration.
Actomyosin contractility is required for noise-modulation strategy used by neutrophils.
Full @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Leukocyte + #CellMigration + physics = cool
Microtubules enable torque-based steering during dendritic cell migration.
Actomyosin contractility is required for noise-modulation strategy used by neutrophils.
Full @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab
Now (finally) #published @natcomms.nature.com: "A multi-tiered mechanical mechanism shapes the early neural plate" @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
A great collaboration of experiment and theory to explain the tissue flows shaping the #zebrafish neural plate!
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61303-1
A great collaboration of experiment and theory to explain the tissue flows shaping the #zebrafish neural plate!
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61303-1
July 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Now (finally) #published @natcomms.nature.com: "A multi-tiered mechanical mechanism shapes the early neural plate" @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
A great collaboration of experiment and theory to explain the tissue flows shaping the #zebrafish neural plate!
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61303-1
A great collaboration of experiment and theory to explain the tissue flows shaping the #zebrafish neural plate!
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61303-1
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Very excited to share our latest preprint! We looked at loss and gain of function, innervation, reinnervation, and in vivo axonal transport in a FUS-ALS mouse model!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@uclqsion.bsky.social @beccasimkin.bsky.social @andrewtosolini.bsky.social @frattalab.bsky.social
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June 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Very excited to share our latest preprint! We looked at loss and gain of function, innervation, reinnervation, and in vivo axonal transport in a FUS-ALS mouse model!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@uclqsion.bsky.social @beccasimkin.bsky.social @andrewtosolini.bsky.social @frattalab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@uclqsion.bsky.social @beccasimkin.bsky.social @andrewtosolini.bsky.social @frattalab.bsky.social
Reposted by Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab
How innate immunity starts? Early embryos eliminate bacterial infections by epithelial phagocytosis, a conserved process from zebrafish to human embryos. Check our story:
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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June 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab!
👉 deadline 20/06
👇 check it out
www.godinholab.com
👉 deadline 20/06
👇 check it out
www.godinholab.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
👋 Are you looking for a postdoc position? Do you think microtubules are fascinating? Then we might have the job for you! 2-year funded postdoc to join our lab!
👉 deadline 20/06
👇 check it out
www.godinholab.com
👉 deadline 20/06
👇 check it out
www.godinholab.com
Reposted by Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab
This Friday, UK Cell Motility Club symposium in Cambridge, UK: exciting PhD student and Postdoc speaker line up! A few last minute spots available. Organised by @squeezycellslab.bsky.social and @matthias-krause.bsky.social
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June 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This Friday, UK Cell Motility Club symposium in Cambridge, UK: exciting PhD student and Postdoc speaker line up! A few last minute spots available. Organised by @squeezycellslab.bsky.social and @matthias-krause.bsky.social
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June 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
No plans for this Friday?
Come join us at the UK Cell Motility Club, last chance to register cytoskeleton.wixsite.com/londoncellmo...
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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
May 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
Very excited to share the first preprint from the lab:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations.
Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations.
Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟
June 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Very excited to share the first preprint from the lab:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations.
Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations.
Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟
Reposted by Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab
#CellBiology: “The centrosome is exposed to mechanical forces and can even break when cells move through narrow or complex environments,” says Renkawitz. #LMU researchers led by Jörg Renkawitz have discovered how these cells protect a sensitive organelle, the centrosome, from being destroyed.
Cell biology: how cells protect their centrosome against mechanical forces
When motile immune cells move through tissue, they are exposed to strong forces. Researchers at LMU have discovered how these cells protect a sensitive organelle, the centrosome, from being destroyed.
www.lmu.de
May 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
#CellBiology: “The centrosome is exposed to mechanical forces and can even break when cells move through narrow or complex environments,” says Renkawitz. #LMU researchers led by Jörg Renkawitz have discovered how these cells protect a sensitive organelle, the centrosome, from being destroyed.