I'm excited to share our paper on how infected #macrophages promote #biomechanical alterations in #endothelia to transmigrate, published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! Thanks to all contributors, @sergemostowylab.bsky.social and @cmfi.bsky.social for the support. Here: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Listeria-infected macrophages promote biomechanical alterations in endothelial cell monolayers for transmigration

Intracellular pathogens like Listeria exploit macrophages to cross endothelial barriers and spread systemically. Muenkel et al. show that exposure to infected macrophages weakens contractile forces wi...

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Very excited for the upcoming "Mechanobiology of Infection" meeting we are organizing with Alexandre Persat and Daria Bonazzi. Thanks to @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Society for their support - looking forward to it! Abstract submission and registration here: www.biophysics.org/meetings-eve...

Thrilled to organize the “Physical Cell Biology of Immunity & Infection” subgroup at Cell Bio 2025 – ASCB/EMBO with @hawa-racine.bsky.social, @jaumouillelab.bsky.social, Marcus Taylor & Shalini Low-Nam. Seeking exciting interdisciplinary speakers! Abstract deadline: Sept 3 www.ascb.org/cellbio2025

Cell Bio 2023-An ASCB|EMBO Meeting

Network, learn, and collaborate with top cell biologists from around the globe.

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We’re hiring! A PhD position (E13 TV-L, 65%) is available at @cmfi.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social. The DFG-funded project explores how mechanical forces shape intracellular bacterial infections, focusing on Listeria. Details & application: www.euraxess.de/jobs/366585. Start: ASAP!

Great work from @calinacopos.bsky.social lab on #migration of #cell trains! Excited to have contributed some of my old #Dictyostelium data to the modelling work!

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When it comes to getting from A to B, is it smarter to buddy up as a supra-cell or go solo like two independent adventurers sharing the load? Check out our answer in this new modeling work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking for a method to characterise cell #motility and #ERK signalling waves? Check out our STAR protocols paper: star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/41... Thanks for the great work Julio Cesar Sanchez-Rendon & @effiebastounis.bsky.social! #protocol #epithelia #FRET #singlecell #imaging

How is extrusion of infected host cells related to ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) activity? Hi, I’m @hundsdorfer.bsky.social from the @effiebastounis.bsky.social lab. Let’s follow the recent development of bacterially-infected cell extrusion & mechanochemical ERK activity waves.

The study of @hundsdorfer.bsky.social et al. on ERK waves coordinating the #biomechanical competition between #epithelial #cells resulting in infected cell extrusion is out: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce.... Thanks to all contributors, DFG, @cmfi.bsky.social & @Serge for #Shigella & #zebrafish experiments!

Delighted that our review on modeling of #endothelial and #epithelial #cell monolayer #biomechanics is now published in @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.tc...! Thanks to all contributors and to DFG, Universität Tübingen, @cmfi.bsky.social for the support!

Happy to share our paper describing StretchView, an accessible cell-stretching device compatible with automated live-cell videomicroscopy: doi.org/10.1002/advs...! A great collaboration with the Constantinou lab TU Braunschweig. Thanks to DFG, Universität Tübingen, @cmfi.bsky.social for supporting!