Timo Betz

Structural order emerges without mechanical order inside living cells

The paper investigates intracellular mechanical properties and structural organization in RPE1 cells, finding no significant spatial mechanical patterns or correlations between structures and mechanical properties.

Stretched Exponential Modeling Reveals Drug-Specific Kinetics in Human Engineered Skeletal Muscle

This study develops a stretched exponential model to analyze drug-specific contraction kinetics in human engineered skeletal muscle, revealing distinct kinetic signatures not detectable by peak force alone.

Zebrafish embryos are robust to mechanical perturbations

This study shows zebrafish epiboly is robust to mechanical perturbations, with body axis development unaffected by induced tissue flow disruptions.

Direct mechanical communication of cellular to nuclear shape in oocytes

The paper shows oocyte nuclei mimic cellular shape under deformation due to soft nucleoplasm and viscoelastic cytoplasm, with cytoplasmic elasticity affecting nuclear deformation across species.

3D dynamic multiscale force and shape analysis of in-vivo elastic stress sensors

This paper introduces Bead-Buddy, a platform for rapid evaluation of deformation and stresses from fluorescently labelled sensors in vivo.

Membrane tension regulation is required for wound repair

This study identifies membrane tension as a key regulator of exo- and endocytic events during plasma membrane wound repair, showing its role in coordinating resealing and homeostasis restoration.