Claudia Tanja Mierke has a background in biology and molecular oncology and is head of the biological physics division at the University of Leipzig where she regularly teaches molecular and cell biology, biophysics and soft matter physics to physicists. She is concerned with various research areas developing our understanding of the physical aspects of cancer.

Preface

About the author

Introduction

1 Initiation of a neoplasm or tumor

2 Inflammation and cancer

3 Cellular stiffness and deformability

4 Cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion strength, local cell stiffness and
forces

5 Cell surface tension, the mobility of cell surface receptors and their
location in specific regions

6 Cytoskeletal remodeling dynamics

7 Actin filaments during matrix invasion

8 Intermediate filaments during matrix invasion