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Tom Cumming

@tomcumming.bsky.social
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PhD student at Institut Pasteur studying commitment to cell death downstream of the caspases in epithelia.

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Aline Grata @alinegrata.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Check out my first #preLight on the work of Sokol's team exploring PCP and mechanosensation! It was so much fun to pick a preprint, read it, write about it, and even get to ask the authors questions directly. I have a feeling this is just the beginning of many more preLight posts to come! 🙌
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Tom Cumming @tomcumming.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The effector caspases drive cell death, but their activation can often be survived, so how do cells make this decision? Our new preprint from @levayerr.bsky.social shows that instantaneous caspase activity is important, but past activation has a key role to play! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Arthur Michaut 🔬🐣 @amichaut.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🚨📣 New preprint alert! Excited to share my new postdoc work on direct force and mechanical properties measurements in live embryos! A great team effort with A. Chamolly (theory), under the supervision of F. Corson and @jeromegros.bsky.social 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #devbio #mechanics
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Direct measurements of active forces and material properties unveil the active mechanics of early embryogenesis
Despite progress in probing tissue mechanics, direct long-term measurements in live embryonic epithelia are lacking. This limits our understanding of amniote embryonic morphogenesis, which takes place...
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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
How oncogenic clones can eliminate their neighbours to take over space ? There are different ways combining growth and interfacial tension induced compaction. Check out our latest preprint led by Léo Valon and Alexis Matamoro-Vidal to learn more about this 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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