Postdoc @heilshornlab @Stanford. Prev PhD in @AlegreCebollada. Biomaterials, tissue eng. and women's health. Advocate for #DEI and #mentalhealth in Academia.
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It’s finally here! I’m excited to share my thesis work with the scientific community. By engineering viscoelastic protein biomaterials, we offer new insights into cell mechanobiology. Available now on @ScienceAdvances
Thanks to our collaborators for their unwavering support!
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Very happy that our paper “Cell response to extracellular matrix viscous energy dissipation outweighs high-rigidity sensing” is out @scienceadvances
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
A thread on the main findings follows👇
@CNIC_CARDIO @SBEsp @SEBBM_es
Carla Huerta-López retweeted
Excited to share the latest work from my PhD now out in @NatureComms! We leverage matrix viscoelasticity and engineered N-cadherin-like signaling peptides to expand neural progenitor cells in 3D hydrogels in vitro while preserving their stemness. 😊
🔓: rdcu.be/epxe2
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📢📢 Paper alert!!!
nature.com/articles/s41551-0…
Mechanically knocking out titin reveals protein tension loss as a trigger of muscle disease @natBME
Congrats to leading author @SilvaRojasR and the rest of the team @CNIC_CARDIO
Funded mainly by @ERC_Research @EMBO
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End of the quarter means celebrating our awesome undergrads! Shout out to Hakim and Sanjana (pictured with mentors @chuerti and @daiyao_zhang) for giving awesome posters at the MatSci Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium! 🧑🔬 @StanfordMSE
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Thrilled to share that my latest research is now published in @Nature! 🚀🔬A special thanks to @AndrsHidalgo16 for invaluable mentorship during my PhD and to the amazing team (@alazozcan , Jackson, @lai9uan , @red_ven). nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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🧪🔬 Investigadores del @CNIC_CARDIO, liderados por @AndrsHidalgo16 | @Yale, descubren #CelulasInmunes que crean “escudos” en la piel, reforzando la barrera cutánea y protegiendo contra #infecciones.
📖 Publicado en @Nature, este hallazgo abre nuevas vías para tratar #enfermedades de la piel y trastornos inmunológicos, con potencial en terapias para inflamación, #diabetes y #envejecimiento.
DOI 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-0… #OpenAccess 🔓
Noticia completa 👉 cnic.es/es/noticias/nature-d…
ℹ️ Estudio financiado por @FundlaCaixa, Fundación @BoehringerES y @snsf_ch.
#CNIC #InvestigaciónCardiovascular #Inmunología
Carla Huerta-López retweeted
We have lost a giant in the mechanobiology world. Mike Sheetz helped to define what we know of focal adhesion formation and their role as mechanotransducers. Sending his family, friends, and colleagues my warmest wishes.
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Our recent work from @heilshornlab on a collagen IPN with two distinct microstructures and crosslinking chemistries! We demonstrate the important interplay between hierarchical features and material chemistry for the function of the tissue-eng. constructs: doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.202…
Thank you Spanish Biophysical Society @SBEsp for highlighting our recently published paper describing cell mechanobiology on stiff viscoelastic substrates. SBE was my first conference ever as a PhD student so this means a lot!
sbe.es/paperhighlights-nov20…
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👅 Tu a Uviéu i jo a Barcelona! Un fil per a conèixer #paraules que comparteixen l'#asturià i el #català.
👅 Tu a Uviéu y yo a Barcelona! Un filu pa conocer #pallabres que comparten l’#asturianu y el #catalán.
🧵 Obro fil. Abro filu. ⤵️
Carla Huerta-López retweeted
We are seeking for an enthusiastic individual with a keen interest in immunology and/or cardiac physiology to support our laboratory research activities. More info in the link below. Join us in beautiful San Francisco!
aprecruit.ucsf.edu/apply/JPF…
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Happy holidays from the Heilshorn Lab! Great way to end the year celebrating each other’s accomplishments together 🤗🎄☃️
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Organoid bioprinting is used to create complex 3D models of human tissues. In this Review, Heilshorn et al. discuss additive manufacturing approaches to advance disease modeling, drug testing, and the production of bioprinted-tissues for clinical use.
go.nature.com/3VGB6YN
Excited to see that the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (@SEBBM_es) has chosen our work, recently published in Science Advances, as the Paper of the Month! Thank you so much!🧫✨
sebbm.es/articulo-del-mes/ce…
@CNIC_CARDIO
Carla Huerta-López retweeted
Many thanks @SEBBM_es for selecting our work @ScienceAdvances as article of the month. Congrats @chuerti @ClementeManteca!
Collaborators include @PCusachs @mart1nezdelp0z0 @madelpozo67 Funded by @CNIC_CARDIO @ComunidadMadrid @AgEInves @ERC_Research
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Congrats to @MariaAboyPardal @madelpozo67 and the entire team! I’ve seen this project develop and I am really happy to see it has made it to the finish line. Impressive work on adipocyte mechanobiology :)
Want to know how #adipocytes “feel the force” to protect themselves and the organism from the stress of excess lipids?
👉Check out or new paper in @NatureComms in an effort led by @MariaAboyPardal @CaveoLab @CNIC_CARDIO & with key collaborators
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Lee la noticia completa aquí 📰 cnic.es/es/noticias/science-…
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📚 #Investigación | Según el Dr. @AlegreCebollada, entender la viscoelasticidad redefine cómo interpretamos la mecánica celular en salud y enfermedad.
@chuerti @CNIC_CARDIO
i.mtrbio.com/ssocezcfnl
Carla Huerta-López retweeted
🧬A study by @CNIC_CARDIO reveals that tissue viscoelasticity plays a crucial role in cellular response, impacting conditions like #heartattack and the aggressiveness of certain #tumors. Published in @ScienceAdvances, it proposes a new understanding of how cells respond to environmental stiffness, paving the way for improved artificial tissues and treatments in #cardiovascular and #oncology fields.
DOI 📑 science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… 🔓 #CardiovascularHealth #CNIC #Biomedicine
Carla Huerta-López retweeted
🧬 #Viscoelasticidad | Un estudio del @CNIC_CARDIO muestra cómo la viscoelasticidad de los tejidos regula la homeostasis celular y su respuesta mecánica
@AlegreCebollada @chuerti
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Carla Huerta-López retweeted
Our lab was not expert in hydrogels and mechanosensing. Many thanks to our collaborators (G. Plaza, @Psaez83 @madelpozo67 @PCusachs @mart1nezdelp0z0...) for great team work. Special kudos to @chuerti, who led the project, and @ClementeManteca who developed the pull-and-hold model