Giuseppe Ciccone
@giusciccone.bsky.social
Life Sciences Associate Consultant
Ex Post Doc in the Microenvironments for Medicine Group @ IBEC 🇪🇸 and Mechanobiology & Biomaterials Group @ UMONS 🇧🇪
Ex Post Doc in the Microenvironments for Medicine Group @ IBEC 🇪🇸 and Mechanobiology & Biomaterials Group @ UMONS 🇧🇪
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Giuseppe Ciccone
@giusciccone.bsky.social
· Feb 17
Check out our latest paper in Advanced Science 🥳, where we use viscoelastic hydrogels to better understand how spatial confinement and matrix viscoelasticity jointly regulate cell migration: lnkd.in/diRstW2B Great collaboration between UMONS and @giusciccone.bsky.social @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social
Very happy to share the final version of our work, out in #AdvancedScience!
Amazing work led by Mariana! Go read it if you’re interested in viscoelasticity of the ECM, the molecular clutch and Piezo1 #mechanobiology
Excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications! We show how Piezo1 and the molecular clutch work together to sense viscoelastic cues in stem cells. Grateful to my mentors and co-authors from @uofglasgow.bsky.social & @ibecbarcelona.eu who made this possible! Check it out: rdcu.be/eK8d4
Piezo1 regulates the mechanotransduction of soft matrix viscoelasticity
Nature Communications - Matrix viscoelasticity regulates cell behavior in a stiffness-dependent manner. Here, the authors reveal that the mechanosensitive channel Piezo1 transduces soft matrix...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Amazing work led by Mariana! Go read it if you’re interested in viscoelasticity of the ECM, the molecular clutch and Piezo1 #mechanobiology
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Excited to share our new publication in Nature Physics about the mechanical memory of morphology in confined migrating cells by @kyohalie.bsky.social 🥳
Super fun collab with @davidbrueckner.bsky.social and @gcharras.bsky.social 👏🏻
Enjoy the reading www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Super fun collab with @davidbrueckner.bsky.social and @gcharras.bsky.social 👏🏻
Enjoy the reading www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The actin cortex acts as a mechanical memory of morphology in confined migrating cells - Nature Physics
Cells often navigate through confined spaces. Now it is shown that cells retain a mechanical memory of previous confinement events, which makes them more efficient at migrating through narrow microenv...
www.nature.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Excited to share our new publication in Nature Physics about the mechanical memory of morphology in confined migrating cells by @kyohalie.bsky.social 🥳
Super fun collab with @davidbrueckner.bsky.social and @gcharras.bsky.social 👏🏻
Enjoy the reading www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Super fun collab with @davidbrueckner.bsky.social and @gcharras.bsky.social 👏🏻
Enjoy the reading www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Do you use #PAAm #hydrogels in your #mechanobiology research? If so, check out our mini review where we discuss advances in cell mechanobiology made using these systems. We discuss protein micropatterning, mechanical patterning, stretching, DNA tension probes, viscoelasticity, and 3D systems!
June 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Do you use #PAAm #hydrogels in your #mechanobiology research? If so, check out our mini review where we discuss advances in cell mechanobiology made using these systems. We discuss protein micropatterning, mechanical patterning, stretching, DNA tension probes, viscoelasticity, and 3D systems!
Super interesting work from the lab in Mons! Have a read if you want to learn how sea stars dynamically control their locomotion! ⭐️
Have you ever wondered what happens when a sea star carries a backpack full of beads? You can now find out: « Tube feet dynamics drive adaptation in sean star locomotion » www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
April 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Super interesting work from the lab in Mons! Have a read if you want to learn how sea stars dynamically control their locomotion! ⭐️
Reposted by Giuseppe Ciccone
Interested in how cells respond when squeezed? Check the review paper just published by Laura Faure, @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and myself on this. Really thorough and clear revision by Laura and Valeria!
In their Review, Laura Faure, Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and Pere Roca-Cusachs discuss the biological contexts of cell mechanical compression, the associated mechanisms and the experimental systems engineered to compress cells in vitro.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
April 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Interested in how cells respond when squeezed? Check the review paper just published by Laura Faure, @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and myself on this. Really thorough and clear revision by Laura and Valeria!
Reposted by Giuseppe Ciccone
In their Review, Laura Faure, Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and Pere Roca-Cusachs discuss the biological contexts of cell mechanical compression, the associated mechanisms and the experimental systems engineered to compress cells in vitro.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
March 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In their Review, Laura Faure, Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and Pere Roca-Cusachs discuss the biological contexts of cell mechanical compression, the associated mechanisms and the experimental systems engineered to compress cells in vitro.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Reposted by Giuseppe Ciccone
🚨 📈 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!! 👉
😰 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!! 👉
Abstracts
When submitting your abstract, please indicate which topic(s) from the list best suit(s) your submission. This is to assist with the review process and the creation of the conference program itself.
