Please be invited to a special seminar „Integrating adhesive and polarity cues to make, maintain and restore the epithelial barrier“
by Dr. Carien Niessen, CECAD, University of Cologne, Germany
Tuesday May 21st 14:00-15:00, Seminar room 8-9, Biomedicum 1 P-floor
About Carien:
Carien Niessen is a professor and director of the Cologne Excellence Cluster of Ageing-associated Disease (CECAD). She is a cell biologist and an expert in the role of cell-cell junctions and polarity in organising tissue structure and function. She has made key contributions to our understanding of how different type of cell-cell junctions form in epithelial tissues in vivo and how these junctions regulate critical epithelial functions such as formation and maintenance of the barrier. She is also interested in how metabolism crosstalks with tissue structure to control morphogenesis, homeostasis and disease of the skin. Recent key publications include work on how tight junctions from in the stratified epidermis through catherin mechanotransduction (Rübsam et al., Nature Commun 2017), the molecular mechanism by which adherens junctions control desmosome assembly (Shafraz et al., Elife 2018) and how metabolism and polarity proteins control stem cells and tumorigenesis in the skin (Günschmann Dev Cell 2013, Vorhagen et al., Oncogene 2018, Niessen et al., J Cell Biol 2013).
If you would like to meet with Carien (she will also be available on Monday May 20th), please contact me at sara.wickstrom@helsinki.fi
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