Today’s REMeD meeting was about Mechanochemistry. So exciting science!

Will be more crossover projects with mechanobiology in the future? 🧐🤔
ME3T Robert Göstl

We have several vacancies for junior group leaders Institute of Human Biology! Join us and conduct groundbreaking research in a unique institute that seamlessly integrates academic and pharmaceutical research in the vibrant city of Basel. Please RT if you know someone who should apply!

Congratulations to Celine Bastard et al. with this thorough study on finding the optimal cell ratios, hydrogel conditions, and concentrations and delivery times of multiple angiogenic growth factors to support vascularization inside PEG-based 3D hydrogels
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Microtubules are cellular mechano-sensors.
They freeze in response to 10% cellular deformation. Read here the amazing work of Yuhui Li now published in Nature Materials : rdcu.be/dfGtW

Myth❌: Since the weather is the same all year, there’s no BEST time to visit Singapore 🇸🇬

Fact✅: The BEST time to visit is during MBI Singapore's annual #mechanobiology meeting, September 26-29th!

Submit an abstract by this Friday, June 30! Hope to see you in Singapore!

Traction force microscopy is challenging. A less quantitative but simpler approach is to analyze the alignment and remodeling of matrix fibers around contractile cells. Does it actually work, and how? Take a closer look at biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Fasten your actin belt!

Epithelial cells disassemble #caveolae to strengthen their cortical #cytoskeleton upon mechanical stress.

First #preLight from Teodora Piskova RWTH Aachen covering a #preprint led by John Brooks (Yap Lab Institute for Molecular Bioscience) and team.

prelights.biologists.com/highlights/cav…

Great job of the REMeD PhD student, Teodora Piskova. She highlighted a recent preprint from Alpha Yap and Robert Parton labs. Check this out and fasten your “actin” belt 🤪 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ ME3T

Kevin, Madhura and Max defending the colours of MEET in RWTH Aachen Aachen

It is fantastic to be part of such an excellent consortium!

Our new “Organ-on-a-chip” project looks very promising. Just 24 h of HEK293 culture but the organ is already recognizable. KIT Karlsruhe

You are a young female scientist conducting research in the field of (inter)active materials or know female rising stars in your community? Then check out our Woman Interactive Materials Award (WIMA) with prize money of over €15,000: dwi.rwth-aachen.de/seite/wima

'How inherent tissue heterogeneity might dictate cancer initiation in epithelia?'
Sharing our mini review on this, led by Sindhu BSSE, IISc
doi.org/10.1002/cso2.1…

Excited to share our latest paper in Nat Biomed Eng. With a #TissueGrinder we can dissociate biopsies and then use #RTDC and #AI to distinguish cancer from healthy tissue based on cell deformability and other physical parameters Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin FAU Erlangen-Nbg
nature.com/articles/s4155…

Interested in communication, marketing and health and life sciences? We are recruiting Health + Life Science Alliance in Heidelberg. Dynamic environment, nice city & great colleagues health-life-sciences.de/jobs/referent%… Please RT.

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We’ve been doing some crazy experiments tracking vast numbers of swarming locusts this week. A wee video from my phone. ⁦Universität Konstanz⁩ ⁦Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour⁩ ⁦Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior⁩

Our new publication on cell wall damage that increases macromolecular crowding effects in the Escherichia coli cytoplasm is now online! cell.com/iscience/fullt…

...wenn nach langen und wichtigen Diskussionen zum WissZeitVG dieses Ergebnis herauskommt, dann fängt man spätestens an, am Intellekt der Akteure zu zweifeln.
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3 Jahre maximale Postdoc-Phase ist keine Lösung, sondern verschärft das Problem.
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New preprint alert! PhD student Saranne J. Mitchell in our lab just uploaded the preprint-- ‘Voltage-dependent volume regulation controls epithelial cell extrusion and morphology’, at: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

We have an opening for a postdoc to investigate how tissue mechanics and hydraulics regulate mammalian follicle development and ovulation. Please contact me for further details. Application deadline: 31 May 2023.