Elena Scarpa
- Group Leader, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
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Elena Scarpa studies the stresses on cells while moving through the body, that can lead to errors during cell division and promote cancer, focussing on a population of highly migratory embryonic cells called neural crest cells, which move through narrow spaces in fish embryos during their physiological migration. Learn more about Elena's research.
Research Areas
- Development
- Cell migration
- Neural crest
- Mechanics
- Neuroblastoma
Techniques
- Embryology
- Microscopy
- Quantitative imaging
Areas for Collaboration
- Microfabrication and bioengineering tests for human trunk neural crest cells in vivo hypotheses
- Physical and mathematical in vivo confined migration models
- Human neuroblastoma tissue/cell samples