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barrasa-fano.bsky.social
Postdoc at Mechanobiology&Tissue Engineering lab @KULeuven developing image analysis tools to get to know cells better. I did a PhD on 3D #TractionForceMicroscopy. ScienceCommunication coordinator at cebebelgica.es/en_GB/
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submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

#Mechanobiology community! Start writing your abstract and submit soon to join us at @cellmech2025.bsky.social in Leuven 🇧🇪 !! 👀👇🏻

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Caillier, @pwoakes.bsky.social et al. find that T cells form #integrin mediated focal adhesions to pull themselves through confined spaces. https://buff.ly/4jU4e9C In #Mechanobiology 2025: https://buff.ly/3EK0uaq

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Despite the current uncertainty of being a scientist, I am excited to share our manuscript demonstrating an interesting mechanism of how swirling motion of breast cancer cells align collagen fibers radially at the tumor-stroma interface to enable their invasion (1/11) @thechaudhurilab.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Hi, #mechanobiology community! 🇧🇪Join us in Belgium for the 10th Edition of @cellmech2025.bsky.social !! 👀Look at the list of speakers!! ... and there will be more exciting announcements soon... 🎨 And you can already submit your abstract 👍

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

From the teams of Hadi Nia, Rakesh Jain and Lance Munn, this Review defines the four physical hallmarks of cancers and discusses the methods and technologies for assessing each hallmark. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

How do cells translate molecular forces into mechanical actions? 🧬🔬💪 Our new research combines Traction Force Microscopy (TFM) with FRET-based tension sensors to uncover how focal adhesions manage vinculin tension and cellular traction. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

📚Today I've finished a beautiful book and I'm starting another one. 😍... and I've already found a lovely connection between them... Llego tarde @aberron.bsky.social, pero lo cojo con ganas 🙂

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Very useful toolbox for Abaqus-Matlab communication: nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentra... Until now I was using horrible Fortran user subroutines to write output files with displacements, stresses, forces, etc. Not needed anymore! 😍 🤓Using it for my collagen #TFM simulations...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 As promised, a thread on our new paper on @biorxivpreprint! First-authored by @icfortunato.bsky.social (experiments) & David Brückner (theory), under the guidance of @ehannezo.bsky.social, @xaviertrepat.bsky.social , and myself www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵⬇️ 1/20

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Last week I showed to MSc students this iconic movie of a #leukocyte chasing a #bacteria, just wait... Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s ! (as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy) #CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social

submitted 85 days ago • 8 comments

✈️🇪🇺 If you are a researcher planning to come to Europe you should listen to this episode 🎧 I also highly recommend following @bioeng-talk.bsky.social and listening to the previous episodes. I sometimes join them and say things. 👇🏽

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Pre-announcing the 10th Biennial European CellMech conference organized in Leuven 🇧🇪 from September 30th to October 3rd, 2025. cellmech2025.org Save the date !

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

I love seeing stories published back to back. One of my favourite duos 👇I wish there was a ‘back story’ published by the teams….. @lammerdinglab.bsky.social

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

👋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

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

🕵🏼1 month ago we published in NatComm new insights on how #CCM vascular lesions are formed by mutated AND healthy ECs. Mutated "convince" healthy to join a lesion via: 💪🏼Forces 🛤️Paths in ECM 🧬Reprogramming #mechanobiology #TFM 👀 See Shapeti et al. here 👇🏼📰 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments