Fabrice Senger
@senger.bsky.social
Mechanobiology / Multi-cellular assemblies
Generosity in this age matters even more. Enjoy the trove! 🎁 www.openculture.com/2026/08/read...
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"Odd Droplets: Fluids with Odd Viscosity and Highly Deformable Interfaces,” with Hugo França, now out! We study a new route for controlling interfacial flows using broken symmetries. 🔗 lnkd.in/e_jpUMQt #FluidDynamics #SoftMatter #NonlinearDynamics
Preprint📣: Living tissues can exhibit odd mechanics without chirality. Our minimal model shows that orientational order can generate an odd modulus—inferable from experiments—and reproduces flows & stress localization around 1/2 defects. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Collecting recent-ish papers for a Cell Bio 101 course I'm teaching this fall. Ideally microscopy-driven breakthroughs that are also experimentally elegant and well written. Any favourites I should check out? 🔬
Andersen, B. H., Safara, F. M. R., Grudtsyna, V., Meacock, O. J., Andersen, S. G., Durham, W. M., Araujo, N. A. M., & Doostmohammadi, A. (2025). Evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological matter. Nature Physics, 21(4), 618–623. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #EpithelialMechanics
Bon et maintenant je vais devoir faire des soudures, comme s'il ne faisait pas déjà assez chaud
New paper on DaBest 2.0, outlining its cool visualizations for complex designs. For both R and python, DaBest is a fantastic, easy tool for focusing on effect sizes and uncertainty. #statsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Getting over ANOVA: estimation graphics for multi-group comparisons - Nature Methods
Nature Methods - Getting over ANOVA: estimation graphics for multi-group comparisons
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RelB drives integrin-mediated stress tolerance and relapse in high-grade serous ovarian cancer
RelB drives integrin-mediated stress tolerance and relapse in high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Lujano-Olazaba et al. show that ovarian cancer cells expressing integrin αVβ3 have enhanced tumorigenic capacity and are enriched at relapse, suggesting that αVβ3 specifies stress tolerance. Using in vivo models, they demonstrate that genetic knockdown of NF-κB, a stress response pathway, in combination with αVβ3 inhibition reduced relapse and improved survival.
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Niharika Patel, Daniel Conway and colleagues find that apical-out polarity in epithelial spheroids requires α6β4 integrins, cell proliferation and anchorage independence. #OpenAccess #ReadandPublish journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Booted my first raspberry, lots of fun especially to figure out where the micro-sd is hidden 😅
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
Study of Principles Governing Epithelial Cell Clustering and Collective Motion In Vitro https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741528v1
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Institut Jacques Monod@ijmonod.bsky.social · 7d ago#JobOffer 💼 Research Engineer (M/F) 📆 October 15th 📍Institut Jacques Monod, @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
✍️ The @romet-jegou-lab.bsky.social published a new article 📖 @pnas.org 📃 Vimentin promotes actin assembly by stabilizing ATP-actin subunits at the barbed end 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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
If you are interested in nervous system evolution you may want to read our review with Kei Jokura on nerve nets: "Revisiting nerve nets: functional organization and evolutionary implication" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44318-026-00879-w […] [Original post on biologists.social]
Found this cool review on lumina and balloons: arxiv.org/html/2605.01...
Lumens as active balloons: a biological physics review
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You're probably already doing science advocacy — you just might not call it that. Our new commentary (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes the case that every scientist has a role, and that advocacy takes many forms. Find and embrace yours! @natcellbio.nature.com @vfarm15.bsky.social
Every scientist has a role in advocacy - Nature Cell Biology
In this Comment, we call on scientists to share their stories. Through casual conversation or prepared presentations, with images or essays, scientists can advocate for their research and reach taxpay...
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Different sets of 3D printable test tube racks for Eppendorf, 15mL Falcon and 50mL Falcon tubes - useful point of reference with nice clean designs (from uranium235) makerworld.com/en/collectio...
New paper in @natphys.nature.com! We uncovered a stress adapation mechanism where keratin intermediate filaments in stretched epithelia undergo a supracellular bundling transition that uncages the nucleus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ibecbarcelona.eu, @upc.edu @qmul.bsky.social
as usual super interesting, my little darling among super interesting papers : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
LiFT: Live foci tracking for quantitative analysis of DNA damage dynamics
Quantitative analysis of radiation induced DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) and their repair is essential for understanding and eventually contributing to improving radiation-based cancer therapies. Us...
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · last wk.ICYMI: Our preprint list covering the latest research in bioimage analysis is now up on FocalPlane. Let us know if you have any recommendations! focalplane.biologists.com/2026/07/24/m...
Continuous, high-speed 3D topographic profiling of living tissue monolayers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.23.740215v1
It's the 10th anniversary of the first GOSH Gathering! Join us to celebrate 4–6 October in Lalitpur, Nepal, hosted by our longtime collaborators Karkhana Samuha. Reconnect, see how open science hardware has evolved, and help shape what comes next. Register: openhardware.science/gosh-2026-ka...
