Modelling collective cell migration
Maini PK.
Two examples of recent research in which collective cell movement plays an important role are reviewed. In the first example, the phenomenon of cranial neural crest cell migration, it will be shown how a very simple hybrid agent-based model has been used in an interdisciplinary collaboration to yield novel biological insights. In the second example, the classical model for angiogenesis will be revisited and a new partial differential equation model derived for this phenomenon.