Alessandro Mongera

DySTrack provides a modular tool for live tracking of dynamic samples on commercial microscopes, enabling integration of image analysis pipelines with vendor software.

The paper shows that sparse mesenchymal networks behave like a fluid under tension, driven by contact inhibition of locomotion, and identifies this as a new tissue behavior with implications for development and tumorigenesis.

This study identifies a biomechanical mechanism involving mesenchymal forces and SHH signaling that drives epithelial tube splitting during tracheal-esophageal separation in embryos.

The paper shows that active tissue expansion, driven by FGF signaling and HA production, propels vertebrate body elongation without relying on cell proliferation.

This study introduces 3D culture systems to model human somitogenesis, revealing the role of the segmentation clock in establishing somite compartments.