Committee on Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell …

The Committee on Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology (DRSB) takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the fundamental question of how a single cell, the fertilized egg, ultimately produces a complex fully patterned adult organism, as well as the intimately related question of how adult structures regenerate. Stem cells play critical roles both during embryonic development and in later renewal and repair. More than 35 faculty from both basic science and clinical departments in the Division of Biological Sciences belong to DRSB. Their research uses traditional model species including nematode worms, fruit-flies, Arabidopsis, zebrafish, amphibians, chick and mouse as well as non-traditional model systems such as lampreys and cephalopods. Areas of research focus include stem cell biology, regeneration, developmental genetics, cellular basis of development, developmental neurobiology, and evo-devo.

Student invited seminar speakers for 2013 2014

10/15/13 Jonathan Henry, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign The Eyes Have it: Cornea Stem Cells and Lens Regeneration

11/19/13 Bob Goldstein, University of North, Carolina at Chapel Hill Cellular Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

1/21/14 Adam Martin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Shaping tissues with contractile ratchet

2/18/14 Rebecca Burdine, Princeton University Telling Left from Right - from cilia to organ morphogenesis

3/18/14 Utpal Banjeree, University of California, Los Angeles Title TBA

4/15/14 Jose Luis Gmez-Skarmeta, Centro Andaluz de Biologa del Desarrollo Deep conserved 3D architecture of developmental tool

5/20/14 Jin Jiang, University of Texas, Southwestern Hippo signaling in organ size control and regeneration

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