My research program will initially take advantage of data amassed over the last 10 years but not yet analyzed, these include time-lapse movies and confocal images of epithelial development. Student researchers and I will quantify and analyze cell parameters using public domain software. Hypotheses generated are then tested, as I and my former students have done in the past, using multiple genetic techniques including artificial selection and the UAS-GAL4 system. Thus, students are introduced to the scientific process conceptually while learning how to integrate different methodologies to answer questions.
Brief description of research projects
Cancer cell dynamics
Circulatory Tumor Clusters (CTC)
