EMBO Member
Maria Dominguez
EMBO 2007
Former EMBO Young Investigator (2001)
Instituto de Neurociencias, Alicante, Spain
Mechanisms of growth control and cancer
Animal size is remarkably robust to perturbations, exemplified by the perfect bilateral symmetry. This resilience underscores the astonishing ability of juvenile organisms to detect and correct even minute variations in size and shape, a crucial defence against injuries and tumours arising from errors, mutations, or environmental factors. Our research studies the genes, circuits, and host responses governing this high-order control of growth.
Keywords
Symmetric growth / developmental stability / relaxin / host-cancer crosstalk / genetic resilience / Drosophila