Hydraulic control of mammalian embryo size and cell fate

Polarization of Myosin II Refines Tissue Material Properties to Buffer Mechanical Stress

(2019) Maria Duda et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Mechanics of mouse blastocyst hatching revealed by a hydrogel-based microdeformation assay

(2018) Karolis Leonavicius et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From morphogen to morphogenesis and back

(2017) Darren Gilmour et al.   NATURE

Cell Boundary Elongation by Non-autonomous Contractility in Cell Oscillation

(2016) Yusuke Hara et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Asymmetric division of contractile domains couples cell positioning and fate specification

(2016) Jean-Léon Maître et al.   NATURE

Pulling together: Tissue-generated forces that drive lumen morphogenesis

(2016) Adam Navis et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cortical Contractility Triggers a Stochastic Switch to Fast Amoeboid Cell Motility

(2015) Verena Ruprecht et al.   CELL

Developing pressures: fluid forces driving morphogenesis

(2015) Adam Navis et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Pulsatile cell-autonomous contractility drives compaction in the mouse embryo

(2015) Jean-Léon Maître et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Interplay of Cell Shape and Division Orientation Promotes Robust Morphogenesis of Developing Epithelia

(2014) Fengzhu Xiong et al.   CELL

Formation of adherens junctions leads to the emergence of a tissue-level tension in epithelial monolayers

(2014) A. R. Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Generation of compartmentalized pressure by a nuclear piston governs cell motility in a 3D matrix

(2014) R. J. Petrie et al.   SCIENCE

A Rapid and Efficient 2D/3D Nuclear Segmentation Method for Analysis of Early Mouse Embryo and Stem Cell Image Data

(2014) Xinghua Lou et al.   Stem Cell Reports

Allocation of inner cells to epiblast vs primitive endoderm in the mouse embryo is biased but not determined by the round of asymmetric divisions (8→16- and 16→32-cells)

(2013) Magdalena Krupa et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A self-organization framework for symmetry breaking in the mammalian embryo

(2013) Sebastian Wennekamp et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Nuclear Reprogramming: Kinetics of Cell Cycle and Metabolic Progression as Determinants of Success

(2012) Sebastian Thomas Balbach et al.   PLoS One

Characterizing the mechanics of cultured cell monolayers

(2012) A. R. Harris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Measuring mechanical tension across vinculin reveals regulation of focal adhesion dynamics

(2010) Carsten Grashoff et al.   NATURE

α-Catenin as a tension transducer that induces adherens junction development

(2010) Shigenobu Yonemura et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Blastocyst lineage formation, early embryonic asymmetries and axis patterning in the mouse

(2009) J. Rossant et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The Hippo Signaling Pathway Components Lats and Yap Pattern Tead4 Activity to Distinguish Mouse Trophectoderm from Inner Cell Mass

(2009) Noriyuki Nishioka et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL