Rigidity percolation uncovers a structural basis for embryonic tissue phase transitions

A tensile ring drives tissue flows to shape the gastrulating amniote embryo

(2020) Mehdi Saadaoui et al.   SCIENCE

Anisotropy links cell shapes to tissue flow during convergent extension

(2020) Xun Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptive viscoelasticity of epithelial cell junctions: from models to methods

(2020) Kate E Cavanaugh et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Theory of mechanochemical patterning in biphasic biological tissues

(2019) Pierre Recho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Epithelial Viscoelasticity Is Regulated by Mechanosensitive E-cadherin Turnover

(2019) K. Venkatesan Iyer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bulk Actin Dynamics Drive Phase Segregation in Zebrafish Oocytes

(2019) Shayan Shamipour et al.   CELL

Mechanochemical Feedback Loops in Development and Disease

(2019) Edouard Hannezo et al.   CELL

Tissue rheology in embryonic organization

(2019) Nicoletta I Petridou et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Tissue fluidity promotes epithelial wound healing

(2019) Robert J. Tetley et al.   Nature Physics

Mechanosensation of Tight Junctions Depends on ZO-1 Phase Separation and Flow

(2019) Cornelia Schwayer et al.   CELL

Geometric constraints during epithelial jamming

(2018) Lior Atia et al.   Nature Physics

A geometrically controlled rigidity transition in a model for confluent 3D tissues

(2018) Matthias Merkel et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Colloquium : Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

(2018) Miguel A. Muñoz   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Tissue stiffening coordinates morphogenesis by triggering collective cell migration in vivo

(2018) Elias H. Barriga et al.   NATURE

A fluid-to-solid jamming transition underlies vertebrate body axis elongation

(2018) Alessandro Mongera et al.   NATURE

Fluidization-mediated tissue spreading by mitotic cell rounding and non-canonical Wnt signalling

(2018) Nicoletta I. Petridou et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Sticky Matters: Jamming and Rigid Cluster Statistics with Attractive Particle Interactions

(2018) Dion J. Koeze et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Jamming transitions in cancer

(2017) Linda Oswald et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Adhesion forces and cortical tension couple cell proliferation and differentiation to drive epidermal stratification

(2017) Yekaterina A. Miroshnikova et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Vertex models: from cell mechanics to tissue morphogenesis

(2017) Silvanus Alt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fitting power-laws in empirical data with estimators that work for all exponents

(2017) Rudolf Hanel et al.   PLoS One

Cell Division Drives Epithelial Cell Rearrangements during Gastrulation in Chick

(2016) Joao Firmino et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Pulsatile cell-autonomous contractility drives compaction in the mouse embryo

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

Unjamming and cell shape in the asthmatic airway epithelium

(2015) Jin-Ah Park et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A density-independent rigidity transition in biological tissues

(2015) Dapeng Bi et al.   Nature Physics

Rigidity percolation by next-nearest-neighbor bonds on generic and regular isostatic lattices

(2015) Leyou Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Physics of active jamming during collective cellular motion in a monolayer

(2015) Simon Garcia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regulation of zygotic genome activation and DNA damage checkpoint acquisition at the mid-blastula transition

(2015) Maomao Zhang et al.   CELL CYCLE

Cell jamming: Collective invasion of mesenchymal tumor cells imposed by tissue confinement

(2014) Anna Haeger et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS

Vertex dynamics simulations of viscosity-dependent deformation during tissue morphogenesis

(2014) Satoru Okuda et al.   Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Vertex Models of Epithelial Morphogenesis

(2014) Alexander G. Fletcher et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Furrow Constriction in Animal Cell Cytokinesis

(2014) Hervé Turlier et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Tissue cohesion and the mechanics of cell rearrangement

(2014) R. David et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Morphogenesis at criticality

(2014) D. Krotov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forces in Tissue Morphogenesis and Patterning

(2013) Carl-Philipp Heisenberg et al.   CELL

PTEN Controls Junction Lengthening and Stability during Cell Rearrangement in Epithelial Tissue

(2013) Pierre-Luc Bardet et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Collective migration and cell jamming

(2013) Monirosadat Sadati et al.   DIFFERENTIATION

Alignment of cellular motility forces with tissue flow as a mechanism for efficient wound healing

(2013) M. Basan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stability of jammed packings I: the rigidity length scale

(2013) Carl P. Goodrich et al.   Soft Matter

Collective Cell Motion in an Epithelial Sheet Can Be Quantitatively Described by a Stochastic Interacting Particle Model

(2013) Néstor Sepúlveda et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Biomimetic emulsions reveal the effect of mechanical forces on cell-cell adhesion

(2012) L.-L. Pontani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adhesion Functions in Cell Sorting by Mechanically Coupling the Cortices of Adhering Cells

(2012) J.-L. Maitre et al.   SCIENCE

Soft Matter Models of Developing Tissues and Tumors

(2012) D. Gonzalez-Rodriguez et al.   SCIENCE

Active jamming: Self-propelled soft particles at high density

(2011) Silke Henkes et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Attractive emulsion droplets probe the phase diagram of jammed granular matter

(2011) I. Jorjadze et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spreading dynamics and wetting transition of cellular aggregates

(2011) S. Douezan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glass-like dynamics of collective cell migration

(2011) T. E. Angelini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aspiration of Biological Viscoelastic Drops

(2010) Karine Guevorkian et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Fluidization of tissues by cell division and apoptosis

(2010) J. Ranft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coaction of intercellular adhesion and cortical tension specifies tissue surface tension

(2010) M. Lisa Manning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell Lineage Reconstruction of Early Zebrafish Embryos Using Label-Free Nonlinear Microscopy

(2010) N. Olivier et al.   SCIENCE

Jamming of soft particles: geometry, mechanics, scaling and isostaticity

(2009) M van Hecke   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Tensile forces govern germ-layer organization in zebrafish

(2008) M. Krieg et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Jamming Transition and New Percolation Universality Classes in Particulate Systems with Attraction

(2008) Gregg Lois et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Reconstruction of Zebrafish Early Embryonic Development by Scanned Light Sheet Microscopy

(2008) P. J. Keller et al.   SCIENCE