Discovering the cell’s compass

Peter Devreotes is Director of the Department of Cell Biology.  His lab works to understand how cells sense their surroundings and move directionally in processes like  embryogenesis, wound healing, and immune response.  Peter’s lab uses live-cell and single-molecule imaging, genetic analysis in the model organism Dictyostelium, and mathematical modeling to understand mechanisms of directed cell migration.

Learn more about

• the role of chemotaxis in physiology and medicine
• the soil-dwelling amoeba, Dictyostelium