Fluid on soft, solid on stiff
Large-scale cell sensing of environmental rigidity
soSPIM Developed at MBI
Microfabrication leads to a new microscopy method
Circulating Tumor Cells
Culturing tumor cells to predict treatment outcome
Forces: Acting Far and Wide
How local forces induce distant effects on actin remodeling
Surviving Immune Attack
How does Salmonella thrive in the acidic macrophage?
Lipid Anchors Sustain Life
A role for GPI-anchored proteins in epithelium integrity
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.
