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 AreasDevelopment
Cell migration
Neural crest
Mechanics
Neuroblastoma
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Techniques
Embryology
Microscopy
Quantitative imaging
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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 |
