Julio Monti Belmonte

Thayambath, A., & Belmonte, J. M. (2026, February 12). Start small: A model for tissue-wide planar cell polarity without morphogens (C. Copos, Ed.). PLoS Computational Biology. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013938

Norman, M. J., Leske, A., & Belmonte, J. M. (2025, June 16). Connectivity and Contraction in Cytoskeletal Networks. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.12.659219

Gomez, J. M., Bevilacqua, C., Thayambath, A., Heriche, J.-K., Leptin, M., Belmonte, J. M., & Prevedel, R. (2025, July 14). Highly dynamic mechanical transitions in embryonic cell populations during Drosophila gastrulation. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61702-4

Thayambath, A., & Belmonte, J. M. (2025, May 30). Start Small: A Model for Tissue-wide Planar Cell Polarity without Morphogens. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.26.655839

Dar, S., Moreno, R. T., Palaia, I., Gopalan, A. B., Sun, Z. G., Strauss, L., … Diz-Muñoz, A. (2024, October 14). Caging of membrane-to-cortex attachment proteins can trigger cellular symmetry breaking. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.14.618153

Gomez, J. M., Bevilacqua, C., Thayambath, A., Leptin, M., Belmonte, J. M., & Prevedel, R. (2024, August 30). Highly dynamic mechanical transitions in embryonic cell populations during <i>Drosophila</i> gastrulation. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.29.610383

Bellingham-Johnstun, K., Thorn, A., Belmonte, J., & Laplante, C. (2023, February 1). Microtubule competition and cell growth recenter the nucleus after anaphase in fission yeast. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.31.526443

Silva, A. M., Chan, F.-Y., Norman, M. J., Sobral, A. F., Zanin, E., Gassmann, R., … Carvalho, A. X. (2022, October 11). β-heavy-spectrin stabilizes the constricting contractile ring during cytokinesis. The Journal of Cell Biology. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202202024

Adhyapok, P., Piatkowska, A. M., Norman, M. J., Clendenon, S. G., Stern, C. D., Glazier, J. A., & Belmonte, J. M. (2021, March 18). A mechanical model of early somite segmentation. IScience, Vol. 24, p. 102317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102317

Bhide, S., Gombalova, D., Mönke, G., Stegmaier, J., Zinchenko, V., Kreshuk, A., … Leptin, M. (2021, July 31). Mechanical competition alters the cellular interpretation of an endogenous genetic program. The Journal of Cell Biology. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202104107

Sobral, A. F., Chan, F.-Y., Norman, M. J., Osório, D. S., Dias, A. B., Ferreira, V., … Carvalho, A. X. (2021, October 19). Plastin and spectrin cooperate to stabilize the actomyosin cortex during cytokinesis. Current Biology, Vol. 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.055

Lesnicar-Pucko, G., Belmonte, J. M., Musy, M., Glazier, J. A., & Sharpe, J. (2020, September 11). Cellular mechanisms of chick limb bud morphogenesis. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.10.292359

Fortuna, I., Perrone, G. C., Krug, M. S., Susin, E., Belmonte, J. M., Thomas, G. L., … Almeida, R. M. C. (2020, April 29). CompuCell3D Simulations Reproduce Mesenchymal Cell Migration on Flat Substrates. Biophysical Journal, Vol. 118, pp. 2801–2815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2020.04.024

Bhide, S., Gombalova, D., Mönke, G., Stegmaier, J., Zinchenko, V., Kreshuk, A., … Leptin, M. (2020, October 15). Mechanical competition alters the cellular interpretation of an endogenous genetic programme. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.15.333963

Thomas, G. L., Fortuna, I., Perrone, G. C., Glazier, J. A., Belmonte, J. M., & Almeida, R. M. C. (2020, March 25). Parameterizing cell movement when the instantaneous cell migration velocity is ill-defined. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2020.124493

Adhyapok, P., Piatkowska, A. M., Norman, M. J., Clendenon, S. G., Stern, C. D., Glazier, J. A., & Belmonte, J. M. (2019, October 13). A Mechanical Model of Early Somite Segmentation. https://doi.org/10.1101/804203

