Dr Maria Alcolea
Position: Group leader
Personal home page:
https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/People/pi/alcolea
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Dr Maria Alcolea is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.
My recent research focuses on the study of epithelial stem and progenitor cells. Particularly, I am interested on how the normal rules governing epithelial homeostasis are lifted in order to respond to stress conditions such as wounding and cancer mutations. To answer these questions I have turned to the mouse oesophagus, which architectural simplicity renders an ideal epithelial model system for in vivo lineage tracing studies.
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-Alcolea MP, Greulich P, Wabik A, Frede J, Simons BD, Jones PH. Differentiation imbalance in single Oesophageal progenitor cells causes clonal immortalization and field change. Nat Cell Biol. 2014 Jun;16(6):615- 22. -Alcolea MP, Jones PH. Tracking cells in their native habitat: lineage tracing in epithelial neoplasia. Nat Rev Cancer. 2013 Mar;13(3):161-71. Review. -Doupé DP*, Alcolea MP*, Roshan A, Zhang G, Klein AM, Simons BD, Jones PH. (2012) A Single Progenitor Population Switches Behavior to Maintain and Repair Esophageal Epithelium. Science. 2012 Aug 31;337(6098):1091-3.
