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Valeria Venturini

@valeriaventurini.bsky.social
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Biophysicist working in nuclear mechanobiology 👩🏼‍🔬🔬 | Postdoc at IBEC Barcelona with Pere Roca-Cusachs | PhD squeezing cells at Ruprecht lab | she/her

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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you seeking motivation to start the week? Incredible videos (and stories!) of brain-eating amoebae, Trichoplax or blebs will surely motivate you!! 😍🔬🧫 Check out the recordings of our last seminar below ⬇️
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In @pcusachs.bsky.social’s lab at @ibecbarcelona.eu we have a fully founded open PhD position! It’s a very nice working environment & can promise cool mechanobiology🔬🧫 Here all the info ibecbarcelona.eu/predoctoral-...
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
this is happening in 1 week!! 🥳 sign up below if you didn’t do it yet
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Is there a better way of coming back from holidays than such a great lineup of speakers? The second (exciting!!) cell migration webinar will happen on thursday 17th at 15 BST/16 CEST, you can register at the link below!
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our Special Issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus is complete Explore our Toc: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13... Our cover image shows the posteriorly positioned nuclei (Nup50-mCherry - pink) of notochord cells in Ciona embryos. See article by Peng et al. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
JCS Cover: Posterior nucleus positioning in Ciona notochord cells. Co-expression of hCD4–eGFP (green, cell boundary) and Nup50–mCherry (pink, nuclei) in notochord cells in Ciona embryos. The cells and the nuclei are 3D reconstructed and highlighted by Imaris software. See article by H. Peng et al. (jcs264699).

Special Issue on Cell Biology of the Nucleus 
Guest Editor: Abby Buchwalter
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Great speakers and really nice 1st session of the new @focalplane.bsky.social #CellMigration seminar!! 🎉 If you missed it: the recording will be available very soon! If you are an early career researcher and have some cool data that you would like to share, apply for the next one the link below!
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is tomorrow!! 🎉 Still in time to register and join us and this great lineup of speakers! At 15 BST/16 CEST
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Looking forward to co-host this new online seminar series on cell migration! 🎉 Join us next on June 11th (at 15 BST/16 CEST) for this amazing lineup of speakers
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SBCF @sbcf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Ready for #CellLaVie2026? Program & registration are live! Join us Oct 21–23, 2026 at Institut Pasteur, Paris, for multidisciplinary cell biology, imaging, talks, posters & outreach, w/ Manuel Théry's behind-the-scenes look at the Musée d’Orsay video-mapping project. www.atoutcom.com/cell-la-vie/
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IBEC | Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia @ibecbarcelona.eu · 29/04/2026
🧵🧬 How cells decide when to react could shape future treatments for cancer and fibrosis A recent study from IBEC and King’s College London reveals a surprising insight: cells don’t just detect mechanical forces, they also measure how long those forces last before reacting.
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Arachidonic acid availability controls neutrophil swarm initiation and scaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Do you know how to create 3D tissues with a defined shape from 2D cellular systems? Probably not, so check out how to do it in this impressive paper by a great colleague and scientist! 🚀
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Juanma García-Arcos @juanmagararc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Launching celldynamicslab.com, the homepage of our new group at EPFL working on cell fragmentation, membrane and cortex mechanics, FLIM imaging, and microfluidics tools. MSc/PhD or postdocs interested in quantitative cell biology are welcome to reach out. We're also hiring a lab manager in 2026!
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Main - Cell Dynamics and Fragmentation Lab
The Cell Dynamics and Fragmentation lab at We study how single cells move and fragment in complex environments using microfluidics. We bring tools and concep...
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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
1/2 A special #FluorescenceFriday for me! 🌈 Live muscle precursors on a pupal fly testis (Lifeact-eGFP, 🔥-depth-coded). It's special because this is on the poster for the @sfb1348.bsky.social Meeting in May — my first time being featured as a speaker on a poster! 😀 Feeling very grateful & excited!
Crawly cells with a vibe somewhere between morphogenesis and wildfirePoster for the awesome SFB1348 Meeting!
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Gràcies a tothom per l'ajuda, l'esmorzar solidari va ser un gran èxit i ens ha permès ajudar @unrwaes.bsky.social i @msf.ca per les seves missions a Palestina. La comunitat científica segueix lluitant i ajudant a Palestina fins que sigui lliure
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Mariona Colomer Rosell @mcolomerr.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Ever wonder what happens to immune cells when we get a fever? Exicted to share our paper showing that temperature regulates immune cell migration via myosinII! A wonderful collaboration with Ivan, @alempheius.bsky.social, @valeriaventurini.bsky.social & all co-authors! bit.ly/48XRVGj
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Myosin II regulates cellular thermo-adaptability and the efficiency of immune responses
Effective immune responses rely on the efficient migration of leukocytes. Yet, how temperature regulates migration dynamics at the single-cell level h…
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
🎉🎉 We finally have a website! 🎉🎉 Did you miss a thread? Want to know who our delegates are? Do you want to join our big club? Check it out: epithelialmechanics.github.io Huge thanks to all thread-contributors and to you for following us!
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Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club
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Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
📣Announcing the 4th edition of the EMBL‑IBEC Conference on “Engineering Multicellular Systems”, taking place 11–13 March 2026 in Barcelona. Exploring organoids, mechanobiology, embryo models, organ-on-chip systems, multiomics and more. Abstracts open now! events.ibecbarcelona.eu/embl-ibec-co...
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Osvaldo Chara @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our ForSys method to infer the mechanical state of a tissue in space and time is published now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/iscience/ful... (1/10)
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Carlos Pérez-González @cperez-gonzalez.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
1/ 🎉Excited to share our new preprint @vignjeviclab.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social : "Self-organization of tumor heterogeneity and plasticity" biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Tumor heterogeneity and plasticity drive metastasis and relapse. How is tumor patterning coordinated? A thread👇
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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Ever wondered how to control stretch/compression in your epithelial system? Do you know why it’s important, which mechanotransduction mechanisms could be involved? I am @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and today I will guide you through this journey.
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Nature @nature.com · 15/09/2025
Nature research paper: Energy deficiency selects crowded live epithelial cells for extrusion go.nature.com/42tmu2l
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Energy deficiency selects crowded live epithelial cells for extrusion - Nature
Crowded epithelial cells with the least energy and membrane potential are selected for extrusion.
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Palestina, la Facultat 18 de la Universitat de Barcelona - Actualitat - Universitat de Barcelona web.ub.edu/web/actualit...
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Palestina, la Facultat 18 de la Universitat de Barcelona
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Checkout the outcome of a great collaboration & to know how ATP can help cells dealing with confinement. Happy I could contribute to this nice work!
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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Please RT! We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets. Deadline: 30/09/25👇
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social, working alongside Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...
Call for papers for JCS Special Issue
Text: Special Issue
Cell Biology of the Nucleus
Guest Editor: Abby Buchwalter
Deadline: 3 November 2025
Image of a cell with a heart-shaped nucleus (Image credit: Hoang Anh Le)
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Checkout the new (amazing🤩) preprint from @pauguillamat.bsky.social !!
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Let's talk about a party—where drugs don't hit the dance floor but finely tune #EpithelialMechanics by hitting actomyosin cortex! 🧬💊 Here's our guide to doing drugs 🧵
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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
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Pere Roca-Cusachs @pcusachs.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Interested in how cells respond when squeezed? Check the review paper just published by Laura Faure, @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and myself on this. Really thorough and clear revision by Laura and Valeria!
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Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Want to compress cells? Want to know how to do it, which mechanism could sense compression or wondering why should you compress cells? Checkout our review to know more about that!!
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