Consortium Updates
Welcome to the Cell Migration Consortium's updates page, where we highlight major additions of data and information, and outline some of the publications appearing as a result of the Consortium's activities.
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August 2003
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Production of Knockout Mice
The Consortium is working with a number of outside investigators to develop mice for migration research. The process, time lines and terms for making a knockout mouse with the Cell Migration Consortium Transgenic & Knockout Mouse Initiative, as well as contact details are outlined on this Initiative's Activities page.
July 2003
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Virtual Cell Short Course
The 4th annual Virtual Cell Short Course, sponsored by the National Resource for Cell Analysis and Modeling (NRCAM) at the University of Connecticut Health Center, was held on June 9-11, 2003. This is run annually and is an intense hands-on course designed to enable cell biologists and biophysicists to develop a Virtual Cell model of their experimental system. As a NIH/NCRR Biomedical Technology Resource, NRCAM is charged with supporting NIH-funded research through collaborative projects. http://www.nrcam.uchc.edu/
June 2003
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A new European Migration Consortium
A new Consortium, targeting Cell Migration in Chronic inflammation, MAIN (http://www.main-noe.org), has been funded by the European Union's "Network of Excellence". This newly funded consortium is comprised of ~15 Research Institutes (48 research groups) to focus on achieving “a thorough understanding of directed inflammatory cell migration towards and across injured tissues”. The program will complement and synergize with the CMC. It will address chronic inflammation from a number of different angles, developing tools, research resources and potential targets for drug development.
April 2003
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Signaling and Adhesion take Center Stage in the April Issue of Nature Cell Biology
This special issue in Nature Cell Biology brings together an exciting collection of commissioned pieces in the field of signaling and adhesion and is part of a new "Focus on Signaling and Adhesion" (http://www.nature.com/ncb/index.html), which will reside at this home page and be updated monthly.
February 2003
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Applications of Biosensors
A recent STKE article outlines the various applications of fluorescent proteins for monitoring signaling processes in living cells.
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Cell Migration Research is on the Move
New focus artilce in Science Magazine describes recent research and interest in Cell migration.
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Chicurel M. Cell biology. Cell migration research is on the move. Science 2002 Jan 25;295(5555):606-9. PubMed