Venue: FIAS Lecture Hall / online

Our next "CMMS Talks" event with a talk by Prof. Dr. Berta Verd Fernandez will take place on Wednesday, 10 January 2024 at 2 p.m. in the FIAS lecture hall.

Abstract:

Mathematical modelling has long been used to understand embryological phenomena, and perhaps nowhere more successfully than in the study of pattern formation. In this talk I will briefly review some of my favourite models on pattern formation focusing on the insight that they’ve brought about, and paying special attention to the assumptions and abstractions that were made constructing them. One prevailing assumption in our models of pattern formation to date is that the role of cell movements is not generative and can be safely ignored, even though molecular patterns are often established in tissues undergoing morphogenesis where extensive cell rearrangements are taking place. I will argue that in order to understand the formation of molecular patterns and importantly, their evolvability, moving forward we should take the role of cell movements into account explicitly. I will finish outlining a new methodology for reverse-engineering GRNs driving pattern formation in developing tissues with extensive cell movements.

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We will run a Zoom session:

Zoom2 FIAS lädt Sie zu einem geplanten Zoom-Meeting ein. Thema: CMMS Talks WS 23/24

Meeting-ID: 876 8546 2244 Kenncode: 870812