Event Detail (Archived)

Squish and Squeeze—Nuclear Mechanics in Cancer Cell Migration in 3D Environments

  • This event already took place in November 2016
  • 116 Rockefeller Research Laboratories, MSKCC, 430 E. 67th St.

Event Details

Type
Cell Biology Seminars
Speaker(s)
Jan Lammerding, Ph.D., associate professor, department of biomedical engineering and the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University
Open to
Public
Host
Dr. Philipp Niethammer
Reception
Tea, 1:45 p.m.
Contact
Brianne Cimaglia
Phone
(646) 888-3712
Sponsor
Rianna Dyal
(646) 888-3713
dyalr@mskcc.org

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