QLS Seminar - TODAY, 16 June at 10h00 "Cell signaling, collective rhythms and patterns in embryonic development" by Luis G. Morelli

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

Dear All,

Today, 16 June at 10:00 CET,  Luis G. Morelli (IBioBA - CONICET / MPSP 
Institute) will give a seminar titled:

*"Cell signaling, collective rhythms and patterns in embryonic development"
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_ *_Abstract:_

Cells generate, process and share information to orchestrate the 
patterning of tissues and organs during embryonic development. An 
interesting example is vertebrate segmentation, where the axis going 
from head to tail is subdivided into regular segments that will later 
form the vertebrae and other tissues. This segmentation is rhythmic, and 
it is thought that a gene regulatory network is responsible for the 
rhythm at the cellular level. At a local level, intercellular signaling 
communicates cells and synchronizes individual oscillators into a 
collective oscillation. This collective oscillation produces gene 
expression waves that traverse the unsegmented tissue and give rise to 
segments. In this talk, I will discuss some findings about how this 
collective rhythm is organized, from an interdisciplinary perspective 
that brings together theory and experiment.


The seminar will take place in the Common Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA 
building (Via Beirut, 2).

You are all most welcome to attend!

Best regards,

Erica

Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-22404623 (NEW PHONE NUMBER)
www.ictp.it/research/qls.aspx
e-mail:qls at ictp.it