Frederic Català-Castro

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.

This study shows that magnetic nano-pulling induces axonal cytoskeleton remodeling, enhancing outgrowth and synapse maturation through microtubule density increase and local translation promotion.

The paper investigates proprioception in C. elegans, finding that proprioceptors respond to compressive stresses and encode body posture through mechanosensitive ion channels.