Nimesh's Publications

Also on Google Scholar / ORCID. Equal contribution is marked with +.

Research articles

• 2026 Protocol for standardized 3D-to-2D cartography of the chick neural tube using spatchcocking, an open-source Python tool Chahare, N. & Nerurkar, N. L. STAR Protocols (under review) · code
• 2026 Morphometric analysis reveals that the chick cranial neural tube expands as an active shell Chahare, N., Imamura, C., & Nerurkar, N. L. Biophysical Reports, 100280 · code
• 2026 Theory of multiscale epithelial mechanics under stretch: from active gels to vertex models Ouzeri, A., Kale, S., Chahare, N., Torres-Sanchez, A., Santos-Olivan, D., Trepat, X., & Arroyo, M. PRX Life, 4(2), 023022
• 2026 Dynamics of supracellular keratin bundling and nuclear uncaging in stretched epithelia Golde, T., Pensalfini, M., Chahare, N., Roca-Cusachs, P., Wiche, G., Charras, G., … & Trepat, X. Nature Physics
• 2025 Multiscale wrinkling dynamics in epithelial shells Chahare, N., Ouzeri, A., Wilson, T., Bal, P. K., Golde, T., Vilanova, G., … & Arroyo, M. bioRxiv, 2025-06
• 2022 Mechanical force application to the nucleus regulates nucleocytoplasmic transport Andreu, I.+, Granero-Moya, I.+, Chahare, N. R., Clein, K., Jordàn, M. M., Beedle, A. E., … & Roca-Cusachs, P. Nature Cell Biology, 24(6), 896–905
• 2021 The force loading rate drives cell mechanosensing through both reinforcement and cytoskeletal softening Andreu, I.+, Falcones, B.+, Hurst, S., Chahare, N., Quiroga, X., Le Roux, A. L., … & Roca-Cusachs, P. Nature Communications, 12(1), 4229
• 2021 Role of fiber orientations in the mechanics of bioinspired fiber-reinforced elastomers Chatterjee, A., Chahare, N. R., Kondaiah, P., & Gundiah, N. Soft Robotics, 8(6), 640–650
• 2020 Cutting mechanics of wood by beetle larval mandibles Kundanati, L., Chahare, N. R., Jaddivada, S., Karkisaval, A. G., Sridhar, R., Pugno, N. M., & Gundiah, N. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 112, 104027

Patents

• 2025 Cell stretchers: microfluidic device for stretching cells and tissues Chahare, N. R., Le Roux, A., Roca-Cusachs, P., & Trepat, X. European patent application EP25383565.6, filed 30 December 2025
• 2023 A microscope-mountable fluid shear device Chahare, N. R., Pullarkat, P., Vishwakarma, R., & Gundiah, N. Indian patent 471468 (application IN201641029893), granted 24 November 2023

Research software

• 2026 spatchcocking Python framework mapping a curved 3D epithelium to a 2D reference frame and quantifying curvature, tissue thickness and mitotic activity across it. Released with Chahare et al., Biophysical Reports 2026.
• 2022 Nucleocytoplasmic transport analysis tool Measures nuclear import and export rates from FRAP and FLIP data. Released as supplementary software with Andreu et al., Nature Cell Biology 2022.
• 2021 Force loading-rate analysis code Analyzes the atomic force microscopy and optical-tweezer datasets behind the loading-rate dependence. Released as supplementary software with Andreu et al., Nature Communications 2021.

Thesis

• 2023 Mechanics of epithelial layers subjected to controlled pressure Chahare, N. R. Ph.D. thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (cum laude)