Excited to have my PhD work out! 💫 Huge thanks to the Ruprecht lab and especially to my wonderful co-first authors @laurafbianchi.bsky.social and @martabatetpalau.bsky.social

Laura Bianchi@laurafbianchi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ever wondered how epithelial cells clear apoptotic cells while maintaining tissue cohesion?🍝🔗 Check our new paper in which we show that E-cadherin plays a dual role in regulating basal cortex dynamics upon phagocytosis while maintaining connected tissue organization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ever wondered how epithelial cells clear apoptotic cells while maintaining tissue cohesion?🍝🔗 Check our new paper in which we show that E-cadherin plays a dual role in regulating basal cortex dynamics upon phagocytosis while maintaining connected tissue organization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

De novo E-cadherin/catenin complex formation controls basal epithelial mechanics and force transmission for apoptotic cell clearance - Nature Communications

Epithelial cells remodel their shape during phagocytosis while preserving tissue cohesion. Here, authors show that the E-cadherin/catenin adhesion complex is repurposed at phagocytic contacts, where i...

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Our preprint from Ruprecht lab is out there. E-cadherin/catenin complex controlling epithelial phagocytosis 🔬

bioRxiv Cell Biology@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

De novo E-cadherin/catenin complex formation controls basal epithelial mechanics and force transmission for apoptotic cell clearance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692667v1

How innate immunity starts? Early embryos eliminate bacterial infections by epithelial phagocytosis, a conserved process from zebrafish to human embryos. Check our story: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Really happy to have our first preprint out! 💫

Elena Scarpa & The Squeezable Cells Lab@squeezycellslab.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to share the first preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... We investigated neural crest migration all the way from head to tail of the Zebrafish embryo and we found their nuclei suffer dramatic deformations. Want to know of they cope with feeling squeezed? 🐟🐠🐟