Our work on Trichoplax locomotion and mechanosensing capabilities is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social.
Congrats Marvin Leria & all co-authors!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1n8Ig3QW8S...
The kind of paper that makes you love this job. Amazing and very complete study!
Galvanin, a direct electric-field sensor during cell migration
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
✍️ The @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social published a new review
📖 @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social
📃 Biophysical principles of cell competition and elimination
🔗 buff.ly/eJQKhDi
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Ballistic Tongues!👅👅👅
Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology!
The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?
We present a new mechanism for triggering the flocking transition in epithelia, involving extensile polar defects and domain walls. Very happy to share this work, done in great collaboration with the @luizaangheluta.bsky.social group.
preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.23339
📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar
📅 June 12th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod
Invited by the @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social Lab, @lblanchoin.bsky.social and @manuelthery.bsky.social will present the IJM seminar "The self-renewing cell: how actin networks are built, sized, and dismantled "
➡️ buff.ly/T8li591
Benoit Ladoux
Video
Happy to share our new review on biophysical principles of cell competition and elimination:
www.cell.com/trends/cell-...
With @bladoux.bsky.social and @rmmege.bsky.social, we discuss mechanical fitness, how loser cells are removed through various strategies and how forces can effect their fate
Raphaël Clément
Registration for the Cell Biology and Cancer course at Institut Curie is now open! Explore how biological forms emerge across scales, from intracellular organization to tissues.
📅 November 16th-20th, 2026 (Paris)
⏳ Deadline: September 10th, 2026
🔗 training.institut-curie.org/cours/biolog...
Institut Jacques Monod
The @sfb1348.bsky.social Meeting “Mechanochemical Signals at Cellular Interfaces” is just around the corner! We are excited to welcome an outstanding lineup of international speakers to #Münster for three days of inspiring scientific exchange and discussion. @uni-muenster.de
Institut Jacques Monod
Stig Ove Bøe
Current Biology
Henry De Belly
www.biorxiv.org
Andreas Schoenit
Institut Curie
SFB 1348
this review topic is so metal. and also very @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🤘
one thing i didn't appreciate is that one advantage of "ballistic tongues" is that they operate over a broader temperature range than muscle shortening action.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Zeng and Deban provide an overview of ballistic tongues in three vertebrates, highlighting
similarities and differences in launch and retraction mechanisms, ecological advantages,
evolutionary history...
