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How do cells communicate to build tissues?
2014/05/21
How do cells communicate with each other to control the size and shape of tissues and animals? How does this work during development of embyros? How does it go wrong in cancer? Work over the last decades has uncovered many of the molecular strategies that cells use to communicate information and build a bewildering variety of different biological forms. Remarkably similar mechanisms govern growth and pattern formation from humans to fruitflies – this is why understanding the pattern of hairs on the abdomen of a fly larva has been able to teach us so much about the breakdown in cell communication that leads to cancer.
Dr. Suzanne Eaton
Suzanne Eaton obtained her Ph.D in Microbiology at the University of California in Los Angeles. She then moved into a one Post Docs in San Francisco followed by one in Germany, working with fruit fly development. She started her own group in 2000 in the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany. Her lab is interested in understanding how do cell specific mechanisms can be coordinated in a global level to define how tissues and animals develop. She has done brilliant work on how cells know how to generate animals and tissues of different sizes and shapes. This knowledge may help us understand basic mechanisms underlying cancer.
