Publications

Ben Jeffrey Gross, Johannes Richard Soltwedel, Elijah Shelton, Carlos Gomez, Otger Campàs
STRESS, an automated geometrical characterization of deformable particles for in vivo measurements of cell and tissue mechanical stresses
Scientific Reports volume 15, Article number: 28599 (Aug 5, 2025)
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Georgina A Stooke-Vaughan, Sangwoo Kim, Shuo-Ting Yen, Kevin Son, Samhita P Banavar, James Giammona, David Kimelman, Otger Campàs*
The physical roles of different posterior tissues in zebrafish axis elongation
Nat Commun 16, 1839 (Feb 21, 2025)
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Matthew R Devlin, Sangwoo Kim, Otger Campàs*, Elliot W Hawkes*
Material-like robotic collectives with spatiotemporal control of strength and shape
Science, Vol 387, Issue 6736, pp. 880-885 (Feb 21, 2025)
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Gareth Wyn Jones, Otger Campàs, L. Mahadevan*
Morphodynamics of tip growing cells
bioRxiv, 2024.11. 17.624014 (online: Nov 17, 2024)
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Heidi L. van de Wouw, Shuo-Ting Yen, Manon Valet, Joseph A. Garcia, Carlos O. Gomez, Antoine Vian, Yucen Liu, Jennifer Pollock, Petr Pospíšil, Otger Campàs*, Ellen M. Sletten*
Non-Ionic Fluorosurfactants for Droplet-Based in vivo Applications
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., e202404956 (Sep 27, 2024)
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Rahul M Sarate, Joel Hochstetter, Manon Valet, Adrien Hallou, Yura Song, Nordin Bansaccal, Melanie Ligare, Mariaceleste Aragona, Dan Engelman, Anaïs Bauduin, Otger Campàs*, Benjamin D Simons*, Cedric Blanpain*
Dynamic regulation of tissue fluidity controls skin repair during wound healing
Cell 187(19):5298–5315.e19 (Sep 19, 2024)
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Sangwoo Kim, Rana Amini, Shuo-Ting Yen, Petr Pospisil, Arthur Boutillon, Ilker Ali Deniz, Otger Campàs*
A nuclear jamming transition in vertebrate organogenesis
Nat. Mater. 23(11):1592–1599 (Aug 12, 2024)
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Manon Valet*, Juan M Iglesias-Artola*, Falk Elsner, Anatol W Fritsch, Otger Campàs
A Heating and Cooling Stage With Fast Temporal Control for Biological Applications
IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, vol. 5, pp. 573–575 (Jul 12, 2024)
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Arthur Boutillon, Samhita P. Banavar, Otger Campàs*
Conserved physical mechanisms of cell and tissue elongation
Development 151(10): dev202687 (May 20, 2024)
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Neha Pincha Shroff, Pengfei Xu, Sangwoo Kim, Elijah R Shelton, Ben J Gross, Yucen Liu, Carlos O Gomez, Qianlin Ye, Tingsheng Yu Drennon, Jimmy K Hu, Jeremy BA Green, Otger Campàs*, Ophir D Klein*
Proliferation-driven mechanical compression induces signalling centre formation during mammalian organ development
Nature Cell Biology 26, 519–529 (Apr 3, 2024)
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Otger Campàs*, Ivar Noordstra, Alpha S. Yap*
Adherens junctions as molecular regulators of emergent tissue mechanics
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 25(4):252–269 (Apr 2024)
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Antoine Vian, Marie Pochitaloff, Shuo-Ting Yen, Sangwoo Kim, Jennifer Pollock, Yucen Liu, Ellen M. Sletten, Otger Campàs*
In situ quantification of osmotic pressure within living embryonic tissues
Nat Commun 14(1), 7023 (Nov 2, 2023)
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Fang-Chu Lin, Heidi L. van de Wouw, Otger Campàs, Ellen M. Sletten, Jeffrey I. Zink*
Synthesis of Fluorous Ferrofluids and Effects of the Nanoparticle Coatings on Field- and Temperature-Dependent Magnetizations
Chem. Mater. 35(19):7957–7966 (Sep 29, 2023)
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Alessandro Mongera, Marie Pochitaloff, Hannah J. Gustafson, Georgina A. Stooke-Vaughan, Payam Rowghanian, Sangwoo Kim, Otger Campàs*
Mechanics of the cellular microenvironment as probed by cells in vivo during zebrafish presomitic mesoderm differentiation
Nat. Mater. 22, 135–143 (Jan 2023)
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Daniel A. Estabrook, John O. Chapman, Shuo-Ting Yen, Helen H. Lin, Ethan T. Ng, Linglan Zhu, Heidi L. van de Wouw, Otger Campàs, Ellen M. Sletten*
Macromolecular Crowding as an Intracellular Stimulus for Responsive Nanomaterials
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144(37):16792–16798 (Sep 9, 2022)
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Carolina Parada, Samhita P. Banavar, Parisa Khalilian, Stephane Rigaud, Arthur Michaut, Yucen Liu, Dennis Manjaly Joshy, Otger Campàs*, Jerome Gros*
Mechanical feedback defines organizing centers to drive digit emergence
