From crawlers to swimmers- mathematical and computational problems in cell motility

12 Jul 2018, 10:30
30m
New Law School/--024 (University of Sydney)

New Law School/--024

University of Sydney

100
Oral Presentation Minisymposium: Mathematical models of cell motility and cancer progression in microenvironment Mathematical models of cell motility and cancer progression in microenvironment: design, experiments, mathematical framework, and hypothesis test

Speaker

Prof. Hans Othmer (University of Minnesota)

Description

Cell locomotion is essential for early development, angiogenesis, tissue regeneration, the immune response, and wound healing in multicellular organisms, and plays a very deleterious role in cancer metastasis in humans. Locomotion involves the detection and transduction of extracellular chemical and mechanical signals, integration of the signals into an intracellular signal, and the spatio-temporal control of the intracellular biochemical and mechanical responses that lead to force generation, morphological changes and directed movement. We will discuss some of the mathematical and computational challenges that the integration of these processes poses and describe recent progress on some component processes.

Primary author

Prof. Hans Othmer (University of Minnesota)

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