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News in 2008
uOttawa
announces that Andrew Pelling has been named a Canada Research Chair
in Experimental Cell Mechanics (details
here).
$250,000 awarded to the Pelling Lab by the Canada Foundation for
Innovation for Simultaneous Confocal and Atomic Force Microscopy.
Dark side of
the cell is invited to Microwavefest 2008 (Hong Kong City Hall,
China). Nov 7-16 2008 (2007
website).
Invited talk at the 7th JPK SPM Workshop. Berlin, Oct 8-9
2008 (more).
Invited talk at the Canadian Association of Physicists annual congress.
Quebec City, Jun 8-11 2008 (more).
"Mitosis: Moesin and the Importance
of Being Round" Current Biology Dispatches, Apr 2008 (PDF).
"Moesin Stiffens Up Mitosis" Nature Cell Biology News and Views,
Mar 2008 (PDF).
"FERMing Up the Plasma Membrane" Developmental Cell Previews, Feb
2008 (PDF).
"Do Cells Make Noise?" Popular Science, Jan 2008 (PDF). |
Professor Pelling is generally interested in understanding the dynamic
mechanical properties of cellular systems across nanometer and
micrometer length scales. The mechanical response and transduction
pathways of living cells are explored using genetic manipulation and a
variety of scanning probe and optical techniques. The long term goals of
his research program are to understand the genetic and architectural
control mechanisms of mechanotransduction pathways in health and
disease.
L'intérêt général du Professeur Pelling concerne la compréhension des
propriétés mécaniques dynamiques des systèmes cellulaires à des échelles
nanométriques et micrométriques. La réponse mécanique et les voies de
transduction des cellules vivantes sont étudiées en utilisant la
manipulation génétique ainsi qu'une variété de sondes et techniques
optiques. Les objectifs à long terme de son programme de recherche
visent la compréhension des mécanismes de contrôle génétique et
architectural des voies de transduction dans des cellules normales et
pathologiques.
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