Neus Sanfeliu-Cerdán

This study shows that touch receptors in C. elegans detect surface traction, influencing proprioception and locomotion through MEC-4 channel activity and friction force.

The paper shows periodic obstacles regulate membrane tension propagation in neurons, enabling localized mechanotransduction by restricting tension spread.

This paper introduces a time-shared optical tweezer microrheology method to measure age-dependent viscoelastic properties of biological materials, demonstrating its application in biomolecular condensates, zebrafish cells, and C. elegans.

The paper develops a synthetic photon-assisted synaptic transmission system to restore communication in neurons and demonstrates its ability to rescue behavioral deficits in C. elegans.