Very happy to share our new preprint by Luciano Marine on the role of in-plane and out-of-plane curvatures on epithelial monolayers in 3D microwells biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Welcome Eloisa Torchia 🇮🇹 in our lab @umons 🇧🇪 ! More than happy to start this collaboration with Francesco Pasqualini 🤩

Our manuscript about the migration of fish epithelial keratocytes against the flow is out in PNASNews ! Great collaboration between @umons and Olivier Théodoly at Marseille pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Many congratulations to Anthony Procès Anthony Procès for successfully defending his PhD Thesis on mechanically-activated microglial cells, with his 1 year son in the audience ! 👏🏻🥳 Thanks to Laurent Nguyen Laurent Nguyen and Fred Saudou Saudou Frédéric for the great discussion !

I am excited to give a seminar Mechanobiology Institute about the mechanobiology of epithelial cells. Thanks Tsuyoshi Hirashima for inviting us with Luciano Marine to spend a month in Singapore !

Back to the bench this morning at Mechanobiology Institute Singapore with Luciano Marine and on the first day the Hirashima’s lab Tsuyoshi Hirashima has beautiful wavy hydrogels 👏🏻🔬

First time-lapse on MDCK epithelial cells that experience curvature changes on corrugated hydrogels in the Hirashima’s lab Tsuyoshi Hirashima at MBI Mechanobiology Institute, with advices from Luciano Marine 🤩🔬

What happens to the #nucleus in a tight squeeze? Check out our latest work in Communications Biology! With Dr. Archa Fox and Yu Suk CHOI teams, we show that #confinement can drive the formation and polarization of paraspeckle condensates #OpenAccess -LY rdcu.be/c4NUC

Happy to share our last paper 'Technical insights into fluorescence lifetime microscopy of mechanosensitive Flipper probes' characterizing in depth the Flipper probes. If you are curious to try it out, it constitute a complete guide with insights 🤓🤓 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our paper is now published! Why only a subset of neighboring cells divide to compensate for apoptotic cell loss? Inhomogeneous YAP-mediated mechanotransduction accounts for selecting cells for division. authors.elsevier.com/a/1gbyW5Sx5gtw… Great collab w/ Benoit Ladoux, @TPBGMBI, & J.Prost!

Very happy to share this arXiv.org paper presenting a minimal physical model for curvotaxis. A great collaboration with Nir Gov’s group, Luciano Marine and more 👇🏼 arxiv.org/abs/2304.09934

Great moment with colleagues for the GDR AQV days at l’île d’oléron ☺️

Congratulations to Marine Luciano Luciano Marine for receiving an F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral grant to support her studies on cell mechanobiology in my lab @umons ! 👏🏻🥳 #proudPI

Check out our last story in Adv Health Mat on the mechanoresponse of curved epithelial monolayers lining bowl-shaped 3D microwells by Marine Luciano Luciano Marine & Marie Versaevel Versaevel Marie 👇🏼 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Together with ⁩Caterina Tomba, Marine Luciano and Sylvain GABRIELE, we reviewed the implications of curvature for cellular processes. How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions | Nature Reviews Physics nature.com/articles/s4225…

Our Review on multiscale curvature is out in Nature Reviews Physics with Luciano Marine, Caterina Tomba and Roux Lab : How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions ? rdcu.be/dADWz

🚨 How do cells migrate when exposed to curvature cues? We addressed this question using a minimal model developed by Raj Kumar Sadhu & Nir Gov and various curved systems by Luciano Marine, Benoit Ladoux and others PNASNews 👇🏼 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🔬 Une équipe de scientifiques de l'UMONS étudie le lien entre les courbures des tissus humains et l’apparition de pathologies telles que les métastases. Luciano Marine Sylvain Gabriele Roux Lab Caterina Tomba web.umons.ac.be/fr/des-cherche…

🚨Our paper on the confined migration of autonomous cell clusters is now out in Nature Physics 👏 Wonderful collaboration with Edouard Hannezo David Brückner Xavier Trepat and incredible work by Eleonore Vercruysse with Luciano Marine and Kalukula Yohalie Université de Mons nature.com/articles/s4156…

📢 Do cells migrating on a confined environment have a mechanical memory of their previous state ? We tried to answer this question in our new preprint 👇🏼 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… an outstanding work by Kalukula Yohalie and very great collab with David Brückner