Analysis of regulatory mechanisms for receptor tyrosine kinases-initiated signaling networks assembly

Communication between cells that make up our body is essential. It is required to ensure that our body functions accurately during our lifetime. Failure for cells to send, to receive or to correctly understand signals may lead to problems such as cancer. The cellular actors responsible for such signals are called proteins. Most, if not all proteins do not act individually but rather function as groups, called networks. Our main goal is to decipher how normal cells establish a specific response to given extracellular cues, and to further define how this is deregulated in diseases such as cancer. To achieve this, our work seeks to determine how signaling networks are assembled and disassembled.

Faculty Supervisor:

Nicolas Bisson

Student:

Partner:

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Biotechnology; Life Sciences (not health)

University:

Université Laval

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