Elena Scarpa

About

Group Leader, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

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

 

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
     

 

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