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Guillaume Charras is affiliated with the London Centre for Nanotechnology in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions primarily fall within the domain of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a special focus on Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Skin and Cellular Biology Research
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Spaceflight effects on biology

A number of frequent co-authors have contributed alongside Guillaume Charras, indicating ongoing collaborations with researchers such as Alexandre Kabla, Manasi Kelkar, Alessandra Bonfanti, Alan R. Lowe, and Giulia Vallardi.

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, with repeated appearances in publication platforms including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Materials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications, and eLife.

Among the notable recent papers associated with Guillaume Charras are:

  • Fractional viscoelastic models for power-law materials, 2020, Soft Matter
  • Cortical cell stiffness is independent of substrate mechanics, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Automated Deep Lineage Tree Analysis Using a Bayesian Single Cell Tracking Approach, 2021, Frontiers in Computer Science
  • F-Actin Interactome Reveals Vimentin as a Key Regulator of Actin Organization and Cell Mechanics in Mitosis, 2020, Developmental Cell
  • Curling of epithelial monolayers reveals coupling between active bending and tissue tension, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Mechanotransduction and YAP-dependent matrix remodelling is required for the generation and maintenance of cancer-associated fibroblasts

    Fernando Calvo;Nil Ege;Araceli Grande-Garcia;Steven Hooper

  • Blebs lead the way: how to migrate without lamellipodia

    Guillaume Charras;Ewa Paluch

  • Actin cortex mechanics and cellular morphogenesis.

    Guillaume Salbreux;Guillaume Charras;Guillaume Charras;Ewa Paluch;Ewa Paluch

  • The cytoplasm of living cells behaves as a poroelastic material

    Emad Moeendarbary;Léo Valon;Léo Valon;Marco Fritzsche;Marco Fritzsche;Andrew R. Harris;Andrew R. Harris

  • Non-equilibration of hydrostatic pressure in blebbing cells

    Guillaume T. Charras;Justin C. Yarrow;Mike A. Horton;L. Mahadevan

  • Reassembly of contractile actin cortex in cell blebs

    Guillaume T. Charras;Chi-Kuo Hu;Margaret Coughlin;Timothy J. Mitchison

  • Physical influences of the extracellular environment on cell migration

    Guillaume Charras;Erik Sahai

  • Life and times of a cellular bleb.

    Guillaume T. Charras;Margaret Coughlin;Timothy J. Mitchison;L. Mahadevan

  • Tissue stiffening coordinates morphogenesis by triggering collective cell migration in vivo

    Elias H. Barriga;Kristian Franze;Guillaume Charras;Guillaume Charras;Roberto Mayor

  • Actin cortex architecture regulates cell surface tension

    Priyamvada Chugh;Andrew G. Clark;Andrew G. Clark;Matthew B. Smith;Davide A. D. Cassani

  • A short history of blebbing.

    G.T. Charras

  • Characterizing the mechanics of cultured cell monolayers

    Andrew R. Harris;Loic Peter;Loic Peter;Julien Bellis;Buzz Baum

  • Single cell mechanotransduction and its modulation analyzed by atomic force microscope indentation.

    Guillaume T. Charras;Mike A. Horton

  • Force transmission during adhesion-independent migration.

    Martin Bergert;Anna Erzberger;Ravi A. Desai;Irene M. Aspalter

  • Tensile Forces and Mechanotransduction at Cell-Cell Junctions.

    Guillaume Charras;Guillaume Charras;Alpha S. Yap

  • Cellular Control of Cortical Actin Nucleation

    Miia Bovellan;Yves Romeo;Maté Biro;Annett Boden;Annett Boden

  • Analysis of turnover dynamics of the submembranous actin cortex

    Marco Fritzsche;Alexandre Lewalle;Tom Duke;Karsten Kruse

  • The Accuracy of Digital Image-Based Finite Element Models

    R. E. Guldberg;S. J. Hollister;G. T. Charras

  • Optogenetic control of cellular forces and mechanotransduction.

    Léo Valon;Ariadna Marín-Llauradó;Thomas Wyatt;Guillaume Charras

  • Cellular control of cortical actin nucleation.

    M Bovellan;A Yonis;Y Romeo;M Biro

Frequent Co-Authors

Buzz Baum
Buzz Baum MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Adrian J. Thrasher
Adrian J. Thrasher University College London
Timothy J. Mitchison
Timothy J. Mitchison Harvard University
Philippe P. Roux
Philippe P. Roux University of Montreal
Petri Lehenkari
Petri Lehenkari Oulu University Hospital
Erik Sahai
Erik Sahai The Francis Crick Institute
Roberto Mayor
Roberto Mayor University College London
Maddy Parsons
Maddy Parsons King's College London
Siobhan O. Burns
Siobhan O. Burns University College London
Eleanor Stride
Eleanor Stride University of Oxford

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