Elongation by Contraction
Pulling forces drive changes in cell shape
Decisions in a Pinch
Receptor Tyrosince Kinases control mechanosensors
A Cellular Shock Absorber
How talin structure makes it an ideal force buffer
Agarwal Priti
Alumni, Zaidel-Bar Group
Multicolor Super Resolution Imaging
A method to monitor dynamic protein binding at subsecond timescales
Shaping Lumens by Force
How extracellular matrix scaffolding guides lumen elongation
Zhang Shaobo
Alumni
I joined the Saunders group on an internship as part of my Final Year Project during undergraduate study. The internship has been an amazing experience and helped me make up my mind to continue my journey in the mechanics of development – an exciting field which requires the integration of biology, physics, computer science and engineering.
My background during undergraduate study is in Bioinformatics (at Shanghai Jiao Tong University), and this has prepared me well for future exploration. I hope to use quantitative analysis techniques to study robust and precise cell matching processes. By applying embryonic Drosophila heart formation as a simplified matching system, I am looking forward to deciphering the deeper mechanisms of the cell targeting process about how cells find their partners in a complicated environment.
