Lucas Anger

Bailles, A., Serafini, G., ..., Modes, C. D., & Tomancak, P. (2025). Anisotropic stretch biases the self-organization of actin fibers in multicellular Hydra aggregates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(32), e2423437122. #EpithelialMechanics www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🔬 We're hiring a Laboratory Manager! Join our growing international team at the Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine in Erlangen! 🧬 Cell & molecular biology 🧪 Lab coordination & experimental research 📩 Apply now: [https://www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/8173a98034c48d53d57bce14503883cbdbf6f3b80]

📣 Registration are open for the International symposium – Division and Cycling Across Biological Scales 📆 October, 19-23 📍Institut Jacques Monod Free registration mendatory before October 15th🔗 buff.ly/YqZKLeR @circleu.bsky.social @euerasmusplus.bsky.social

Tianxiang Ma, Lasse Bonn, Valeriia Grudtsyna, Nigar Abbasova, Martin Cramer Pedersen, Nuno A. M. Araujo, Amin Doostmohammadi: Cell division sets a universal flow geometry in cell layers https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34631 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34631 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.34631

What determines how epithelial cells divide when shape cues disappear? Our new work in @natcomms.nature.com shows that divisions follow maximal stress anisotropy — a “principal-stress rule” beyond Hertwig’s long-axis rule. Fantastic work led by @luanger.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our new study @ijmonod.bsky.social on how surface curvature shapes multicellular organization and function. How curvature controls tissue chirality, patterns distinct architectures, and influences myogenic differentiation? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share a new preprint! We address a longstanding question related to stratifying tissues: What are the physical mechanisms that drive epidermal cell delamination? Find out why this👇 traction force pattern emerges and how it is linked to upward cell motion: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Local mechanical heterogeneity drives epidermal cell delamination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.30.747990v1

Curvature-guided chiral collective organization of myoblast tissues https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.25.747076v1

Happy to share our new paper @natcomms.nature.com on the role of active nematics on myoblast fusion and myotube growth! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Amazinf work from @dubey837.bsky.social, @yoannletoquin.bsky.social and Aleksandra Ardaševa!

Anger, L., Schoenit, A., Wodrascka, F., Rossé, C., Mège, R.-M., Ladoux, B., & Marcq, P. (2026). Tissue stress measurements with Bayesian inversion stress microscopy. The European Physical Journal E, 49(1-2), 2. #EpithelialMechanicsReview buff.ly/ELaOtv9

Tissue morphogenesis demands massive deformations, yet tissues must stay coherent. This is achieved through cell intercalation, also known as T1 transitions. But what drives them mechanically? I'm @arturruppel.bsky.social, and I'll walk you through the physics, from whole embryos down to four cells

New 📄 🚨! #CellBio is teeming with simulations comprising an extraordinarily high number of components. We argue that model complexity will not automatically lead to a better understanding of biological systems & discuss how modeling practices could be repurposed: arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998 #philsci

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

Thrilled to share our new paper on cell extrusion. A beautiful study with a tremendous amount of data, led by the fantastic @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Clearly, the use of LLMs to summarise and analyse scientific (or otherwise) documents is well justified. Their understanding is, at least, at a human level. The following example (image attached) strongly supports their intellectual capabilities. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We had covered the history of traction force microscopy (TFM) earlier: bsky.app/profile/epim... But what about applying TFM into more physiologically relevant systems, such as those in 3D? I am @barrasa-fano.bsky.social and I'll be your guide through this thread on #3DTractionForceMicroscopy.

Barrasa-Fano, J., Shapeti, A., Apolinar-Fernández, A. et al. Guidance for 3D traction force microscopy today and in the next decade. Nat Methods (2025). #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/eRFLGkt

Interested in the biophysics of organoids? We just published a review in Dev Cell—take a look! dlvr.it/TPyTb8 #Organoids #Biophysics

Our paper on tissue stress measurements is now out in Eur. Phys. J. E. rdcu.be/eX59E. Great work from @luanger.bsky.social and @andreasschoenit.bsky.social and collaboration with P. Marcq @pmmh-lab.bsky.social Code: github.com/pmarcq/BISM/ and Examples on github.com/ASmushyCell/...

Reviewing process has always been painfull, but it will just become useless and impossible to publish if we start accepting this (we are not helping science...and better refusing to review if you have no time rather than using these tools without filter)

Tissue stress measurements — our latest preprint is out: arxiv.org/abs/2512.00550 (publication coming soon!) Fantastic work by the three musketeers — @luanger.bsky.social, @andreasschoenit.bsky.social and @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social — in collaboration with P. Marcq!

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

📢 PhD Thesis defense 📅 November 26th 📍Institut Jacques Monod Fanny Wodrascka ( @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social @bladoux.bsky.social @rmmege.bsky.social ) will defend her PhD thesis "Mechanical control of epithelial cell extrusion via RhoA-dependent contractility " ➡️ buff.ly/f5VaVah

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

Truly honoured and grateful to have received alongside other young researchers the prize "Grandes avancées françaises en biologie" from the @academiesciences.bsky.social for our paper on mechanical cell competition together with @luanger.bsky.social and S. Monfared www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ 🐣⚒️ To study mechanics, we need to apply prescribed forces - how can we do that in living tissues? I am @eigenp.bsky.social and in this thread I'll highlight our new approach for applying tension on epithelial tissues in vivo!

Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mechanobiology across timescales A Review by Bo Cheng, Moxiao Li, Min Lin, Hui Guo & Feng Xu ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics go.nature.com/4gVswyS

We’re organizing a conference at @ijmonod.bsky.social in Paris, January 2026, in memory of M.P. Sheetz — pioneer in cell mechanics and mechanobiology, co-discoverer of kinesin, and founder of @mbisg.bsky.social. Join us to explore his legacy. mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org

Happy to share our new study @ijmonod.bsky.social and @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social with C. Duclut and J. Prost. on forces generated by active fluid transport in epithelia and their role in tissue dynamics. Congrats to Huiqiong Wu, G. Arkowitz and R. Chilupuri! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

As railways enter their third century of service, research must support their renaissance for more-sustainable travel that supports human development go.nature.com/3If7jTK

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system, says Dolors Armenteras go.nature.com/4nzGhp9

This comment in @natnano.nature.com is well worth a read ⚛️🧪

Tianxiang Ma, Valeriia Grudtsyna, Robin V. B\"olsterli, Amin Doostmohammadi: Cellular Flow Architecture Exposes the Hidden Mechanics of Biological Matter https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17974 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17974 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.17974

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 September 11th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social 's Lab , Stephanie Ellis ( @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social ) give the IJM Seminar "Understanding mosaic tissue dynamics through cell competition. " ➡️ buff.ly/V6LaKMz

📢 PhD Thesis defense 📅 September 11th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Andreas Schoenit @andreasschoenit.bsky.social ( @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social Lab) will defend his PhD thesis "Mechanical forces in cell competition and epidermal stratification" More informations ➡️ buff.ly/yhtJMsu

Want to test your multicellular system? I have created a GitHub repository, ‘3D_SurfProps’, where you can download the MATLAB codes of our 3D surface analysis method: 👉 github.com/Julia-Eckert... Any questions, suggestions, or ideas for improvements? Please DM or email me. Have fun testing!