The path to function by integrating relevant technologies

Speaker: Jared Burks, PhD, Professor and Co-Director of the Flow Cytometry and Cell Imaging Core Facility, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

The fundamentals of image analysis can be viewed similarly to what our world looks like and where we live, investigating cell dynamics, movement and communications. Burks describes the use of feedback loops from several different technologies to understand the underlying biology of cells and tissues and determine tissue composition, construction and function. He shares an ovarian cancer study, where the applications of four different technologies were integrated to provide the most comprehensive look into precise characteristics of the disease and avoid biases linked to the high level of heterogeneity in the ovarian tumor microenvironment.