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🚨 📈 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!! 👉
😰 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!! 👉
www.linkedin.com/posts/manuel...
Get in touch if interested in joining our team in Barcelona! @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social @ibecbarcelona.eu
Get in touch if interested in joining our team in Barcelona! @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social @ibecbarcelona.eu
Manuel Salmeron on LinkedIn: We are recruiting two fully funded PhD students in Barcelona - Institute…
We are recruiting two fully funded PhD students in Barcelona - Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). Projects around hydrogels for cell engineering…
www.linkedin.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
www.linkedin.com/posts/manuel...
Get in touch if interested in joining our team in Barcelona! @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social @ibecbarcelona.eu
Get in touch if interested in joining our team in Barcelona! @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social @ibecbarcelona.eu
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⚠️⏳ There are less than 2 weeks left to submit your abstract!!
Hurry up and submit here! 👇🏻
cellmech2025.org/abstracts/
Hurry up and submit here! 👇🏻
cellmech2025.org/abstracts/
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February 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
⚠️⏳ There are less than 2 weeks left to submit your abstract!!
Hurry up and submit here! 👇🏻
cellmech2025.org/abstracts/
Hurry up and submit here! 👇🏻
cellmech2025.org/abstracts/
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Join us online on Tuesday, February 25, for this exciting DGZ workshop on #celladhesion and #mechanobiology 👇🏼
Next #DGZ Focus Workshop on #CellAdhesion and #Mechanobiology on Feb 25, organized by Andrew Clark and @adacavalcanti.bsky.social - see you there!
February 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Join us online on Tuesday, February 25, for this exciting DGZ workshop on #celladhesion and #mechanobiology 👇🏼
Very happy to share the final version of our work, out in #AdvancedScience!
Check out our latest paper in Advanced Science 🥳, where we use viscoelastic hydrogels to better understand how spatial confinement and matrix viscoelasticity jointly regulate cell migration: lnkd.in/diRstW2B Great collaboration between UMONS and @giusciccone.bsky.social @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Very happy to share the final version of our work, out in #AdvancedScience!
Reposted by Giuseppe Ciccone
🚨 We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers!!
@PCusachs
@GeorgHalder
@hirashima0203.bsky.social
@iberd.bsky.social
@johannaivaska.bsky.social
@gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social
@laurentnguyen.com
@renkawitzteam.bsky.social
@Sixt_Lab
...
@PCusachs
@GeorgHalder
@hirashima0203.bsky.social
@iberd.bsky.social
@johannaivaska.bsky.social
@gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social
@laurentnguyen.com
@renkawitzteam.bsky.social
@Sixt_Lab
...
February 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🚨 We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers!!
@PCusachs
@GeorgHalder
@hirashima0203.bsky.social
@iberd.bsky.social
@johannaivaska.bsky.social
@gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social
@laurentnguyen.com
@renkawitzteam.bsky.social
@Sixt_Lab
...
@PCusachs
@GeorgHalder
@hirashima0203.bsky.social
@iberd.bsky.social
@johannaivaska.bsky.social
@gijsjekoenderink.bsky.social
@laurentnguyen.com
@renkawitzteam.bsky.social
@Sixt_Lab
...
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Really looking forward to visit the Salmeron’s lab at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia @ibecbarcelona.eu at Barcelona tomorrow ! Thanks to @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social and @giusciccone.bsky.social for their kind invitation !
January 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Really looking forward to visit the Salmeron’s lab at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia @ibecbarcelona.eu at Barcelona tomorrow ! Thanks to @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social and @giusciccone.bsky.social for their kind invitation !
Very exciting!
👋Hello #mechanobiology community in 🦋!
This is the official account of the 10th Edition of the Cell Mech conference!
🔧We will soon announce the invited speaker list! Visit our website, subscribe to the mailing list, and follow us!:
cellmech2025.org
😍Join us in Leuven 2025!
This is the official account of the 10th Edition of the Cell Mech conference!
🔧We will soon announce the invited speaker list! Visit our website, subscribe to the mailing list, and follow us!:
cellmech2025.org
😍Join us in Leuven 2025!
The organizing committee, Sylvain Gabriele, Marine Luciano, Jorge Barrasa Fano, Yohalie Kalukula, Bart Smeets, Apeksha Shapeti, Hans Van Oosterwyck
cellmech2025.org
December 10, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Very exciting!
Great #mechanobiology meeting in London! Thanks everyone for sharing their impressive science, and thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to share some of our own work!
December 6, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Great #mechanobiology meeting in London! Thanks everyone for sharing their impressive science, and thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to share some of our own work!
