Regulation of biomechanical signals in biological tissues

The team is particularly interested in the roles played by the propagation of mechanical signals, which propagate rapidly over long distances and in a directional manner unlike chemical signals, in tissue formation and regeneration

We therefore seek to determine:

• How do mechanical perturbations propagate from one cell to another?
• How these signals are perceived and interpreted by other cells?
• How these signals are stored in space and time?

To answer these questions, we deploy a bottom-up strategy, from the elementary brick of a tissue (a pair of cells in contact) to millimeter-scale 3D model tissues.