Developing Quantitative Biophysical Understanding of Proliferation and Migration of Electrical Stimulated Neural Crest Cells   

Project Description:

Cell proliferation and cell migration are two cellular functions that play a crucial role in the growth, development and regeneration of an organism. Although experiments have shown that both these cellular functions are affected by external stimuli, such as electric fields, the mechanism underlying electric field dependent modulation of cellular behavior is unknown. In this project we will develop physics-based computational model to study the behavior of migration and proliferation of electrically stimulated cranial neural crest cells. The model developed in this project will be parallelly extended to an open-source python-based computing platform. This project is in joint cooperation with an external experimental partner and will also involve image and data analysis of experimental images of neural crest cells. 

Interested student should be curious to learn about a new area of science. Basic exposure to Matlab-based scientific computing and mathematical reasoning is preferred for one position and basic exposure to Python-based scientific computing is preferred for the other position. 

Accepting 2 Students