Sylvain Gabriele
@sgabriele.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Mons
Mechanobiology & Biomaterials group
https://www.cellmechanobiology.com
Mechanobiology & Biomaterials group
https://www.cellmechanobiology.com
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Sylvain Gabriele
@sgabriele.bsky.social
· Aug 25
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
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 place to be 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
We're looking for highly motivated candidates for PhD positions in the physics of living systems.
Our group uses theoretical physics to understand how cells collectively self-organize.
If you're interested, get in touch & check out the Biozentrum PhD Fellowship program, deadline October 12th!
Our group uses theoretical physics to understand how cells collectively self-organize.
If you're interested, get in touch & check out the Biozentrum PhD Fellowship program, deadline October 12th!
Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland
September 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The place to be 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
I am delighted to share that I have been awarded the Francqui Research Professorship 🥳 This achievement is above all a collective success and I sincerely thank all the researchers of my lab www.cellmechanobiology.com, past and present, for their incredible work!
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Sylvain Gabriele nommé « Professeur de recherche Francqui » pour la période 2025-2028 - Faculté / FS
La Fondation Francqui a sélectionné Sylvain Gabriele, chargé de cours au Département de Chimie de la Faculté des Sciences de l’UMONS, pour le prestigieux mandat de Professeur de recherche Francqui. Ce...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I am delighted to share that I have been awarded the Francqui Research Professorship 🥳 This achievement is above all a collective success and I sincerely thank all the researchers of my lab www.cellmechanobiology.com, past and present, for their incredible work!
web.umons.ac.be/fs/fr/sylvai...
web.umons.ac.be/fs/fr/sylvai...
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New preprint! 🚨 We uncover a slow adaptation to stretch that links star-bundling of keratin filaments with nuclear escape from its keratin cage. Led by @tomgolde.bsky.social 🙌
@IBECBarcelona
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@IBECBarcelona
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New preprint! 🚨 We uncover a slow adaptation to stretch that links star-bundling of keratin filaments with nuclear escape from its keratin cage. Led by @tomgolde.bsky.social 🙌
@IBECBarcelona
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@IBECBarcelona
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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...
Reposted by Sylvain Gabriele
New preprint out! We show how cellular nematic order can be harnessed to program tissue-wide force fields and guide 3D shape transformations.
The tissue morphogenesis logic, now engineered into living, programmable materials.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ActiveMatter #TissueEngineering
The tissue morphogenesis logic, now engineered into living, programmable materials.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ActiveMatter #TissueEngineering
June 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
New preprint out! We show how cellular nematic order can be harnessed to program tissue-wide force fields and guide 3D shape transformations.
The tissue morphogenesis logic, now engineered into living, programmable materials.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ActiveMatter #TissueEngineering
The tissue morphogenesis logic, now engineered into living, programmable materials.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ActiveMatter #TissueEngineering
🔬 Excited to share our new publication in Soft Matter about hydrogel dimensionality to investigate mechanobiology. This paper with @marineluciano.bsky.social is part of the themed collection “Pioneering Investigators” - Lab website : www.cellmechanobiology.com
👉🏼 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
👉🏼 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
June 4, 2025 at 6:19 AM
🔬 Excited to share our new publication in Soft Matter about hydrogel dimensionality to investigate mechanobiology. This paper with @marineluciano.bsky.social is part of the themed collection “Pioneering Investigators” - Lab website : www.cellmechanobiology.com
👉🏼 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
👉🏼 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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🚨 Exciting News! As we count down to #CellMech2025, we’re highlighting our incredible keynote speakers! 🌟
(1/2)
Meet @sarawickstrom.bsky.social ! 🧬🔬 Director at MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, she explores how mechanical forces shape and maintain epithelial tissues.
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Meet @sarawickstrom.bsky.social ! 🧬🔬 Director at MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, she explores how mechanical forces shape and maintain epithelial tissues.
May 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
My lab is co-organizing the CellMech2025 conference @cellmech2025.bsky.social. I’m excited to announce that the scientific program is now online!
👉🏼 cellmech2025.org/programme/
There’s still time to submit your abstract for the Scientific Art Contest and compete for prizes !
👉🏼 cellmech2025.org/programme/
There’s still time to submit your abstract for the Scientific Art Contest and compete for prizes !
May 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My lab is co-organizing the CellMech2025 conference @cellmech2025.bsky.social. I’m excited to announce that the scientific program is now online!
👉🏼 cellmech2025.org/programme/
There’s still time to submit your abstract for the Scientific Art Contest and compete for prizes !
👉🏼 cellmech2025.org/programme/
There’s still time to submit your abstract for the Scientific Art Contest and compete for prizes !
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 6:41 AM
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/...
Reposted by Sylvain Gabriele
Luciano, M., Tomba, C., Roux, A., & Gabriele, S. (2024). How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions. Nature Reviews Physics, #EpithelialMechanicsReveiw
How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions - Nature Reviews Physics
Structure and function of biological tissues are closely intertwined. This Review surveys the challenges in uncovering critical physical elements involved in the mechanical regulation of curved tissue...
www.nature.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Luciano, M., Tomba, C., Roux, A., & Gabriele, S. (2024). How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions. Nature Reviews Physics, #EpithelialMechanicsReveiw
Reposted by Sylvain Gabriele
Paper 1: @sgabriele.bsky.social lab placed cells on wavy substrates (20-50µm) to demonstrate the impact of curvature on cell thickness ➡️ nudging nucleus shape ➡️ revealing mechanoadaptation.
