Overview
Topic status: We're looking for students to study this topic.
Cell-to-cell adhesion plays an important role in wound healing and cancer progression. Modelling cell-to-cell adhesion in a mixture of different cell types can involve differential adhesion between the different cell types leading to a variety of behaviours such as checker board patterns, engulfment and segregation. This project will use an interacting particle random walk method to recreate different cell sorting patterns and will involve collaboration with experimentalists who will generate experimental observations of the same cell sorting procedure. This project involves numerical computation and interactions with experimental cell biologists.
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Dr Mat Simpson (matthew.simpson@qut.edu.au | +61 7 3138 5241 | Room: GP-O511)
Dr Matthew Simpson
