Alba Diz-muñoz
Group Leader,Diz-Muñoz group
Cell Biology and Biophysics
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Germany
Biography
Dr.Alba Diz-Muñoz is the Group Leader of Diz-Muñoz group, EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. She has her PhD from MPI-CBG, Germany (Paluch and Heisenberg laboratories) in 2011 and Postdoctoral research between the Fletcher and Weiner laboratories at UC Berkeley and UCSF, Bay Area, USA. Presently she is theGroup leader at EMBL since 2016. She has total 6 no. of publications till now.
Research Interest
Cell Biology and Biophysics
Publications
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Crest J, Diz-Muñoz A, Chen DY, Fletcher DA, Bilder D. (2017) Organ sculpting by patterned extracellular matrix stiffness. Elife 6 doi: 10.7554/eLife.24958 Europe PMC | doi Diz-Muñoz A, Romanczuk P, Yu W, Bergert M, Ivanovitch K, Salbreux G, Heisenberg CP, Paluch EK. (2016) Steering cell migration by alternating blebs and actin-rich protrusions. BMC Biol. 14 doi: 10.1186/s12915-016-0294-x Europe PMC | doi Diz-Muñoz A, Thurley K, Chintamen S, Altschuler SJ, Wu LF, Fletcher DA, Weiner OD. (2016) Membrane Tension Acts Through PLD2 and mTORC2 to Limit Actin Network Assembly During Neutrophil Migration PLoS Biol 14(6):e1002474. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002474 Europe PMC | doi
