Loïc Le Goff - Imaging and Biophysics of Morphogenesis

Mechanobiology

We study how mechanical forces shape growing animal tissues: stress, buckling, growth, and cell dynamics. This includes post-embryonic morphogenesis of Drosophila, where several tissues interact during development.

Research items

Papers in this topic, most recent first.

Junctional buckling
Junctional buckling
Compression-driven buckling as a force of morphogenesis
Adaptive laser dissection
Adaptive laser dissection
3D laser cuts that follow curved epithelia
ECM-driven tissue folding
ECM-driven tissue folding
A growing epithelium as an elastic bilayer with the ECM