Wednesday, June 15, 2011
An important mechanism of blood vessel growth is self-organisation: blood vessel cells coordinate their movements by deforming a surrounding protein network, the extracellular matrix, and by depositing signalling molecules there. Roeland Merks of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica is going to develop new simulation techniques that help understand this interaction between cells and the extracellular matrix better. The research will be carried out in cooperation with the VU medical centre and the Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology.
see the simulation's video