The editorial team at The Caltech Effect gave five Caltech postdoctoral scholars and graduate students a challenge: “Using the simplest terms possible, tell us about a concept related to your research.”
Ezgi Kunttas, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Marianne Bronner, Caltech’s Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, discusses collective cell migration. Kunttas says: “You can imagine in nature a lot of organisms migrate. For example, birds migrate, monarch butterflies migrate very long distances, and, believe it or not, in our bodies also, collective cell migration happens.” In basic human development, collective cell migration leads to the creation of essential structures such as the bones in the body. And this collective migration is performed by immune cells in response to an injury as well as cancerous cells as they try to invade healthy tissues.
Kunttas’s research centers on learning how cells communicate with each other while they are migrating.
See more stories behind Break Through: The Caltech Campaign at [ Ссылка ]
Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2018 California Institute of Technology
