Speakers
Session 4. Cell adhesion and migration in inflammatory and infectious disease: mechanisms and therapies
Anne Blangy received her PhD in biology from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1992. She then moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to join the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) as a post-doctoral fellow, working on the molecular mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly in the laboratory of Erich Nigg. Back in France as a CNRS researcher, she joined the Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center (CRBM). She has been studying for over 25 years the regulation of cytoskeleton dynamics, in particular in the context of osteoclasts, the bone resorbing cells whose excessive activity is at the origin of osteoporosis. Her team studies the mechanisms of regulation of actin and tubulin cytoskeleton dynamics in osteoclasts, in order to understand the mechanisms that control their bone resorption activity. Hervwork combines proteomic and transcriptomic analyses, super-resolution and live-cell microscopy, and mouse models of bone pathology.