EMBO 2013 Physical Biology of Cancer
Workshop - Italy
Cell-cell and cell-microenvironment interactions are important factors in the process of tumorigenesis and cancer progression. Emerging evidence points at the pivotal role of physical and mechanical interactions in regulating growth, proliferation, and migration. We aim at bringing together physicists and biologists to exchange knowledge on this rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary research.
Quantitative, physics-based methods are increasingly used in biology. Such methods include for instance accurate measurements of intercellular forces, cell trajectories, real-time dynamics of growing tissues, rheological properties of cell aggregates. Such data are often integrated by mathematical models that allow to bridge the gap between the microscopic knowledge about molecular interactions and the observed large-scale behavior of cells and tissues. The use of modern, physics-based methods is especially compelling for the study of cancer. While an increasing number of molecular details that stand at the basis of cancer is becoming available, their complex interplay in determining the pathology is still poorly understood.
(Courtesy of cancer cells, via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer)
EMBO 2013 Physical Biology of Cancer
Thu, Mar 07, 2013 - Sun, Mar 10, 2013
Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (IRCC)
Strada Provinciale 142, Km. 3.95, 10060 Candiolo (Torino), Italy
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