Team

Our lab aims to elucidate the mechanisms by which cells sense and respond to mechanical features of their environment. We combine advanced microscopy techniques with biophysical measurements to decipher the pathways by which extracellular mechanical signals are transmitted into biochemical signals inside the cells. We then study how these mechanosensing events are integrated in time and space to affect cellular behaviors. We would like to understand how these processes are altered in cancer given the observation that proper mechanosensing is malfunctioning in cancer cells.