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This June, we celebrate Pride by discussing with Felix Gunawan, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and co-affiliate group leader at the University of Münster, about his personal and acad...

Summary: Tissue material phase transitions are classically thought to regulate tissue deformability. This Review emphasises their unexpected roles in directly influencing growth and patterning signall...

In vitro reconstitution shows how mechanosensitive adherens junction proteins link actomyosin contractility to actin assembly.

On September 12, 2025, the University and University Hospital Münster opened their doors to the public during the “Lange Nacht der Universitätsmedizin”. At the Multiscale Imaging Centre, many visitors...

Über 12.000 Menschen aus 100 Ländern, 150 Berufe, mehr als 30 Ausbildungsgänge – willkommen in der lebendigen Welt der Universitätsmedizin. Willkommen zur Entdecken Sie die Universitätsmedizin Münster...

Cells build connections in organisms, and thus, form tissues that only allow certain substances or cells to pass through. In her doctoral thesis, biologist Thea Jacobs has carried out investigations o...

Neurobiologist Dr Bente Winkler is investigating how fruit fly brains react to inflammation. To do this, she is using genetically modified fruit flies in which a reaction of the immune system can be a...

EPFL researchers introduce CellSeg3D, a self-supervised tool for 3D cell segmentation in fluorescence microscopy, eliminating the need for manual labeling and enhancing accessibility for various biolo...

A new study reveals that the Drosophila follicular epithelium opens its permeability barrier to allow passage of yolk to the oocyte by relaxing, not actively pulling open, cell vertices. This work res...

Afadin strengthens adherens junctions by stabilizing cadherin-catenin complex clusters on curved F-actin.

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Cell vertices integrate forces in epithelia and play key roles in regulating barrier function. Jacobs et al. show that modulation of actomyosin contractility at cell vertices controls tricellular junc...