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Franze Lab
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We are interested in the mechanobiology of the nervous system. @cam.ac.uk @fau.de @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social (MPZPM)
Congrats, Eva!
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Environmental stiffness regulates neuronal
maturation via Piezo1-mediated transthyretin activity.

My main postdoc paper is finally online!

Thanks to all the co-authors, the entire Franze lab and the Káradóttir lab.
@franzelab.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Environmental stiffness regulates neuronal maturation via Piezo1-mediated transthyretin activity - Nature Communications
How the environment regulates neuronal maturation during brain development is poorly understood. Here, Kreysing et al. identify brain stiffness as a key factor and determine a mechanotransduction path...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Great lab, highly recommended! And, even if I may be a bit biased, also the environment is pretty cool. #mechanobiology @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social (MPZPM)
We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you're interested in a fully funded PhD position in an amazing lab in the UK working at the interface of life and physical sciences, go for it! Warwick offers a vibrant scientific environment with a strong biophysics community. And Eva is just a great scientist and person!
The Chancellors Studentship is an excellent opportunity to do your PhD in the UK. If you are interested in doing your PhD at the interface between physics, neurobiology and mechanobiology, please get in touch.

warwick.ac.uk/services/dc/...
Warwick PGR Scholarship Competitions
warwick.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Thank you Dionn Hargreaves, Sarah Woolner & @dev-journal.bsky.social for highlighting our @sudimukherjee.bsky.social @franzelab.bsky.social preprint! Chuffed to see it engaged with through fresh eyes! 🙌

Interested in how mechanical & chemical signals shape tissue development? Give it a look!
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In preprints: unpicking chemical and mechanical crosstalk for axonal pathfinding

Dionn Hargreaves and Sarah Woolner @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social‬ discuss the #preprint from @evapillai.bsky.social‬ ‪@sudimukherjee.bsky.social‬ @franzelab.bsky.social‬ et al.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
June 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Thanks for picking our preprint and for this very nice prelight article!
In preprints: unpicking chemical and mechanical crosstalk for axonal pathfinding

Dionn Hargreaves and Sarah Woolner @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social‬ discuss the #preprint from @evapillai.bsky.social‬ ‪@sudimukherjee.bsky.social‬ @franzelab.bsky.social‬ et al.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
June 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Thanks a lot to @dev-journal.bsky.social and the Woolner lab for highlighting our recent preprint investigating how long-range chemical signals are regulated by tissue mechanics. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
In preprints: unpicking chemical and mechanical crosstalk for axonal pathfinding
The shaping of developing tissues is often thought of in terms of the chemical gradients that influence tissue morphology, and the mechanical landscape which results in bends, kinks and folds in the t...
journals.biologists.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Excited to announce the Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026!

Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated to Archaea.
April 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Happy to share our new publication in
@naturematerials.bsky.social
on mechanical cell competition! Great collaboration between our CAM team, Chavrier's and Doostmohammadi's. Special congrats
@luanger.bsky.social, @andreasschoenit.bsky.social, Siavash Monfared! 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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We are really proud to share the first 'Pre-Print' from the Storer lab driven by the fantastic Byron Mui, and co-lead by the innovative Kevin Chalut, on tissue mechanics, ECM and regeneration. A big thanks also to our collaborators in the Franze Lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hyaluronic Acid and Emergent Tissue Mechanics Orchestrate Digit Tip Regeneration
Tissue regeneration is a dynamic process requiring coordinated cell fate decisions to restore structure and function. For instance, the tips of human and rodent digits fully regrow after amputation, a...
www.biorxiv.org
January 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Want to engage with the #mechanobiology community? Why not join this group? Just drop me a DM and I´ll add you.
go.bsky.app/G5cQqYT
November 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM