Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, November 18, 2024
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Lancefield Professor and Head of the Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Cancer: A Tango of Miscommunication Between Stem Cells and Their Microenviornment
Recommended Readings:
Yuan, Shaopeng, Jorge Almagro, and Elaine Fuchs. “Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel.” Nature Reviews Cancer 24.4 (2024): 274-286.
Fuchs, Elaine, et al. “Understanding the microenvironment and how this controls cell fate.” Developmental Cell 58.24 (2023): 2819-2821.
Wilczyński, Bartosz, et al. “Chemoresistance and the tumor microenvironment: the critical role of cell–cell communication.” Cell Communication and Signaling 22.1 (2024): 486.
Niec, Rachel E., et al. “Lymphatics act as a signaling hub to regulate intestinal stem cell activity.” Cell stem cell 29.7 (2022): 1067-1082.
Lay, Kenneth, et al. “Stem cells repurpose proliferation to contain a breach in their niche barrier.” Elife 7 (2018): e41661.
