Advancing Edge Speeds of Epithelial Monolayers Depend on Their Initial Confining Geometry

Modeling the finger instability in an expanding cell monolayer

(2015) Victoria Tarle et al.   Integrative Biology

Leader cells regulate collective cell migration via Rac activation in the downstream signaling of integrin β1 and PI3K

(2015) Naoya Yamaguchi et al.   Scientific Reports

Interplay of RhoA and mechanical forces in collective cell migration driven by leader cells

(2014) M. Reffay et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Polarizing cytoskeletal tension to induce leader cell formation during collective cell migration

(2013) Sebastian Rausch et al.   Biointerphases

Guidance of collective cell migration by substrate geometry

(2013) Kevin Doxzen et al.   Integrative Biology

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

E-Cadherin-Dependent Stimulation of Traction Force at Focal Adhesions via the Src and PI3K Signaling Pathways

(2012) Audrius Jasaitis et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Broad-tailed force distributions and velocity ordering in a heterogeneous membrane model for collective cell migration

(2012) Tripti Bameta et al.   EPL

Collective cell migration: leadership, invasion and segregation

(2012) A. J. Kabla   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Mechanical waves during tissue expansion

(2012) Xavier Serra-Picamal et al.   Nature Physics

Emerging modes of collective cell migration induced by geometrical constraints

(2012) S. R. K. Vedula et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Collective and single cell behavior in epithelial contact inhibition

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

Signaling Network Triggers and Membrane Physical Properties Control the Actin Cytoskeleton-Driven Isotropic Phase of Cell Spreading

(2011) Padmini Rangamani et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Orientation and Polarity in Collectively Migrating Cell Structures: Statics and Dynamics

(2011) M. Reffay et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Collective cell guidance by cooperative intercellular forces

(2011) Dhananjay T. Tambe et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Integrin adhesion drives the emergent polarization of active cytoskeletal stresses to pattern cell delamination

(2011) C. Meghana et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plithotaxis and emergent dynamics in collective cellular migration

(2011) Xavier Trepat et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Physical Model of the Dynamic Instability in an Expanding Cell Culture

(2010) Shirley Mark et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Velocity Fields in a Collectively Migrating Epithelium

(2010) L. Petitjean et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Light-mediated activation reveals a key role for Rac in collective guidance of cell movement in vivo

(2010) Xiaobo Wang et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Collective cell migration requires suppression of actomyosin at cell–cell contacts mediated by DDR1 and the cell polarity regulators Par3 and Par6

(2010) Cristina Hidalgo-Carcedo et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The Shape of Motile Cells

(2009) Alex Mogilner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

“Developmental mechanics”: Cellular patterns controlled by adhesion, cortical tension and cell division

(2008) Thomas Lecuit   HFSP Journal