All are welcome, (attendance required for graduate students). Lunch is provided.

Zev Gartner, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco

Building tissues to understand how tissues build themselves.

The Gartner lab aims to define the physical and chemical mechanism that cells use to self-organize, to reveal how tissue structure guides the flow of chemical, mechanical, and electrical information between cells, and to understand how this information coordinates collective cell decisions and behaviors. A better understanding of these processes will guide the development of new therapies for regenerative medicine and new strategies to block the progression of cancer. The lab apply concepts and methods from chemistry, biology, and engineering; and we develop new and enabling technologies when existing methods are insufficient for our experimental needs.