Dev Cell 57(7) 854–866.e6 (Apr 11, 2022)
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Samhita P. Banavar, Emmet K. Carn, Payam Rowghanian, Georgina Stooke-Vaughan, Sangwoo Kim, Otger Campàs*
Mechanical control of tissue shape and morphogenetic flows during vertebrate body axis elongation
Scientific Reports 11 (1), 1–14 (Apr 21, 2021)
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Sangwoo Kim, Marie Pochitaloff, Georgina A. Stooke-Vaughan, Otger Campàs*
Embryonic tissues as active foams
Nat. Phys. (Apr 12, 2021)
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Samhita P Banavar, Michael Trogdon, Brian Drawert, Tau-Mu Yi, Linda R Petzold, Otger Campàs*
Coordinating cell polarization and morphogenesis through mechanical feedback
PLoS computational biology 17 (1), e1007971 (Jan 28, 2021)
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James Giammona, Otger Campàs*
Physical constraints on early blastomere packings
PLoS Computational Biology 17 (1), e1007994 (Jan 26, 2021)
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Irene Lim, Antoine Vian, Heidi L. van de Wouw, Rachael A. Day, Carlos Gomez, Yucen Liu, Arnold L. Rheingold, Otger Campàs*, Ellen M. Sletten*
Fluorous Soluble Cyanine Dyes for Visualizing Perfluorocarbons in Living Systems
Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (37), 16072-16081 (Aug 18, 2020)
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Alessandro Mongera, Payam Rowghanian, Hannah J. Gustafson, Elijah Shelton, David A. Kealhofer, Emmet K. Carn, Friedhelm Serwane, Adam A. Lucio, James Giammona, Otger Campàs*
A fluid-to-solid jamming transition underlies vertebrate body axis elongation
Nature 561 (7723), 401-405 (Sep 5, 2018)
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Georgina A Stooke-Vaughan, Otger Campàs*
Physical control of tissue morphogenesis across scales
Current opinion in genetics & development 51, 111-119 (Aug 2018)
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Michael Trogdon*, Brian Drawert, Carlos Gomez, Samhita P Banavar, Tau-Mu Yi, Otger Campàs, Linda R Petzold
The effect of cell geometry on polarization in budding yeast
PLoS computational biology 14 (6), e1006241 (Jun 11, 2018)
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Samhita Banavar, Carlos Gomez, Michael Trogdon, Linda Petzold, Tau Mu Yi, Otger Campas
Mechanical feedback coordinates cell wall expansion and assembly in yeast mating morphogenesis
PLoS Computational Biology 14 (1), e1005940 (Feb 19, 2018)
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Lautaro Díaz-Piola, Ramon Planet, Otger Campàs, Jaume Casademunt, Jordi Ortín*
Fluid front morphologies in gap-modulated Hele-Shaw cells
Physical Review Fluids 2 (9), 094006 (Sep 25, 2017)
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Adam Lucio, Alessandro Mongera, Elijah Shelton, Renwei Chen, Adele Doyle, Otger Campàs*
Spatiotemporal variation of endogenous cell-generated stresses within 3D multicellular spheroids
Scientific Reports 7, 12022 (Sep 20, 2017)
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Elijah Shelton, Friedhelm Serwane, Otger Campàs*
Geometrical characterization of fluorescently labelled surfaces from noisy 3D microscopy data
Journal of Microscopy (Sep 1, 2017)
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Mishel George, Francesco Bullo, Otger Campàs*
Connecting individual to collective cell migration
Scientific Reports 7, 9720 (Aug 29, 2017)
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P. Rowghanian, O. Campàs*
Non-equilibrium Membrane Homeostasis in Expanding Cellular Domains
Biophysical Journal 113 (1), 132-137 (Jul 11, 2017)
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Friedhelm Serwane, Alessandro Mongera, Payam Rowghanian, David A Kealhofer, Adam A Lucio, Zachary M Hockenbery, Otger Campàs*
In vivo quantification of spatially varying mechanical properties in developing tissues
Nature methods 14 (2), 181-186 (Dec 5, 2016)
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P. Rowghanian, C. D. Meinhart, O. Campàs
Dynamics of ferrofluid drop deformations under spatially uniform magnetic fields
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 802, 245-262 (Aug 3, 2016)
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Otger Campàs
A toolbox to explore the mechanics of living embryonic tissues
Seminars in cell & developmental biology 55, 119-130 (Jul 2016)
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Jamianne C. Wilcox, Benjamin J. Lopez, Otger Campàs, Megan T. Valentine*
Improved calibration of the nonlinear regime of a single-beam gradient optical trap
Optics Letters 41 (10), 2386-2389 (May 15, 2016)
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Adam A. Lucio, Donald E. Ingber, Otger Campàs*
