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Our conferences in October

Our conferences in October

IMPETUX at three key mechanobiology conferences this October

This October, IMPETUX will be actively participating and supporting three international conferences dedicated to exploring the physics and mechanics of living systems. Our team will be sharing how SENSOCELL optical tweezers enable researchers to quantify forces and mechanical properties inside living cells — helping to advance our understanding of cellular and nuclear mechanobiology.

FASEB Science Research Conference – Mechanobiology of the Nucleus

Melbourne, Florida (USA)
October 26–30, 2025
IMPETUX is proud to sponsor this meeting focused on the interplay between nuclear architecture, gene regulation, and mechanics.
Our Application Scientist Frederic Català Castro will present a short talk on:

“SENSOCELL: Deciphering cell mechanobiology through optical tweezer force spectroscopy”
October 27th, 12:30–12:40 pm

Conference website

⚛️ Physics of Life Days 2025

Institut Jacques Monod, Paris (France)
October 2–3, 2025
This interdisciplinary meeting brings together physicists and biologists to discuss the latest developments in physical approaches to living systems.
IMPETUX will be there to showcase the latest capabilities of our technology for in vivo force spectroscopy and cell mechanics research. In collaboration with our friends at the Romet-Lemone /Jegou lab we organized demos of our SENSOCELL optical tweezers.

Conference website

CellMech 2025 – Cell Mechanics: from Single Molecules to Tissues

Leuven (Belgium)
September 29 – October 3, 2025
This international conference covers cutting-edge research in cell and tissue mechanics. Visit our booth to discuss your projects and discover how SENSOCELL can bring quantitative force measurements into your live-cell experiments.

Conference website

We’re looking forward to meeting the scientific community throughout October and support research in cell mechanobiology and biophysical instrumentation.

More news:

Fig. 1

Time dependence of trap position (top), force signal (middle) and Ca2+ fluorescence signal (bottom) recorded during a membrane tether pulling experiment. The force and Ca2+ ion channel activity signals exhibit negative correlation.

Fig. 2

Force and displacement data for two beads stimulated at frequencies of 4 Hz and 0.25 Hz. The progressive reduction of the beads displacement is in concomitancy with an increase of the applied force and loading rate.

Fig. 1

Schematic representation of the optical tweezers experiment. A fibronectin-coated bead is trapped, brought into contact with the cell membrane and stimulated with oscillations at different frequencies.

Fig.2

Time dependence of trap 1 and trap 2 position (top) and force (bottom) data along the different steps of the described dual tether pulling experiment.

Fig.1

Confocal video of the described dual tether pulling assay performed on a neuron axon. Courtesy of M. Krieg lab (ICFO).

Fig. 1

Time dependence of trap position (top), force signal (middle) and Ca2+ fluorescence signal (bottom) recorded during a membrane tether pulling experiment. The force and Ca2+ ion channel activity signals exhibit negative correlation.

Video 1

Confocal video showing a DVA neuron Ca2+ ion channel activity in a dynamic optical trapping assay. The pulling rate applied to the membrane tether is progressively increased. Scale bar = 5µm. Acquired at 10Hz.