Ever wonder what happens to immune cells when we get a fever? Exicted to share our paper showing that temperature regulates immune cell migration via myosinII! A wonderful collaboration with Ivan, @alempheius.bsky.social, @valeriaventurini.bsky.social & all co-authors!

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🎉🎉 We finally have a website! 🎉🎉

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📣Announcing the 4th edition of the EMBL‑IBEC Conference on “Engineering Multicellular Systems”, taking place 11–13 March 2026 in Barcelona. Exploring organoids, mechanobiology, embryo models, organ-on-chip systems, multiomics and more. Abstracts open now!
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Our ForSys method to infer the mechanical state of a tissue in space and time is published now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social !
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1/ 🎉Excited to share our new preprint @vignjeviclab.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social :

"Self-organization of tumor heterogeneity and plasticity"
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Tumor heterogeneity and plasticity drive metastasis and relapse. How is tumor patterning coordinated?

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See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

Ever wondered how to control stretch/compression in your epithelial system? Do you know why it’s important, which mechanotransduction mechanisms could be involved? I am @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and today I will guide you through this journey.

Nature research paper: Energy deficiency selects crowded live epithelial cells for extrusion

go.nature.com/42tmu2l

Palestina, la Facultat 18 de la Universitat de Barcelona - Actualitat - Universitat de Barcelona web.ub.edu/web/actualit...

Checkout the outcome of a great collaboration & to know how ATP can help cells dealing with confinement. Happy I could contribute to this nice work!

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We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.

Deadline: 30/09/25👇

Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus

We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social, working alongside Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...

Checkout the new (amazing🤩) preprint from @pauguillamat.bsky.social !!

Let's talk about a party—where drugs don't hit the dance floor but finely tune #EpithelialMechanics by hitting actomyosin cortex! 🧬💊
Here's our guide to doing drugs 🧵

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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!

Want to compress cells? Want to know how to do it, which mechanism could sense compression or wondering why should you compress cells? Checkout our review to know more about that!!