Christina Towers is assistant professor in the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory. She is a cancer cell biologist using a combination of DNA-editing techniques, light-based genetic manipulation (optogenetics), three-dimensional miniature organs (“organoids”), and detailed imaging to uncover how cancer cells recycle both their own nutrients and the power-generating structures called mitochondria in order to survive. Her goal is to understand the fundamental cancer cell biology that drives cancer cell survival to develop targeted cancer therapies that block cancer cell recycling pathways and kill the cancer cells.
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