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Perez-Tirado, A., Unkelbach, U., Oswald, T. A., Rheinlaender, J., ... Honigmann, A., & Janshoff, A. (2025). Differences in apical and basal mechanics regulate compliance of curved epithelia. Cell Reports Physical Science, 6(3), 102485. doi.org/10.1016/j.xc... #EpithelialMechanics

Richa, P., Häring, M., Wang, Q., Choudhury, A. R., Göpfert, M. C., Wolf, F., Großhans, J., & Kong, D. (2025). Synchronization in epithelial tissue morphogenesis. Current Biology, 35(11), 2495–2508.e4. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #EpithelialMechanics

Braat, Q. J. S., Storm, C., & Janssen, L. M. C. (2024). Formation of motile cell clusters in heterogeneous model tumors: The role of cell-cell alignment. Physical Review E, 110(6), 064401. journals.aps.org/pre/abstract... #EpithelialMechanics

Cheng, B., Li, M., Lin, M., Guo, H., & Xu, F. (2025). Mechanobiology across timescales. Nature Reviews Physics, 7(11), 621–644. www.nature.com/articles/s42... #EpithelialMechanicsReview

Perucca, A., Llonín, A. G., Benach, O. M., Hallopeau, C., Rivas, E. I., ... Calon, A., & Labernadie, A. (2025). Micro Immune Response On-chip (MIRO) models the tumour-stroma interface for immunotherapy testing. Nature Communications, 16(1), 1279. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #EpithelialMechanics

Maroudas-Sacks, Y., Suganthan, S., Garion, L., Ascoli-Abbina, Y., Westfried, A., Dori, N., Pasvinter, I., Popović, M., & Keren, K. (2025). Mechanical strain focusing at topological defect sites in regenerating Hydra. Development, 152(4), DEV204514. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... #EpithelialMechanics

How do tissues safely remove cells? Join me, @marija-matejcic.bsky.social in this perspective on the past, present and future of epithelial cell extrusion 🧵 0/16

How do tissues safely remove cells? Join me, @marija-matejcic.bsky.social in this perspective on the past, present and future of epithelial cell extrusion 🧵 0/16

Matejčić, M., Wang, M., López Serrano, E., Pérez-González, C., Houtekamer, R., Ceada, G., ... & Trepat, X. (2025). Mechanical Coordination of Intestinal Cell Extrusion by Supracellular 3D Force Patterns. bioRxiv, 2025-07. #EpithelialMechanics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Krueger, D., Spoelstra, W. K., Mastebroek, D. J., Kok, R. N. U., Wu, S., Nikolaev, M., Bannier-Hélaouët, M., Gjorevski, N.,... Tans, S. J., & Clevers, H. (2025). Epithelial tension controls intestinal cell extrusion. Science, 389(6764), eadr8753. doi.org/10.1126/scie... #EpithelialMechanics

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Villars, A., Letort, G., Valon, L., & Levayer, R. (2023). DeXtrusion: Automatic recognition of epithelial cell extrusion through machine learning in vivo. Development, 150(13), dev201747. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... #EpithelialMechanics

King, J. S., Lough, K. J., & Williams, S. E. (2026). Hemidesmosomes and Notch signaling regulate epidermal differentiation via delamination. Development, 153(16), dev205210. doi.org/10.1242/dev.... #EpithelialMechanics

Jin Ji, C. C., Santos-Olivan, D., Ramel, M.-C., Sanchez-Posada, J., Paizakis, P., Andrews, T. G., Noel, E. S., Torres-Sanchez, A., & Priya, R. (2025). Mechanical fracturing of the extracellular matrix patterns the vertebrate heart [Preprint]. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #EpithelialMechanics

Lancaster, C., Manhart, A., & Pichaud, F. (2025). Integrins coordinate basal surface contraction and oriented cell growth to enable thickening of a curved epithelium. Current biology : CB, 35(14), 3287–3302.e3. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/hfic6qh

Zegers, M. M., Gottheil, P., Käs, J., & Friedl, P. (2026). Soft Matter Physics Meets Cell Biology: Transitions of Collective Cell Migration in 3D Environments. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 18(6), a041794. #EpithelialMechanicsReview buff.ly/rkNZIue

Zhao, Z., Li, H., Yao, Y., Zhao, Y., Serra, F., Kawaguchi, K., Zhang, H., & Sano, M. (2025). Integer topological defects offer a methodology to quantify and classify active cell monolayers. Nature communications, 16(1), 2452. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/5hK7jSt

Gsell, S., Tlili, S., Merkel, M., & Lenne, P. F. (2025). Marangoni-like tissue flows enhance symmetry breaking of embryonic organoids. Nature Physics, 21(4), 644-653. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/yLqWOm5

Guha Ray, C., & Haas, P. A. (2025). Unbuckling Mechanics of Epithelial Monolayers under Compression. Physical review letters, 134(11), 118402. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/yObUtfc

Shellard, A., Weißenbruch, K., Hampshire, P. A., Stillman, N. R., Dix, C. L., Thorogate, R., ... & Mayor, R. (2025). Frictiotaxis underlies focal adhesion-independent durotaxis. Nature communications, 16(1), 3811. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/4BAjoLy

Hsieh, H. C., Han, Q., Brenes, D., Bishop, K. W., Wang, R., Wang, Y., ... & Liu, J. T. (2025). Imaging 3D cell cultures with optical microscopy. Nature methods, 22(6), 1167-1190. #EpithelialMechanicsReview buff.ly/l5r9m9G

Xue, S. L., Yang, Q., Liberali, P., & Hannezo, E. (2025). Mechanochemical bistability of intestinal organoids enables robust morphogenesis. Nature Physics, 21(4), 608-617. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/053t2p4

Balasubramaniam, L., Monfared, S., Ardaševa, A., Rosse, C., Schoenit, A., Dang, T., Maric, C., Hautefeuille, M., ..., Doostmohammadi, A., & Ladoux, B. (2025). Dynamic forces shape the survival fate of eliminated cells. Nature physics, 21(2), 269–278. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/hu5otFf

From single-celled organisms to ciliated epithelia in metazoans, precise positioning of basal bodies (BBs), which anchor motile cilia, is essential for generating fluid flows. Here, I, @raghavan-thiaga.bsky.social, will take you on a brief tour of how cells build this spatial organization.

From single-celled organisms to ciliated epithelia in metazoans, precise positioning of basal bodies (BBs), which anchor motile cilia, is essential for generating fluid flows. Here, I, @raghavan-thiaga.bsky.social, will take you on a brief tour of how cells build this spatial organization.

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Wallingford J. B. (2010). Planar cell polarity signaling, cilia and polarized ciliary beating. Current opinion in cell biology, 22(5), 597–604. #EpithelialMechanicsReview doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Azimzadeh, J., & Marshall, W. F. (2010). Building the centriole. Current Biology, 20(18). #EpithelialMechanicsReview doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Mirzadeh, Z., Han, Y. G., Soriano-Navarro, M., García-Verdugo, J. M., & Alvarez-Buylla, A. (2010). Cilia organize ependymal planar polarity. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 30(7), 2600–2610. #EpithelialMechanics doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...