Generation of biocompatible droplets for in vivo and in vitro measurement of cell-generated mechanical stresses
Methods in cell biology 125, 373-390 (Feb 2015)
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Amy C. Rowat, Naveen N. Sinha, Pia M. Sörensen, Otger Campàs, Pere Castells, Daniel Rosenberg, Michael P. Brenner, David A. Weitz
The kitchen as a physics classroom
Physics Education 49 (5), 512 (Sep 2014)
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Otger Campàs*, Tadanori Mammoto, Sean Hasso, Ralph A. Sperling, Daniel O'connell, Ashley G. Bischof, Richard Maas, David A. Weitz, Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Donald E. Ingber*
Quantifying cell-generated mechanical forces within living embryonic tissues
Nature methods 11 (2), 183-189 (Dec 8, 2013)
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Ricardo Mallarino*, Otger Campàs, Joerg A. Fritz, Kevin J. Burns, Olivia G. Weeks, Michael P. Brenner, Arhat Abzhanov*
Closely related bird species demonstrate flexibility between beak morphology and underlying developmental programs
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (40), 16222-16227 (Sep 17, 2012)
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Otger Campás*, Enrique Rojas, Jacques Dumais, L. Mahadevan
Strategies for cell shape control in tip‐growing cells
American Journal of Botany 99 (9), 1577-1582 (Sep 1, 2012)
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Otger Campàs*, L. Mahadevan, Jean-François Joanny
Actin network growth under load
Biophysical journal 102 (5), 1049-1058 (Mar 7, 2012)
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Cécile Leduc, Otger Campàs, Jean-François Joanny, Jacques Prost, Patricia Bassereau*
Mechanism of membrane nanotube formation by molecular motors
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes 1798 (7), 1418-1426 (Jul 2010)
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Otger Campàs, Ricardo Mallarino, Anthony Herrel, Arkhat Abzhanov*, M.P. Brenner*
Scaling and shear transformations capture beak shape variation in Darwin’s finches
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (8), 3356-3360 (Feb 16, 2010)
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Otger Campàs, L. Mahadevan*
Shape and dynamics of tip-growing cells
Current Biology 19 (24), 2102-2107 (Dec 29, 2009)
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Cécile Leduc, Otger Campàs, Konstantin B Zeldovich, Aurélien Roux, Pascale Jolimaitre, Line Bourel-Bonnet, Bruno Goud, Jean-François Joanny*, Patricia Bassereau*, Jacques Prost
Cooperative extraction of membrane nanotubes by molecular motors
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (49), 17096-17101 (Nov 11, 2009)
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O. Campàs, C. Leduc, P. Bassereau, J.-F. Joanny, J. Prost
Collective oscillations of processive molecular motors
Biophysical Reviews and Letters 4 (01n02), 163-178 (Apr 2009)
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Wouter H. Roos, Otger Campàs, Fabien Montel, Günther Woehlke, Joachim P. Spatz, Patricia Bassereau, Giovanni Cappello
Dynamic kinesin-1 clustering on microtubules due to mutually attractive interactions
Physical biology 5 (4), 046004 (Nov 24, 2008)
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Otger Campàs*, Cécile Leduc, Patricia Bassereau, Jaume Casademunt, Jean-François Joanny, Jacques Prost
Coordination of kinesin motors pulling on fluid membranes
Biophysical journal 94 (12), 5009-5017 (Jun 15, 2008)
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Otger Campàs, Jaume Casademunt, Ignacio Pagonabarraga
Dynamic stability of spindles controlled by molecular motor kinetics
Europhysics Letters 81 (4), 48003 (Jan 17, 2008)
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Léa Trichet, Otger Campàs, Cécile Sykes, Julie Plastino*
VASP Governs Actin Dynamics by Modulating Filament Anchoring
Biophysical journal 92 (3), 1081-1089 (Feb 1, 2007)
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Otger Campàs, Pierre Sens
Chromosome oscillations in mitosis
Physical review letters 97 (12), 128102 (Sep 19, 2006)
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O. Campàs, Y. Kafri, K. B. Zeldovich, J. Casademunt, J.-F. Joanny
Collective dynamics of interacting molecular motors
Physical review letters 97 (3), 038101 (Jul 19, 2006)
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O. Campàs, J. F. Joanny, J. Prost
Actin-based motility of droplets
The Physics of Complex Systems (New Advances and Perspectives), 495-500 (Dec 2004)
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Hakim Boukellal, Otger Campás, Jean-François Joanny, Jacques Prost, Cécile Sykes
Soft Listeria: actin-based propulsion of liquid drops
Phys. Rev. E 69 061906 (Jun 2, 2004)
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