Cell Migration
cell migration
Regulation of Cerebral Cortex Morphogenesis by Migrating Cells
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Making connections: how epithelial tissues guarantee folding
Tissue folding is a ubiquitous shape change event during development whereby a cell sheet bends into a curved 3D structure. This mechanical process is remarkably robust, and the correct final form is almost always achieved despite internal fluctuations and external perturbations inherent in living systems. While many genetic and molecular strategies that lead to robust development have been established, much less is known about how mechanical patterns and movements are ensured at the population level. I will describe how quantitative imaging, physical modeling and concepts from network science can uncover collective interactions that govern tissue patterning and shape change. Actin and myosin are two important cytoskeletal proteins involved in the force generation and movement of cells. Both parts of this talk will be about the spontaneous organization of actomyosin networks and their role in collective tissue dynamics. First, I will present how out-of-plane curvature can trigger the global alignment of actin fibers and a novel transition from collective to individual cell migration in culture. I will then describe how tissue-scale cytoskeletal patterns can guide tissue folding in the early fruit fly embryo. I will show that actin and myosin organize into a network that spans a domain of the embryo that will fold. Redundancy in this supracellular network encodes the tissue’s intrinsic robustness to mechanical and molecular perturbations during folding.
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Physical force regulation in cell migration
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“Rigidity and Fluidity in Biological Tissue”
The coordinated migration of groups of cells underlies many biological processes, including embryo development, wound healing and cancer metastasis. In many of these situations, tissues are able to tune themselves between liquid-like states, where cells flow collectively as in a liquid, and solid-like states that can support shear stresses. In this talk I will describe mesoscopic models of cell assemblies inspired by active matter physics to examine the roles of cell motility, cell crowding and the interplay of contractility and adhesion in controlling the rheological state of biological tissue.
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Cell migration promotes dynamic cellular interactions to control cerebral cortex morphogenesis
Human BBB-on-a-chip reveals barrier disruption, endothelial inflammation, and T cell migration under neuroinflammatory conditions
FENS Forum 2024
Role of Na+/Ca2+ exchanger NCX in glioblastoma cell migration
FENS Forum 2024