Past Seminars
Prof Jeffrey Fredberg
Harvard University
Geometry of cell jamming: New biology, surprising physics, and useful ideas about epithelial layers.
Prof Brian Camley
John Hopkins
Rules of Contact Inhibition of Locomotion for Cells on Suspended Nanofibers
David Bruekner
LMU Munich
Confined cell migration - a dynamical systems perspective
Cecília G. Magalhães
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Embryonic Surface Epithelia: Livelier than you thought!
Prof Gregory Emery
University of Montreal
Coordinating contractile and propulsive forces during collective cell migration.
Prof Laura Machesky
University of Glasgow
Mechanosensing and metabolic demands in cancer cell migration
Prof Daniel Cohen
Princeton University
Cellular Herding: programming collective cell migration in living tissues using bioelectric cues
Prof Xavier Trepat
IBEC Barcelona
Mechanobiology of epithelial folding and migration in intestinal organoids
Dr Erica Hutchins
California Instirute of Technology
Using live imaging of RNA to unravel the mechanisms of the neural crest epithelial—mesenchymal transition
Dr Lotte de Winde
UCL
Podoplanin drives dedifferentiation and amoeboid invasion of melanoma
Hammed Badmos
University of Liverpool
The requirement of non-stop/USP22 in Drosophila border cell migration
Prof Robert Insall
University of Glasgow
Reverse chemotaxis - how can cells go backwards in a chemotactic gradient?
Dr Anne Reversat
University of Liverpool
Cellular locomotion using environmental topography
Daniel Boocock
IST Austria
Theory of mechano-chemical patterning and optimal migration in cell monolayers
Prof Benoit Ladoux
Institut Jacques Monod
Active behaviors of cellular monolayers
Prof Sandrine Etienne-Manneville
Institut Curie
Cytoskeletal crosstalk during cell migration
Prof Denise Montell
UC Santa Barbara
What do cells do when they get where they are going?
Prof Ming Guo
MIT
Biomechanical imaging of cells, extracellular matrix, and cancer invasion in 3D
Dr Ricard Alert
Princeton University
From topological defects to fruiting bodies in colonies of migrating bacteria
Prof Anna Huttenlocher
University of Wisconsin Madison
Cell migration in situ during wound repair
Dr Andrew Clark
Institut Curie
Viscoelastic relaxation of collagen networks provides a self-generated polarity cue during collective migration
Prof Stephanie Woo
University of California Merced
The early zebrafish endoderm as a model of mesenchymal-to-epithelial transitions
Prof Sally Horne-Badovinac
University of Chicago
Going in circles gets you somewhere – signaling mechanisms that coordinate cell movements for epithelial migration.
Prof Daria Siekhaus
IST Austria
Decreasing tension and increasing energy: what makes tissue invasion easier
Dr Sudha Kumari
MIT
Cytoskeletal networks dictate migratory arrests in lymphocytes
Dr Adrian Jacobo
Rockerfeller University
Cell migrations and symmetric organization of lateral-line sensory organs
Dr Matthias Krause
KCL
Nance-Horan Syndrome-like 1 protein negatively regulates Scar/WAVE-Arp2/3 activity and inhibits lamellipodia stability and cell migration
Prof Jacob Notbohm
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tractions and Stress Fibers Control Cell Shape and Rearrangements in Collective Cell Migration
Dr Yelena Bernadskaya
New York University
Adhesive forces promote effective organization, movement, and leader/trailer cell state during collective cell migration
Prof Pablo Saez
UKE Hamburg
Signal integration during leukocyte chemotaxis in complex microenvironments
Prof Stephan Huveneers
University of Amsterdam
Sensing of forces through endothelial adhesions for collective migration and angiogenesis
Prof Jocelyn McDonald
Kansas State University
Protein Phosphatase 1 controls collective versus single cell migration
Prof Kyra Campbell
University of Sheffield
Making a midgut: mechanisms driving cell migration and MET during Drosophila midgut morphogenesis