Clare Yu
SFI Seminar
Monday, April 29 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe
A Physicist Looks at Cancer, Tumor Location, and the Tumor Environment
Clare Yu, University of California, Irvine
Abstract: I will discuss what physics can bring to cancer biology, and the types of questions that physicists can ask such as “Why does a tumor grow where it does?” and “How does the microenvironment of a tumor affect its growth?”
Cancer cells do not act alone. They get their cues from the their environment which consists of the extracellular matrix Read More