Highlights for 2019
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The Mendoza laboratory strives to understand the biochemical signals that drive cell motility and the consequences of their activation during cancer progression.
Cell motility is essential to embryogenesis, immune response, wound healing, and cancer metastasis. During this process, iterative cycles of edge protrusion and retraction, adhesion to the extracellular matrix, and cell body contraction propel cells forward. The distinct motility structures and steps are mechanistically coupled and their dynamics are temporally coordinated. Control is mediated by physical forces and chemical signals.
Questions in the Mendoza lab span the range of fundamental investigation into mechanisms of cytoskeleton control and modeling cancer invasion and metastasis in vivo:
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News, New Lab Members, and Awards... Read More