Cell Division Machinery and Disease

Monica Gotta is Ordinary Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Geneva. She has previously worked as a Swiss-National Science Foundation Professor at the ETH Zurich. Her research interests are the (a)symmetric cell divisions of C. elegans embryos and human cells. She has published 43 papers and 1 book chapter. She has also been awarded an EMBO YIP award.Patrick Meraldi is Associate Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Geneva. He has previously worked as a Swiss-National Science Foundation Professor at the ETH Zurich. His research interest is primarily in the field of chromosome segregation in human cells. He has published 49 papers and 2 book chapters. He has also been awarded an EURYI award , an EMBO YIP award and the Walther Flemming Medal.

• 1.Meiotic divisions: no place for gender equality.- 2.Consequences of centrosome dysfunction during brain development.- 3.Dividing with extra centrosomes: a double edged sword for cancer cells.- 4.Kinetochore malfunction in human pathologies.- 5.The elephant in the room: the role of microtubules in cancer.- 6.Clinical development of anti-mitotic drugs in cancer.- 7.Mitotic dysfunction associated with aging hallmarks.- 8.Unbalanced Growth, Senescence and Aging.- 9.The spindle orientation machinery beyond mitosis: when cell specialization demands polarization.