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| Boreggio, Marta | Ladoux Division | Laboratory Engineer | +49 9131 8284652 | |
| Caliaro, Martina | Ladoux Division | Personal Assistant | +49 9131 8284651 | |
| Chen, Sicheng | Ladoux Division | Doctoral Student | +49 9131 8284658 | |
| Daubech, Cécile | Ladoux Division | Doctoral Student | +49 9131 8284657 | |
| Dubey, Sushil | Ladoux Division | Postdoctoral Fellow | +49 9131 8284653 | |
| Dörflein, Isabella | Ladoux Division | Technical Staff | +49 9131 8284652 | |
| Ellakkandy, Binsha | Ladoux Division | Doctoral Student | +49 9131 8284658 | |
| Gottheil, Pablo | Ladoux Division | Postdoctoral Fellow | +49 9131 8284655 | |
| Guglielmotti, Victoria | Ladoux Division | Postdoctoral Fellow | +49 9131 8284657 | |
| Kalukula, Yohalie | Ladoux Division | Postdoctoral Fellow | +49 9131 8284653 | |
| Ladoux, Benoit | Ladoux Division | Head of Division | +49 9131 8284650 | |
| Sharma, Aman Kumar | Ladoux Division | Doctoral Student | +49 9131 8284655 | |
| Zhao, Zihui | Ladoux Division | Postdoctoral Fellow | +49 9131 8284658 |
Team
Dr. Yohalie Kalukula
Position: Post Doc
Project: The extracellular matrix (ECM) regulates cell behavior through its physico-chemical properties, shaping survival, proliferation, migration, and fate across development and disease. Cell competition is a central mechanism allowing less fit cell populations to be actively replaced by their fitter counterparts. How the ECM regulates this mechanism remains unclear. Here, we examine how matrix mechanics regulate competition outcomes in mixed cell populations.
Aman Sharma
Position: PhD
Project: I try to understand how epithelial integrity and homeostasis are maintained or disrupted in multilayer skin epithelia.
Dr. Pablo Gottheil
Position: Post Doc
Project: I study the mechanics of cell layers and tumor development. Using Bayesian inversion, I develop approaches to infer 2.5D internal stresses in cell monolayers on elastic substrates. Furthermore, I investigate the 3D formation of invasive cancers arising from fibroblasts (fibrosarcoma) using digital pathology, in-vitro experiments, and computational simulations.
Cecile Daubech
Position: PhD
Project: Skin, the largest organ of the human body, constitutes the first protective barrier against environmental insults such as UV light, pathogens, chemical agents, or mechanical stresses. Using biophysical approaches, we investigate the physiological processes regulating tissue stratification in human in vitro epidermis.
Binsha Ellakkandy
Position: PhD
Project: How cell adhesion and substrate properties affects cell competition in epithelial tissues
Sicheng Chen
Position: PhD
Project: Collective migration of immune cells
Sushil Dubey
Position: Post Doc
Project: How mechanical forces regulate muscle and epithelial cell behavior, including in skin and kidney tissues. He focuses on nuclear mechanics in epithelial tissues during tissue homeostasis and disease.
Dr. Victoria Guglielmotti
Position: Post Doc
Project: This project explores how migrating cells leave persistent “footprints” in the extracellular matrix that influence the migration of subsequent cells, creating a form of cellular memory. Understanding this mechanism will provide new insights into collective cell migration and its role in tissue organization.
Dr. Zihui Zhao
Position: Post Doc
Project: Curvature effects on the cell collective motion
Contact
Tissue Mechanobiology Division
Prof. Benoît Ladoux
Principal Investigator
Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin
Kussmaulallee 2
91054 Erlangen, Germany
+49 9131 8284 650
Assistant:
Martina Caliaro
martina.caliaro@mpzpm.mpg.de
