Giuseppe Ciccone: Matrix viscoelasticity and dimensionality regulate epithelial cell behaviour

Giuseppe Ciccone 

Matrix viscoelasticity and dimensionality regulate epithelial cell behaviour

Supervisors: Massimo Vassali, Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez & Marco Cantini CeMi

Some of the papers mentioned in the talk:

Ovijit Chaudhuri, Luo Gu, Max Darnell, Darinka Klumpers, Sidi A. Bencherif, James C. Weaver, Nathaniel Huebsch & David J. Mooney: Substrate stress relaxation regulates cell spreading. Nature Communications volume 6, Article number: 6365 (2015)

Danahe Mohammed, Guillaume Charras, Eléonore Vercruysse, Marie Versaevel, Joséphine Lantoine, Laura Alaimo, Céline Bruyère, Marine Luciano, Karine Glinel, Geoffrey Delhaye, Olivier Théodoly & Sylvain Gabriele: Substrate area confinement is a key determinant of cell velocity in collective migration. Nature Physics volume 15, pages 858–866 (2019)

Andrew D. Doyle,  Francis W. Wang,  Kazue Matsumoto,  Kenneth M. Yamada:

Marco Cantini, Hannah Donnelly, Matthew J. Dalby, Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez: The Plot Thickens: The Emerging Role of Matrix Viscosity in Cell Mechanotransduction Adv Healthcare Materials 9(8) 19012