BELS Seminar : Professor Zev Gartner // Tuesday March 14th - 3:30pm

Speaker:

Professor Zev Gartner

Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF

Date and Location:

Tuesday March 14th, 2023, 3:30pm

Chen 100

Hosted By:

Sammy Shaker

Greer Lab

Title: Building tissues to understand how tissues build themselves

Abstract: Cells assemble into tissues and organs through a process termed self-organization. However, the underlying principles guiding tissue self-organization remain poorly understood. My lab aims to reveal and ultimately harness the principles of self-organization to advance regenerative medicine and to halt the progression of diseases like cancer. I will discuss some of our recent efforts to understand how cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interfacial mechanics and their fluctuations contribute to tissue patterning in the mammary gland and small intestine. I will discuss how the relationship between these processes sets an upper limit to tissue structural order and provides a framework to more precisely engineer tissues in vitro.

For more information - Please contact Kenya Zeigler