Theory of active self-organization of dense nematic structures in actin gels
Waleed Mirza, Marco De Corato, Marco Pensalfini, Guillermo Vilanova, Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Marino Arroyo. eLife 13:RP93097 (2024).
Finite Element Method
Theory of multiscale epithelial mechanics under stretch: from active gels to vertex models
Adam Ouzeri, Sohan Kale, Nimesh Chahare, Alejandro Torres-Sanchez, Daniel Santos-Olivan, Xavier Trepat, Marino Arroyo. bioRxiv (2025).
Mechanical fracturing of the extracellular matrix patterns the vertebrate heart
Christopher Chan Jin Jie, Daniel Santos-Oliván, Marie-Christine Ramel, Juliana Sánchez-Posada, Toby GR Andrews, Priscilla Paizakis, Emily S Noël, Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Rashmi Priya. bioRxiv (2025).
Mechanisms enabling efficient fountain-flow supracellular migration
Jordi Font-Reverter, Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Guillermo Vilanova, Marino Arroyo. arXiv 2403.11969 (2024).
Polarity-driven three-dimensional spontaneous rotation of a cell doublet
Linjie Lu , Tristan Guyomar, Quentin Vagne, Rémi Berthoz, Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Michèle Lieb, Cecilie Martin-Lemaitre, Kobus van Unen, Alf Honigmann, Olivier Pertz, Guillaume Salbreux, Daniel Riveline. Nature Physics 20, 1194–1203 (2024).
Patterning and dynamics of membrane adhesion under hydraulic stress
Céline Dinet, Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Roberta Lanfranco, Lorenzo Di Michele, Marino Arroyo, Margarita Staykova. Nature Communications 14, 7445 (2023).
Variational formulation of active nematics: theory and simulation
Waleed Mirza, Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Guillermo Vilanova, Marino Arroyo. arXiv (2023).
Mapping mechanical stress in curved epithelia of designed size and shape
Ariadna Marín-Llauradó, Sohan Kale, Adam Ouzeri, Raimon Sunyer, Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Ernest Latorre, Manuel Gómez-González, Pere Roca-Cusachs, Marino Arroyo, Xavier Trepat. Nature Communications 14, 4014 (2022).
Interacting active surfaces: a model for three-dimensional cell aggregates
Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Max Kerr Winter, Guillaume Salbreux. PLoS Comput Biol 18(12): e1010762.
ECM degradation in the Drosophila abdominal epidermis initiates tissue growth that ceases with rapid cell-cycle exit
Anna P Ainslie, John Robert Davis, John J Williamson, Ana Ferreira, Alejandro Torres-Sánchez, Andreas Hoppe, Federica Mangione, Matthew B Smith, Enrique Martin-Blanco, Guillaume Salbreux, Nicolas Tapon. Current Biology (2022).