Jean‐Léon Maître

The paper shows that mechanical sorting, driven by adhesion and contractility differences, maintains basal-luminal compartmentalization and influences lineage outcomes in glandular epithelia.

The paper investigates the role of osmotic pressure and mechanical stresses in blastocyst expansion using mouse embryos and finds that osmotic pressure differences dominate over mechanical stresses.

This study identifies a mechanochemical feedback loop between Wnt signaling and tissue stretching that drives axis formation in Hydra regeneration.

The paper identifies inverse blebs as hydraulic pumps that facilitate fluid redistribution during mouse blastocyst lumen formation.

This study maps cell surface tensions during human embryo compaction and identifies contractility as the key driver of the mechanical forces involved.

This study investigates how mechanical forces during mouse embryo compaction strengthen cell-cell adhesion by expanding Cdh1 adhesive rings without increasing bond density.

This study identifies that ectopic activation of the polar body extrusion pathway during mitosis in preimplantation embryos triggers cell fragmentation through actomyosin contractility.

This study investigates how zygotic contractility awakens during mouse preimplantation development by analyzing cortical waves and cell size changes.

This study examines the effects of Myh9 and Myh10 mutations on mouse preimplantation development using multiscale imaging, revealing that contractility is not essential for certain developmental processes.

This study identifies hydraulic fracture of cell-cell contacts and directed coarsening of microlumens as mechanisms controlling lumen positioning in mouse blastocysts.