Vito Conte
RESEARCH PROFILE
Vito Conte is a scientist in the engineering and physics of biological systems. He is a tenure-track assistant professor in Synthetic Morphogenesis at the TU/e Department of Biomedical Engineering and a group leader of the Synthetic Morphogenesis group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia in Barcelona. Vito Conte advances cross-disciplinary research at the interface between biology, physics and engineering by investigating the mechanical biology and the biological mechanics of development and disease in living tissues and organisms through multidisciplinary approaches combining in vivo, in vitro and in silico techniques.
I use the laws of physics to unleash the mighty power of biology
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Vito Conte received his MPhys in theoretical physics from the University of Naples Federico II (2005) and his PhD in biomechanical engineering (2009) from the King's College London under the supervision of Mark Miodownik MBE. Vito continued investigating as a postdoctoral researcher in the Miodownik group before joining the Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics Group led by Xavier Trepat at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Barcelona, first as a postdoctoral researcher (2011) and later as a Juan-de-la-Cierva fellow (2013). He went on to became a Ramon-y-Cajal fellow at the same institute (2016), where he now leads the Mechanics of Development and Disease group. In May 2018 Vito also joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Cell-Matrix Interaction for Cardiovascular Tissue Regeneration unit led by Carlijn Bouten.
Recent Publications
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Janine Grolleman,Nicole C.A. van Engeland,Minahil Raza,Sepinoud Azimi,Vito Conte,Cecilia M. Sahlgren,Carlijn V.C. Bouten
Environmental stiffness restores mechanical homeostasis in vimentin-depleted cells
Scientific Reports (2023) -
Dylan Mostert,Janine Grolleman,Mark C. van Turnhout,Bart G.W. Groenen,Vito Conte,Cecilia M. Sahlgren,Nicholas A. Kurniawan,Carlijn V.C. Bouten
SFAlab
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2023) -
Agata Nyga,José J. Muñoz,Giulia Fornabaio,Marina Uroz,Xavier Trepat,Buzz Baum,Helen K. Matthews,Vito Conte
Oncogenic RAS instructs morphological transformation of human epithelia via differential tissue mechanics.
Science Advances (2021) -
Marina Uroz,Anna Garcia-Puig,Isil Tekeli,Alberto Elosegui-Artola,Juan F. Abenza,Ariadna Marín-Llauradó,Silvia Pujals,Vito Conte,Lorenzo Albertazzi,Pere Roca-Cusachs
Traction forces at the cytokinetic ring regulate cell division and polyploidy in the migrating zebrafish epicardium
Nature Materials (2019) -
Marina Uroz,Sabrina Wistorf,Xavier Serra-Picamal,Vito Conte,Marta Sales-Pardo,Pere Roca-Cusachs,Roger Guimerà,Xavier Trepat
Regulation of cell cycle progression by cell-cell and cell-matrix forces
Nature Cell Biology (2018)
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