March 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Paper 1: @sgabriele.bsky.social lab placed cells on wavy substrates (20-50µm) to demonstrate the impact of curvature on cell thickness ➡️ nudging nucleus shape ➡️ revealing mechanoadaptation.
Reposted by Sylvain Gabriele
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...
@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
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...
@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...
🚨Only a few hours left to register for @cellmech2025.bsky.social, deadline by March 16, 2025 ! 👇🏼
March 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🚨Only a few hours left to register for @cellmech2025.bsky.social, deadline by March 16, 2025 ! 👇🏼
Time is flying, hurry up guys !
4 more days to submit your abstract!! Don't miss the opportunity to come to Leuven and enjoy 4 days of #Mechanobiology:
🗣️ 15 amazing keynote speakers
🎤 Oral talks and poster sessions
📷 SciArt contest
🍻 Social activities
👉 Submit by 2nd March!! https://buff.ly/3CH94pW
🗣️ 15 amazing keynote speakers
🎤 Oral talks and poster sessions
📷 SciArt contest
🍻 Social activities
👉 Submit by 2nd March!! https://buff.ly/3CH94pW
February 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Time is flying, hurry up guys !
Reposted by Sylvain Gabriele
⚠️⏳ 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/
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 👇🏼
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 7:20 AM
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
The 10th edition of CellMech 2025, which my lab is co-organizing in Sept-Oct ‘25, has officially opened the abstract submission portal! cellmech2025.org
We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers, who will help us to make this conference a major event in mechanobiology!
We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers, who will help us to make this conference a major event in mechanobiology!
February 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The 10th edition of CellMech 2025, which my lab is co-organizing in Sept-Oct ‘25, has officially opened the abstract submission portal! cellmech2025.org
We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers, who will help us to make this conference a major event in mechanobiology!
We are thrilled to announce our amazing list of keynote speakers, who will help us to make this conference a major event in mechanobiology!
Reposted by Sylvain Gabriele
Thrilled to share our new preprint on detecting the nematic orientation field on surfaces of 3D multicellular systems!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge thanks to all authors: @tobyandrews.bsky.social,Joe Pollard, @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @yap-lab.bsky.social &Richard Morris
Any 3D systems?👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge thanks to all authors: @tobyandrews.bsky.social,Joe Pollard, @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @yap-lab.bsky.social &Richard Morris
Any 3D systems?👇
January 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thrilled to share our new preprint on detecting the nematic orientation field on surfaces of 3D multicellular systems!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge thanks to all authors: @tobyandrews.bsky.social,Joe Pollard, @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @yap-lab.bsky.social &Richard Morris
Any 3D systems?👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge thanks to all authors: @tobyandrews.bsky.social,Joe Pollard, @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @yap-lab.bsky.social &Richard Morris
Any 3D systems?👇
Reposted by Sylvain Gabriele
Yamini @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social changed the topology of Hydra to show that actin orientational defects of Hydra induce the full program of head regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mechanics controls development! Thanks to Dan Pearce, Karsten Kruse, Matthias Vogg & Brigitte Galliot.
Mechanics controls development! Thanks to Dan Pearce, Karsten Kruse, Matthias Vogg & Brigitte Galliot.
January 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Yamini @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social changed the topology of Hydra to show that actin orientational defects of Hydra induce the full program of head regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mechanics controls development! Thanks to Dan Pearce, Karsten Kruse, Matthias Vogg & Brigitte Galliot.
Mechanics controls development! Thanks to Dan Pearce, Karsten Kruse, Matthias Vogg & Brigitte Galliot.
Reposted by Sylvain Gabriele
And here is pre-print 2/2! *HYDRA: HYdrogel Dispensing with Robotic Automation* - a scalable solution for drug testing. Great work by 1st author
@eloisa_torchia and team with help from the labs of
@sgabriele.bsky.social Elisa Cimetta and Johan Lind biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@eloisa_torchia and team with help from the labs of
@sgabriele.bsky.social Elisa Cimetta and Johan Lind biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
And here is pre-print 2/2! *HYDRA: HYdrogel Dispensing with Robotic Automation* - a scalable solution for drug testing. Great work by 1st author
@eloisa_torchia and team with help from the labs of
@sgabriele.bsky.social Elisa Cimetta and Johan Lind biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@eloisa_torchia and team with help from the labs of
@sgabriele.bsky.social Elisa Cimetta and Johan Lind biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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 !
Season’s greetings and happy holidays from the Mechanobiology & Biomaterials group at the University of Mons
December 21, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Season’s greetings and happy holidays from the Mechanobiology & Biomaterials group at the University of Mons
Reposted by Sylvain Gabriele
Really bummed to have missed ASCB this year due to some last-minute circumstances, but excited that our manuscript describing an IF disassembly tool will (hopefully) be posted soon. Here's a movie of vimentin color-coded by orientation.
December 18, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Really bummed to have missed ASCB this year due to some last-minute circumstances, but excited that our manuscript describing an IF disassembly tool will (hopefully) be posted soon. Here's a movie of vimentin color-coded by orientation.
Super cool study 🤩
🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Self-organized patterning of crocodile head scales by compressive folding - Nature
Crocodile head scales self-organize through purely mechanical compressive skin folding rather than a patterning process controlled by gene interactions.
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Super cool study 🤩