Past Seminars

Geometry of cell jamming: New biology, surprising physics, and useful ideas about epithelial layers.

Rules of Contact Inhibition of Locomotion for Cells on Suspended Nanofibers

Decreasing tension and increasing energy: what makes tissue invasion easier

Cytoskeletal networks dictate migratory arrests in lymphocytes

Cell migrations and symmetric organization of lateral-line sensory organs

Coordinating contractile and propulsive forces during collective cell migration.

Dynamic morphoskeletons in development

Mechanosensing and metabolic demands in cancer cell migration

Adhesive forces promote effective organization, movement, and leader/trailer cell state during collective cell migration

Mechanobiology of epithelial folding and migration in intestinal organoids

Using live imaging of RNA to unravel the mechanisms of the neural crest epithelial—mesenchymal transition

The early zebrafish endoderm as a model of mesenchymal-to-epithelial transitions

Making a midgut: mechanisms driving cell migration and MET during Drosophila midgut morphogenesis

Reverse chemotaxis - how can cells go backwards in a chemotactic gradient?

Cellular locomotion using environmental topography

Theory of mechano-chemical patterning and optimal migration in cell monolayers

Active behaviors of cellular monolayers

Cytoskeletal crosstalk during cell migration

What do cells do when they get where they are going?

One dimensional cell motility patterns

Focal Adhesion Stability Controls Tissue Invasion

Signal integration during leukocyte chemotaxis in complex microenvironments

Cell migration in situ during wound repair

Protein Phosphatase 1 controls collective versus single cell migration

Podoplanin drives dedifferentiation and amoeboid invasion of melanoma

Going in circles gets you somewhere – signaling mechanisms that coordinate cell movements for epithelial migration.

Confined cell migration - a dynamical systems perspective

Embryonic Surface Epithelia: Livelier than you thought!

Mech(n)anobiology of dendritic cells

Nance-Horan Syndrome-like 1 protein negatively regulates Scar/WAVE-Arp2/3 activity and inhibits lamellipodia stability and cell migration

Tractions and Stress Fibers Control Cell Shape and Rearrangements in Collective Cell Migration

Biomechanical imaging of cells, extracellular matrix, and cancer invasion in 3D

Cellular Herding: programming collective cell migration in living tissues using bioelectric cues

From topological defects to fruiting bodies in colonies of migrating bacteria

Sensing of forces through endothelial adhesions for collective migration and angiogenesis

Viscoelastic relaxation of collagen networks provides a self-generated polarity cue during collective migration

The requirement of non-stop/USP22 in Drosophila border cell migration