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🎈New preprint! We study how single cells move up, down and about fibronectin gradients. Experiments by @icfortunato.bsky.social, theory by David Bruckner. Collaboration with @raimonsunyer.bsky.social and @ehannezo.bsky.social 👇https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.12.02.626413v1
December 3, 2024 at 9:18 AM
🎈New preprint! We study how single cells move up, down and about fibronectin gradients. Experiments by @icfortunato.bsky.social, theory by David Bruckner. Collaboration with @raimonsunyer.bsky.social and @ehannezo.bsky.social 👇https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.12.02.626413v1
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Pre-announcing the 10th Biennial European CellMech conference organized in Leuven 🇧🇪 from September 30th to October 3rd, 2025.
cellmech2025.org
Save the date !
cellmech2025.org
Save the date !
November 21, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Pre-announcing the 10th Biennial European CellMech conference organized in Leuven 🇧🇪 from September 30th to October 3rd, 2025.
cellmech2025.org
Save the date !
cellmech2025.org
Save the date !
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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
go.bsky.app/G5cQqYT
November 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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
go.bsky.app/G5cQqYT
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👋Hello #mechanobiology community!
Next year we are organizing the CellMech conference in Leuven!
We will soon be announcing (super amazing) invited speakers, registration deadlines, etc
I'll try to keep the🦋community updated, but best is to subscribe to the mailing list 📧👇
cellmech2025.org
Next year we are organizing the CellMech conference in Leuven!
We will soon be announcing (super amazing) invited speakers, registration deadlines, etc
I'll try to keep the🦋community updated, but best is to subscribe to the mailing list 📧👇
cellmech2025.org
November 20, 2024 at 9:12 AM
👋Hello #mechanobiology community!
Next year we are organizing the CellMech conference in Leuven!
We will soon be announcing (super amazing) invited speakers, registration deadlines, etc
I'll try to keep the🦋community updated, but best is to subscribe to the mailing list 📧👇
cellmech2025.org
Next year we are organizing the CellMech conference in Leuven!
We will soon be announcing (super amazing) invited speakers, registration deadlines, etc
I'll try to keep the🦋community updated, but best is to subscribe to the mailing list 📧👇
cellmech2025.org
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Starter Pack: Collective #CellMigration /Dynamics is growing. Looking at related emergent phenomena eg. #intercallation, dorsal closure or branching #morphogenesis? Reach out! Also modelers, soft-matter physicists & YOUNG scientists etc etc!
go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science
go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science
November 19, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Starter Pack: Collective #CellMigration /Dynamics is growing. Looking at related emergent phenomena eg. #intercallation, dorsal closure or branching #morphogenesis? Reach out! Also modelers, soft-matter physicists & YOUNG scientists etc etc!
go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science
go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science
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Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN
November 13, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Couldn't find one so made a quick physics of life list, enjoy! go.bsky.app/EA2VsDN
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Here's a starter pack that focuses on engineers/builders/makers/enablers of optical tools for (cell) biology.
I'm pretty sure that the pack is incomplete - if you want to join the list, please reply with your favorite probe (that you made or used) and I'll add you 🤓
go.bsky.app/2YVvYER
I'm pretty sure that the pack is incomplete - if you want to join the list, please reply with your favorite probe (that you made or used) and I'll add you 🤓
go.bsky.app/2YVvYER
November 11, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Here's a starter pack that focuses on engineers/builders/makers/enablers of optical tools for (cell) biology.
I'm pretty sure that the pack is incomplete - if you want to join the list, please reply with your favorite probe (that you made or used) and I'll add you 🤓
go.bsky.app/2YVvYER
I'm pretty sure that the pack is incomplete - if you want to join the list, please reply with your favorite probe (that you made or used) and I'll add you 🤓
go.bsky.app/2YVvYER
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Seeing lots of folks navigating over here in last few days (welcome!). Aggregating folks in the biomaterials & tissue eng. (+ adjacent) spaces that I see. Apologies if replicative. Let me know of others to add to this curated list (self-nom too!).
Here's to a new community! 🧪
go.bsky.app/AeG8FWr
Here's to a new community! 🧪
go.bsky.app/AeG8FWr
November 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Seeing lots of folks navigating over here in last few days (welcome!). Aggregating folks in the biomaterials & tissue eng. (+ adjacent) spaces that I see. Apologies if replicative. Let me know of others to add to this curated list (self-nom too!).
Here's to a new community! 🧪
go.bsky.app/AeG8FWr
Here's to a new community! 🧪
go.bsky.app/AeG8FWr
Reposted by Giuseppe Ciccone
Some people here may be interested in this other Starter Pack too: go.bsky.app/CtQMJyW
May you please include me in yours? Thanks
May you please include me in yours? Thanks
November 19, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Some people here may be interested in this other Starter Pack too: go.bsky.app/CtQMJyW
May you please include me in yours? Thanks
May you please include me in yours? Thanks
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A forum for all things related to the cellular microenvironment and its role in health and disease. Spread the voice and drop a message if you want to join!
go.bsky.app/jhvVHF
November 19, 2024 at 4:18 PM
A forum for all things related to the cellular microenvironment and its role in health and disease. Spread the voice and drop a message if you want to join!
go.bsky.app/jhvVHF