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* University of Utah Mathematical Biology Seminar *
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Thursday, April 22 at 4 pm in INSCC 110


Speaker:  Eirikur Palsson (U of U Math)

Title:  A three dimensional model of cell movement in multicellular systems.


Abstract: 

We have developed a mathematical model of cell movement in
multicellular systems and tissues. This model allows us to simulate
and visualize, in three dimensions, individual cell movements in a
number of multicellular systems.  These include, but are not limited
to cell movement during, aggregation and slug stage of Dictyostelium
discoideum, embryogenesis, limb formation and wound healing.

Here we introduce this model and and show examples of its applications
and compare the results with experimental data. Among the simulations
we show, is how different cell types can sort out based solely on
differences in adhesion. We compare our results to cell sorting
experiments done by Steinberg et.al., using values for adhesion within
the range of the experimental values, and show that the model
reproduces the experiments very well.