I will give a lecture, in MaP Distinguished Lecture Series on Engineering with Living Materials, ETH Zurich, titled Crack Growth in Soft Materials and Tissues 31 March 2025, Monday 11:15 (Boston) 16:15 (Zurich) The lecture will be online Zoom link:

I have been fooled by such images. They very much suggest that the balance of pulling forces along microtubules center the array. ...

A surprise gift of « new curve crease origami » we call Lacrygami brought to us by a single cell (this is the first example of origami in a single cell)!! Will write a longer thread shortly describing our journey to discovery - in mean time, enjoy this beautiful cell.

wow ! the specific tubulin centrioles and cilia are made off !!

Harriet Saunders, Cyntha van de Berg, et al. show how ciliary tip proteins cooperate to make slow growing #microtubules in their new preprint! Together they form a structure that looks like a champagne cork in a #microtubule 😍 https://t.co/RqYgxlpbAd

New from the @SandoghdarLab! μkiss is a micropipette-based approach for delivering very small amounts of nanoparticles and small molecules to the cell surface with exquisite spatiotemporal control, enabling a wide range of biological investigations. https://t.co/pQ8Os95zBk

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unvelievable but true. we did it! publish for free!

Did you know it's free to publish in Journal of Cell Science? No page charges, no colour charges, no hidden fees. We also offer Open Access options. If you're at #cellbio2023 and want to find out more, find us at booth 538.

Our structures of the #cardiac #sarcomere are now published in @Nature! With #teamtomo at @intein lab, we've used #CryoET to unveil how #myosin and #actin filaments arrange in #muscle relaxed with #mavacamten. Great collaboration with Gautel Lab! https://t.co/TZBGX8kWYw 🧵

Where does hematopoietic cell diversity come from? Asymmetric division is one of the answers. Can specific interactions govern the asymmetric division of the hematopoietic progenitors? Join me on my earliest journey!! Now on biorxiv!!!🧵🥰⬇️ https://t.co/rF0zsGnEmv

Registrations are open for an amazing course at the interface between physics and biology @institut_curie https://t.co/ZaEDeo036V

Centrosome linker diversity: #Ninein, #Rootletin & #CNap1 contribute specific functions to #centrosome clustering and spindle formation, some of which matter in cells with extra #centrosomes Laura Theile, Xue Li, Elmar Schiebel et al @UniHeidelberg https://t.co/kLkmFAwea3

🙌 Big thanks to our incredible team, @ManuelTHERY, and @Lblanchoin, for their collaboration and dedication to publishing our work in @NatureMaterials! It's a testament to our collective efforts in advancing microtubule mechano-sensation in vivo.

Microtubules are cellular mechano-sensors. They freeze in response to 10% cellular deformation. Read here the amazing work of @YuhuiLii now published in @NatureMaterials : https://t.co/ZubdUXQH1w

A nice program to celebrate 20 years of cell mechanics in Marseille, 26-29 sept 2023 https://t.co/ZvwBf6bWxM

Questions about the basic rules of life keep you awake at night? What define the cell size? What is the difference between two 10-micron long cells and a cell of 20 microns? What happen if we induce the fusion of the two cells? #ThisJobIsForYou

The CytoMorpho Lab is recruiting ! We have a two-year postdoc fellowship to study the scaling of actin-based structures in living cells. The position is available in Grenoble. https://t.co/qjkqtKw9dz please RT

Job alert! If you have a bioengineering or soft matter background, and expertise in biomaterials, nanomedicine, cell therapy and/or soft materials, come and join us! https://t.co/iBU555grps

even impressed when seeing it virtually