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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · 23d

The place to be 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social · 24d

We're looking for highly motivated candidates for PhD positions in the physics of living systems.

Our group uses theoretical physics to understand how cells collectively self-organize.

If you're interested, get in touch & check out the Biozentrum PhD Fellowship program, deadline October 12th!

Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 4

Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · 27d

I am delighted to share that I have been awarded the Francqui Research Professorship 🥳 This achievement is above all a collective success and I sincerely thank all the researchers of my lab www.cellmechanobiology.com, past and present, for their incredible work!

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Sylvain Gabriele nommé « Professeur de recherche Francqui » pour la période 2025-2028 - Faculté / FS

La Fondation Francqui a sélectionné Sylvain Gabriele, chargé de cours au Département de Chimie de la Faculté des Sciences de l’UMONS, pour le prestigieux mandat de Professeur de recherche Francqui. Ce...

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Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social · Sep 1

New preprint! 🚨 We uncover a slow adaptation to stretch that links star-bundling of keratin filaments with nuclear escape from its keratin cage. Led by @tomgolde.bsky.social‬ 🙌
@IBECBarcelona
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks a lot Sam 😊

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks Edouard 😊

Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank you @halloulab.bsky.social !

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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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Pau Guillamat @pauguillamat.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Jun 4

🔬 Excited to share our new publication in Soft Matter about hydrogel dimensionality to investigate mechanobiology. This paper with @marineluciano.bsky.social is part of the themed collection “Pioneering Investigators” - Lab website : www.cellmechanobiology.com

👉🏼 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · May 15

@sarawickstrom.bsky.social

🎤Mechanical regulation of cell states

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CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨 Exciting News! As we count down to #CellMech2025, we’re highlighting our incredible keynote speakers! 🌟

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Meet @sarawickstrom.bsky.social ! 🧬🔬 Director at MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, she explores how mechanical forces shape and maintain epithelial tissues.

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · May 14

My lab is co-organizing the CellMech2025 conference @cellmech2025.bsky.social. I’m excited to announce that the scientific program is now online!
👉🏼 cellmech2025.org/programme/

There’s still time to submit your abstract for the Scientific Art Contest and compete for prizes !

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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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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · Mar 16

Luciano, M., Tomba, C., Roux, A., & Gabriele, S. (2024). How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions. Nature Reviews Physics, #EpithelialMechanicsReveiw

How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions - Nature Reviews Physics

Structure and function of biological tissues are closely intertwined. This Review surveys the challenges in uncovering critical physical elements involved in the mechanical regulation of curved tissue...

www.nature.com

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · Mar 16

Paper 1: @sgabriele.bsky.social lab placed cells on wavy substrates (20-50µm) to demonstrate the impact of curvature on cell thickness ➡️ nudging nucleus shape ➡️ revealing mechanoadaptation.

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Benoit Ladoux @bladoux.bsky.social · Mar 14

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...

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Mar 14

🚨Only a few hours left to register for @cellmech2025.bsky.social, deadline by March 16, 2025 ! 👇🏼

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Feb 26

Time is flying, hurry up guys !

CellMech2025 @cellmech2025.bsky.social · Feb 26

4 more days to submit your abstract!! Don't miss the opportunity to come to Leuven and enjoy 4 days of #Mechanobiology:

🗣️ 15 amazing keynote speakers

🎤 Oral talks and poster sessions

📷 SciArt contest

🍻 Social activities

👉 Submit by 2nd March!! https://buff.ly/3CH94pW

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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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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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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Feb 4

The 10th edition of CellMech 2025, which my lab is co-organizing in Sept-Oct ‘25, has officially opened the abstract submission portal! cellmech2025.org

We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers, who will help us to make this conference a major event in mechanobiology!

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Julia Eckert @juliaeckert.bsky.social · Jan 29

Thrilled to share our new preprint on detecting the nematic orientation field on surfaces of 3D multicellular systems!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Huge thanks to all authors: @tobyandrews.bsky.social,Joe Pollard, @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @yap-lab.bsky.social &Richard Morris

Any 3D systems?👇

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Sylvain Gabriele @sgabriele.bsky.social · Jan 31

Congrats Julia and the team, impressive work !

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Roux Lab, Geneva @rouxlab.bsky.social · Jan 20

Yamini @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social changed the topology of Hydra to show that actin orientational defects of Hydra induce the full program of head regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mechanics controls development! Thanks to Dan Pearce, Karsten Kruse, Matthias Vogg & Brigitte Galliot.

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fspasqualini.bsky.social @fspasqualini.bsky.social · Jan 17

And here is pre-print 2/2! *HYDRA: HYdrogel Dispensing with Robotic Automation* - a scalable solution for drug testing. Great work by 1st author
@eloisa_torchia and team with help from the labs of
@sgabriele.bsky.social Elisa Cimetta and Johan Lind biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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