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The eating habits of healthy and diseased cells
Wednesday, 18th of May 2016
This event is a collaboration with The Company of Biologists. There will be free food and free drinks.
A podcast of this talk is available on the KEWO Science website
How do the cells in our body acquire nutrients? In what way do they behave differently from single-cell organisms such as yeast? And how do the bad eating habits of cancer cells contribute to disease development? Over the past decade, researchers have uncovered fascinating insights into the impact of cellular metabolism on growth and proliferation. This work has identified signaling pathways that instruct cells to engage in nutrient uptake and to rewire their metabolism for the production of new biomass. Many of these pathways become dysregulated in cancer, which helps explain how tumors can fuel their uncontrolled growth.
Dr. Wilhelm Palm obtained his PhD in biology at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany. He currently is a Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His research focuses on the regulation of metabolism by oncogenic signaling pathways, and its role in cell growth and proliferation. He has identified novel strategies by which mammalian cells can acquire nutrients and how this allows cancer cells to escape starvation.
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