Bun, P., Dmitrieff, S., Belmonte, J. M., Nédélec, F. J., & Lénárt, P. (2018, January 19). A disassembly-driven mechanism explains F-actin-mediated chromosome transport in starfish oocytes. ELife, Vol. 7. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.31469

Rognoni, E., Pisco, A. O., Hiratsuka, T., Sipilä, K. H., Belmonte, J. M., Mobasseri, S. A., … Watt, F. M. (2018, August 1). Fibroblast state switching orchestrates dermal maturation and wound healing. Molecular Systems Biology, Vol. 14. https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20178174

Wollrab, V., Belmonte, J. M., Baldauf, L., Leptin, M., Nédeléc, F., & Koenderink, G. H. (2018, November 8). Polarity sorting drives remodeling of actin-myosin networks. Journal of Cell Science. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.219717

Chen, K. Y., Srinivasan, T., Tung, K. L., Belmonte, J. M., Wang, L., Murthy, P. K. L., … Shen, X. (2017, April 1). A Notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self‐renewal. Molecular Systems Biology, Vol. 13, p. 927. https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20167324

Belmonte, J. M., Leptin, M., & Nédélec, F. (2017, September 1). A theory that predicts behaviors of disordered cytoskeletal networks. Molecular Systems Biology, Vol. 13, p. 941. https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20177796

Belmonte, J., Leptin, M., & François, N. (2017, May 16). A theory that predicts behaviors of disordered cytoskeletal networks. BioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/138537

Sluka, J. P., Fu, X., Swat, M., Belmonte, J. M., Cosmanescu, A., Clendenon, S. G., … Glazier, J. A. (2016, September 16). A Liver-Centric Multiscale Modeling Framework for Xenobiotics (E. E. Schmidt, Ed.). PLoS ONE, Vol. 11, p. e0162428. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162428

Belmonte, J. M., Swat, M. H., & Glazier, J. A. (2016, June 20). Filopodial-Tension Model of Convergent-Extension of Tissues (T. Tusscher, Ed.). PLoS Computational Biology, Vol. 12, p. e1004952. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004952

Belmonte, J. M., & Nédélec, F. (2016, February 12). Large-scale microtubule networks contract quite well. ELife, Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.14076

Belmonte, J. M., Clendenon, S. G., Oliveira, G. M., Swat, M. H., Greene, E. V., Jeyaraman, S., … Bacallao, R. L. (2016, May 19). Virtual-tissue computer simulations define the roles of cell adhesion and proliferation in the onset of kidney cystic disease. Molecular Biology of the Cell, Vol. 27, pp. 3673–3685. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E16-01-0059

Thomas, G. L., Belmonte, J. M., Graner, F., Glazier, J. A., & Almeida, R. M. C. (2015, February 13). 3D simulations of wet foam coarsening evidence a self similar growth regime. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Vol. 473, pp. 109–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2015.02.015

Dias, A. S., Almeida, I., Belmonte, J. M., Glazier, J. A., & Stern, C. D. (2014, January 10). Somites Without a Clock. Science, Vol. 343, pp. 791–795. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1247575

Swat, M. H., Thomas, G. L., Belmonte, J. M., Shirinifard, A., Hmeljak, D., Glazier, J. A., … Arkin, A. P. (2012, January 1). Multi-Scale Modeling of Tissues Using CompuCell3D. Methods in Cell Biology, Vol. 110, pp. 325–366. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-388403-9.00013-8

Hester, S. D., Belmonte, J. M., Gens, J. S., Clendenon, S. G., & Glazier, J. A. (2011, October 6). A Multi-cell, Multi-scale Model of Vertebrate Segmentation and Somite Formation. PLoS Computational Biology, Vol. 7. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002155

Belmonte, J. M., Thomas, G. L., Brunnet, L. G., Almeida, R. M. C., & Chaté, H. (2008, June 20). Self-Propelled Particle Model for Cell-Sorting Phenomena. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.248702