University of California, Berkeley
Modeling how physical forces shape living systems
The Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory studies biological systems across scales, combining mechanobiology, molecular modeling, and data-driven methods to better understand how structure, force, and dynamics influence function.
Research Areas
Cell & Nuclear Biomechanics
Cell and nuclear mechanics, force transmission across the nuclear envelope, and structure-function relationships at the cell-nucleus interface.
Microbiome & Bacterial Community Biomechanics
Biomechanics and multiscale modeling of host-microbe systems, bacterial communities, gut biogeography, and ecological dynamics.
Statistical Learning & Biological Language Processing
Statistical learning, biological language processing, and model-driven discovery across sequence, genome, and microbiome data.
Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory
403 Publications
2025
SIMBA-GNN: mechanistic graph learning for microbiome prediction
· npj Systems Biology and Applications
2025
Systems biology and microbiome innovations for personalized diabetic retinopathy manage...
· npj Systems Biology and Applications
2025
Expanding the HP1a-binding consensus and molecular grammar for heterochromatin assembly
· Nucleic Acids Research
2025
Computational drug design in the artificial intelligence era: A systematic review of mo...
· Pharmacological Reviews
2025
Emerging mechanomedicines informed by mechanotransduction along the integrin–cytoskelet...
· APL Bioengineering
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