Ben Fabry
@BenFabryErl
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Biophysicist with a focus on the mechanobiology of cells, tissue and penguins
Erlangen, Germany
Joined March 2012
RT @NaturePortfolio: The number of emperor penguins in the Bellingshausen and Weddell Sea declined by 22% over the period 2009-23, a reduct….
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Few of you know that my lab is also active in whale research. That's why I’m urging you to sign the petition to free anti-whaling activist Paul Watson. Denmark may extradite him to Japan, where he faces a 15-year prison sentence.
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RT @EBM_research: 💡❗️Check out this new EBM #OpenAccess publication on "Dynamic traction force measurements of migrating immune cells in 3D….
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Nature Physics - Immune cells are believed not to generate large traction forces during migration. Now, measurements of natural killer cells in dense tissue reveal bursts of large traction forces...
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Thrilled to share that our paper on 3D traction force measurements of migrating immune cells (and growing axon growth cones) is now published in Nature Physics: Huge thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen!
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RT @LammerdingLab: #Postdoc Opportunity: Do you love #mechanobiology, #microscopy, and #cellmigration? Join our team at @CornellBME and @we….
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RT @christophmark_: This year's Physics of Cancer symposium in Leipzig will be from 30. Sept. - Oct. 02. Focus sessions will be:.- Cell and….
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Join our international research project with Thomas Boudou's group (CNRS - Univ. Grenoble) as a PhD student (physics, biophysics, biology). Topic: fibrotic disease progression driven by mechanical dysregulation. Apply now!
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The annual Physics of Cancer meeting in Leipzig has been my favorite meeting for the past 14 years. The 15th installment will be from 30. Sept. - Oct. 02. Mark your calendars.
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It is great to be back in Antarctica doing penguin research. Avian flu has not arrived here yet, but elsewhere in Antarctica, and we are very concerned. Emperor penguins are already at risk from global warming and really don't need any more threats.
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RT @pwoakes: Our latest preprint is up! Ever wonder about the mechanics of immune cell migration? Come check out our new work from postdoc….
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Immune cells are highly dynamic and able to migrate through environments with diverse biochemical and mechanical composition. Their migration has classically been defined as amoeboid under the...
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RT @RaimonSunyer: Just wrapped up the #CellMech2023 meeting. It was a great experience. Here are some highlights from the talks I attended.….
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RT @Tabdanov: Extremely proud of our Ph.D. student, @YerbolTagay, who just published his first-author paper. We determined that #microtubul….
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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
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Summer school "Mechanics in Biology" at Loch Lomond in action. A wonderful group of students and a perfect location, thank you so much, Massimo Vassalli @MassiVassi and Mathis Riehle @morenorse, for making this possible.
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RT @GeraldineONei20: Preprint from the #CCRUs FAB team. Co-culturing brain cancer cells with PSC-derived organoids: is it worth the effort?….
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Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPGs) are deadly brain cancers in children for which there is currently no effective treatment. This can partly be attributed to preclinical models that lack...
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RT @adameykolab: After 7 years of experimentation, we are coming up with a story about what directs orientation of muscles in the body. We….
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To overcome obstacles during migration through a porous extracellular matrix, (almost) all types of immune cells intermittently employ large to very large integrin-mediated traction forces.
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To reach targets outside the bloodstream, immune cells can extravasate and migrate through connective tissue. However, in contrast to migrating mesenchymal cells, the importance of matrix adhesion...
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“Mechanics in Biology” Summer School in Loch Lomond (Scotland), June 4-9, 2023, with hands-on training in AFM, shear rheology, traction microscopy, ion conductivity microscopy, whiskey distillation, etc.
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RT @GeitmannLab: Interested in doing a PhD on the structural and mechanical aspects of plant growth and development?. Got a background in p….
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25 years ago, Dan Tschumperlin and Susan Margulies published their landmark paper on the effects of mechanical stretch on lung epithelial cells, explaining the mechanism of ventilator-induced lung injury at the cellular level.
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