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Manning Research Group @manningresearch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm hiring for multiple postdoc positions: www.sujobopps.com/postings/114... Feel free to reach out to me or current/recent members of my group to learn more about how research in our group works. Also, please feel free to re-post to spread the word. Thanks!

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ruppel, A., Misiak, V., Arzash, S., Selma-Herrador, D., Boudou, T., ... & Balland, M. (2026). A minimal in vitro assay for cell intercalation highlights the importance of interfacial tension and migratory forces. Nature Physics, 1-14. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/T5ZnvnR

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Suraj Shankar 🏳️‍🌈 @surajshankar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thrilled to share that my NIH R35 MIRA grant has been funded!! This will support our work on morphogenesis and bacterial dynamics for the coming 5-years. We are growing and recruiting postdocs - please share and reach out! sites.lsa.umich.edu/shankar-lab/

NOA for NIH R35 project: Biophysics of collective cellular response to complex cues.

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New paper 🧵 What if the "landscape" that guides cell differentiation isn't fixed, but is sculpted, in real time, by the very cells moving through it? We call this a 'sandscape' : grains of sand that carve dunes as they move, while the dunes' shape simultaneously steers where the grains go next.

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Manning Research Group @manningresearch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The proposed new government rules for politics-based decision making on federal scientific grants will materially impact my ability to due science in the US: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Please reach out to your congress representatives on this: www.linkedin.com/posts/lisa-m...

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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Rajendra Singh Negi @dr-rajendra-s-negi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

(1/n) Does basal stem cell division orientation regulate skin stratification and tissue mechanics? And can tissue mechanics feed back to control division orientation? In our new preprint, we use a 3D vertex model to explore this @manningresearch.bsky.social @somiealo.bsky.social

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Manning Research Group @manningresearch.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Thanks to all the students, postdocs, and collaborators over the past 15 years that really did the work that this AAAS Fellowship celebrates. Happy to share it with all of you! news.syr.edu/2026/03/26/3...

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3 Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows

Duncan Brown, Kevin Crowston and Lisa Manning are the first trio from Syracuse to earn the prestigious science honor in a single year.

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Manning Research Group @manningresearch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Excited to highlight a new preprint about mechanical contributions to tissue homeostasis, from the Manning group in collaboration with the amazing Carien Niessen and Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social labs, spearheaded by Dr. Somiealo Azote: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

❗PREPRINT ALERT❗ doi.org/10.64898/202... The lab of M. Lisa Manning at @syracuseu.bsky.social in collaboration with Ale Mongera at @ucl-cdb.bsky.social show that in the avian presomitic mesoderm, Contact Inhibition of Locomotion has a tissue-wide effect, making tissue act like a fluid under tension.

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Alex Grigas @agrigas.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

How do sparse mesenchymal cells, with unique stellate arms spanning large gaps between cells, maintain their network while still flowing during development? In our new preprint we describe the avian PSM as a fluid under tension and develop new theory to explain it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Sparse mesenchymal cell networks as a fluid under tension

Sparse mesenchymal cellular networks are ubiquitous across animals, shaping both embryonic and adult structures through dynamic interactions with epithelia. Yet, the physical principles underlying the...

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arXiv cond-mat.soft Soft Condensed Matter @condmatsoft-bot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Kelly Aspinwall, Tyler Hain, M. Lisa Manning: Rigidity and mechanical response in biological structures arxiv.org/abs/2508.18432 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18432 arxiv.org/html/2508.18432

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Villeneuve, C., Hashmi, A., ... & Wickström, S. A. (2024). Mechanical forces across compartments coordinate cell shape and fate transitions to generate tissue architecture. Nature Cell Biology #EpithelialMechanics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Biology makes materials far more complex that what we can achieve ourselves. It often does this with small parts that come together to assemble into larger structures with defined sizes. Here is a theoretical contribution to solving this problem, funded by the NSF. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

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Geometrically Frustrated, Mechanical Metamaterial Membranes: Large-Scale Stress Accumulation and Size-Selective Assembly

We study the effect of geometric frustration on dilational mechanical metamaterial membranes. While shape frustrated elastic plates can only accommodate nonzero Gaussian curvature up to size scales th...

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