Pere Roca-Cusachs

I never intended this account to be about politics but there is a limit to everything. So, a bit late, but finally moving to Bluesky. Please check @pcusachs.bsky.social for updates on our lab, with the first one coming today!

@kenneylj My heartfelt condolences Linda, this is very sad news.

My heart is broken as I announce the passing of my beloved husband, science partner and friend, Michael Sheetz. A remarkable scientist we packed 40 years of living into 20. Rejuvenation of senescent cells and mice in Press in Aging Cell; his last words were this was his best work

@JordiGraupera A la meva família hem fet sempre arròs per Sant Esteve: a la cassola, amb el caldo que sobra del dia de nadal, i amb les restes del capó. Important el toc dolç que donen les prunes i orellanes del farcit.

Aquest Nadal he après que abans dels canelons, per Sant Esteve era tradició fer un arròs amb les sobres de Nadal i fa molt més sentit com a aprofitament que no pas els canalons, que s'han de fer expressament. Demà faré arròs amb les restes de cigrons i carn d'olla i botifarres.

#PCBCommunity | An @IBECBarcelona-led study reveales how #mesenchymal_stem_cells respond to viscosity in their environment 📝@NatureComms The findings could revolutionise the #biomaterials design for #regenerativemedicine ▶️bit.ly/4eyqeTy @ManuelMime @ribonucleico3 @MarianaAG0 @PCusachs @UniBarcelona @EvaBEstaje @DalbyMatthew @marcocantini24 @finbeag @theglasgowcemi

@madelpozo67 @AlegreCebollada @PSaez83 @mart1nezdelp0z0 @chuerti @ClementeManteca Congratulations! It's a beautiful and elegant work, great news thet this is out.

@AlegreCebollada @PSaez83 @PCusachs @mart1nezdelp0z0 @chuerti @ClementeManteca A pleasure collaborating with you in this great work. Congratulations!!!!!

🎉🎉 Very happy that our paper “Cell response to extracellular matrix viscous energy dissipation outweighs high-rigidity sensing” is out @scienceadvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… A thread on the main findings follows👇 @CNIC_CARDIO @SBEsp @SEBBM_es

The system is adaptable to different cell types, different coatings, and single/multiple cell settings, so stay tuned for more on this in the future!

The result of hard, systematic, and precision work over the years by Laura Faure (experimental) and Manu Gómez (computational), in a joint effort between the labs of @XavierTrepat and our own. In collaboration with the labs of Marino Arroyo (UPC) and Elena Martínez (IBEC).

Our work on a new technique we call 3D micropatterned traction force microscopy (3D-μTFM) is now out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Through 3D micropatterned traction force microscopy, scientists can now measure the forces cells exert on their environment. @PCusachs and team used it to show how epithelial cells switch between contracting and extending as their volume changes. 👉 ow.ly/kMps50TSMf1

@SirioDupont @YLLee_CellBio @LammerdingLab @scita_lab @Ruprecht_Lab @LennonLab @KateMiro1 Congratulations Sirio and colleagues, impressive work!

@YLLee_CellBio @LammerdingLab @scita_lab @Ruprecht_Lab @LennonLab @PCusachs @KateMiro1 Many thanks for your help!

🚨 Super psyched this story is finally out!   Herculean effort and 3rd chef d’oeuvre in @NatCellBio by @patriziaromani in just 5y, where we describe #mitochondrial #mechanotransduction.   nature.com/articles/s4155…   Megathread with bonuses ⬇︎⬇︎⬇︎

.@i_GraneroMoya, @AndreuIon, @PCusachs & colleagues find that nucleocytoplasmic transport senses mechanical forces independently of cell density in cell monolayers. #OpenAccess #ReadAndPublish Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13… Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13…

Looking for a summer read?🏖️🌞📄 You're in luck 😂. Our paper on optogenetic leader cells is out @NaturePhysics. We found a force-velocity relation for collective cell migration. Experiments by @LeoneRossetti, theory by @ricardalert. @IBECBarcelona rdcu.be/dQDmM

@MadeleineOudin @MJ_Humphries @sophie_astrof Indeed!!!

@MJ_Humphries @sophie_astrof @PCusachs Haha wouldn’t that be nice!!!

Honored to be elected as Vice-Chair for the 2026 Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC with @PCusachs This is my favorite meeting- from coming for the first time in 2014, to chairing the GRS in 2016 to giving my first GRC invited talk as a PI in 2022, to now chairing in 2028!

@MadeleineOudin @MJ_Humphries Honoured to co-chair the meeting too, and thrilled to do it in such good company!

We combine

The result of hard, systematic, and precision work over the years by Laura Faure (experimental) and Manu Gómez (computational), in a joint effort between the labs of @XavierTrepat and our own. In collaboration with the labs of Marino Arroyo (UPC) and Elena Martínez (IBEC).

Here is our new pre-print on a new technique we call 3D micropatterned traction force microscopy (3D-μTFM): biorxiv.org/content/10.110…