Mr William Foster
Position: PhD student
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wpf24@cam.ac.uk
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Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the cells that go on to become sperm or
eggs in the adult organism. During embryonic development, these cells
must migrate from a distant location in the embryo to where they are
eventually needed, in the gonad. In mammals, the biophysical
mechanisms by which this migration occurs are not well understood. The
aim of my research is to characterise these mechanisms, as well as study
how this process can go wrong leading to PGCs that end up in the wrong
place (so-called ectopics). Ectopic PGCs are important since they can go
on to form extragonadal germ cell tumours.
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