Sirio Dupont currently works at the Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, as Group Leader and Assistant Professor in Histology. Sirio led the discovery of the YAP/TAZ factors as readers and mediators of ECM mechanical cues, and his laboratory is now interested in developing genetic tools to study the functional relevance of YAP/TAZ mechanotransduction in vivo, and in exploring new pathways regulated by ECM mechanical cues.