Vito Conte
Scientist
Bioengineering and biophysics
Parc Cientific de Barcelona
Spain
Biography
Vito is a scientist in bioengineering and biophysics. He received his MPhys in Theoretical Physics cum laude from the University of Naples Federico II and his PhD in computational biomechanics from King's College London in 2009 under the supervision of Mark Miodownik. He continued investigating as a postdoctoral researcher in the Miodownik group until 2011 before joining as a postdoctoral researcher the Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics Group led by Xavier Trepat at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Barcelona until 2015. Vito became a Ramon-y-Cajal fellow and Junior PI at the IBEC in 2016. His investigations aim at understanding the physical mechanisms of development and disease in biological organisms through multidisciplinary approaches combining in vivo, in vitro and in silico techniques.
Research Interest
Mechanics of Development and Disease
Publications
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Bazellières, Elsa, Conte, Vito, Elosegui, Alberto, Serra-Picamal, Xavier, Bintanel-Morcillo, MarÃa, Roca-Cusachs, Pere, Muñoz, José J., Sales-Pardo, Marta, Guimerà , Roger, Trepat, Xavier, (2015). Control of cell-cell forces and collective cell dynamics by the intercellular adhesome Nature Cell Biology 17, (4), 409-420
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Sunyer, R., Conte, V., Escribano, J., Elosegui-Artola, A., Labernadie, A., Valon, L., Navajas, D., GarcÃa-Aznar, J. M., Muñoz, J. J., Roca-Cusachs, P., Trepat, X., (2016). Collective cell durotaxis emerges from long-range intercellular force transmission Science 353, (6304), 1157-1161
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Roca-Cusachs, Pere, Conte, Vito, Trepat, Xavier, (2017). Quantifying forces in cell biology Nature Cell Biology 19, (7), 742-751
