BIOE Seminar: Kandice Tanner (NCI)

Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Virtual
Micaela Everitt
meveritt@umd.edu

*BGSS Students' Choice Seminar*
Kandice Tanner 
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cell Biology
National Cancer Institute

This event will be offered in a virtual format. Login details will be sent to current BIOE faculty, affiliates, students, postdocs, and those who have previously asked to subscribe to our seminars listserv. If you do not currently receive our weekly seminars emails but you wish to attend this event, please email Alyssa Tomlinson (awolice@umd.edu).

Background
The Tanner lab focuses on understanding the metastatic traits that allow tumor cells to colonize secondary organs. The interdisciplinary team includes physicists, engineers and cancer biologists. Tanner and her researchers have determined that cells can switch between different types of motility namely rotation, random and amoeboid when placed in 3D biomimetic platforms. They have linked the type of motility to the establishment of distinct multicellular architectures and tissue polarity. They leverage their expertise in optical microscopy to uncover in vivo mechanisms of metastasis using zebrafish as an animal model. Their current studies are focused on understanding how physical cues from the tissue microenvironment drive organ specific metastasis.

Audience: Public 

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