Co-hosted by Georgia Tech's Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. 

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

Hybrid Event

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ABSTRACT
Tissues build themselves through a process called self-organization. How can we predict the quantitative outcome of self-organization from the measurable properties of cellular building blocks? How do neighboring tissues canalize self-organization towards complex and reproducible endpoints? What are generalizable principles that we can use to engineer self-organization to improve health and fight disease? I will discuss recent studies from my group shedding light on these questions and describe new technologies and analysis tools facilitating our efforts.

BIO
The Gartner laboratory is working to understand how cells self-organize into tissues, how the structure of tissues help regulate cell behaviors, and how tissue structure breaks down in diseases like cancer. By understanding these processes we hope to reveal general principles contributing to cancer progression, to speed the development of new drugs, and to develop new strategies for regenerative medicine. To accomplish these goals we build, perturb, and model human tissues in vitro using techniques from the chemical, physical, and biological sciences.