Happy to proudly share that my first first-author work is finally published @NatureComms https://t.co/tSH09JYKvV. A lot of sweat and tears went into this and I hope our findings on the role of cell forces in recruitment of cells in the context of CCMs make for an enjoyable read.

😍 🩷 A little sneak peak of #cellmech2025

🔥 ... aaand the day has come!!! Welcome to #cellmech2025 !!!!!!!!!!! 🩷

👋🌞 Hey everyone! Some of you may be on holidays, but here we are still working to make #cellmech2025 the best experience for you! 🚄 ✈️ Did you already book your trip to Leuven?? 💸 Remember that we have special travel fares for flights and trains! https://t.co/ku9iAQVCXU

🚨 Exciting News! As we count down to #CellMech2025, we’re highlighting our incredible keynote speakers! 🌟 (1/2) 🧫🔬@gijsjekoenderi1, expert in soft matter physics, explores how living cells combine mechanical strength with force generation & shape changes.

🚨 Exciting News! As we count down to #CellMech2025, we’re highlighting our incredible keynote speakers! 🌟 (1/2) 🔬📈 @EdouardHannezo explores how biological systems self-organize, from cytoskeletal forces to organ architecture !

🏯 😍 Our conference will take place at the KULeuven University Hall !! But this beautiful building has gone through a lot... do you want to know about it? Thread! 🧵 👇 (1/5)

🚨 📈 Exciting news! 😰 Did you run out of time to submit an abstract?? Are you still waiting for your PI´s feedback on your abstract?? Guess what!? Yes! We´ve extended the abstract submission deadline for CellMech 2025, until March 16!! Hurry up!! 👉

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Today, we are celebrating #WomeninScience! 👩‍🔬👩‍💻👩‍💼 Thank you so much for all your hard work in understanding cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) and helping to find a cure for us patients! #cavernoma #kavernom #CavernousMalformation #CavernousAngioma

🚨 We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers!! @PCusachs @GeorgHalder @hirashima0203 @dagmarIber @johannaivaska @gijsjekoenderi1 @neuroliege @renkawitzteam @Sixt_Lab @VickySanzMoreno Kit Parker @EdouardHannezo @creinhartking @WickstromLab @MEmilieTerret

International Conference on Vascular Anomalies: Translating basic research into new therapies (VAC 2025)! : https://t.co/d08M35d9T2. Congress networking dinner nearly sold out! Few seats left for congress participation. https://t.co/MfI2O19Hdq #VASCAPA #HEVAS #CMTC #EVBO #ISSVA

Looking forward to all the great science here and also sharing our own work!

So frustrated with for-profit journals! @NaturePortfolio @ScienceMagazine @SpringerNature we pay tons of money for publishing, and review for you for free! Yet, you won't use even a small part of your profit to support our conferences! As GRC organizer I find it outrageous! 1/3

Always an honor to represent women scientists, share my passion for interdisciplinary science, communicate my research with the public, and promote my vision (2:29) for a gender-balanced future of academia. Thanks @Be_Women_Sci @SoapboxscienceB!

You will also find us elsewhere 🦋

Thank you @BPoD_s for this feature! A correction though: these are CCM mutant cells (green) and not cancerous cells. There are parallels between CCM lesion and cancer mechanisms, but this is a CCM mutant cell pulling a non-mutant, “healthy” cell (red).

Happy to announce that our lab website is up and running. Our vision of controlling tissue organization and probing its mechanics is rather magnetic 🧲⚙️🧫🧬! #mechanobiology 👉

The most recent preprint from our most recent PhD graduate Dr Nicolas Pasquier. Orientation of mucinous CRC apicobasal polarity is regulated by tumor-stroma interactions. This work was a collaboration with @JaulinLab at the Gustave Roussy Institute. https://t.co/eDkR7NrzdS

👀 The always hypnotizing foam simulations of two cell spheroids fusing of @BartSmeets16 at #BSTE2024

❄️ Beautiful day and location to start #BSTE2024 Today I'll be presenting a 'duet' oral talk with @apek_shapeti 😍