Anaïs Bailles

This study shows that anisotropic stretch biases actin fiber orientation in Hydra cell aggregates during self-organization from a disordered state.

The paper shows how mechanical coupling between Myosin-II activation and adhesion/de-adhesion drives a cell contractile wave during Drosophila tissue morphogenesis.

The paper shows that morphogenetic waves in Drosophila endoderm are initiated by transcriptional activation and driven by mechanical feedback, not by continuous gene expression.