Speakers
Session 5. In vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models to study migration in disease
Chair: Claire M Wells
Danijela Matic Vignjevic was trained as a molecular biologist at University of Belgrade, Serbia and University of Wisconsin-Madison, US. She did her PhD in cell biology, working on the actin cytoskeleton during cell migration at Northwestern University, Chicago, US. She then did a post-doc at Institut Curie, working on mouse models for colon cancer metastasis as a HFSP fellow and later as INSERM researcher. She started her independent team at Institut Curie in 2013 when she got interested in how epithelial cells interact with their microenvironment in homeostasis and cancer invasion. Her research strategy combines molecular and cell biology techniques with live-cell imaging using different model systems such as 2D and 3D in vitro cell cultures; tissue slices cultured ex vivo; and different transgenic mouse models.