Name: Generation of Morphogen Gradients: The Case for Diffusion
Start: 2021-11-11T16:00:00.000+05:30
End: 2021-11-11T17:00:00.000+05:30

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Overview

SDBS Seminar Series - Seminar (Virtual)
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Event Details

Date & Time

11 Nov 2021, 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

Venue

Zoom

Audience

Public,Healthcare Professionals

Language

English

Cost

Free

Speaker Profile

Jean-Paul Vincent obtained his first degree in applied physics from the University of Louvain (Belgium) before doing a PhD in Biophysics at U.C. Berkeley (with George Oster and John Gerhart). He was then a post-doc at UCSF with Pat O’Farrell. JP started his own research group in 1993 at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and then moved to the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill in 1997. He is currently a senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Venue

Zoom Meeting ID: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/my/sdbsseminar
Meeting ID: 929 765 4321
Passcode: 147087

Abstract

Cells within developing tissues rely on morphogens to assess positional information. Passive diffusion is the most parsimonious transport model for long-range morphogen gradient formation. However, it is not clear how diffusion could account for the spread of lipidated morphogens, planar transport of soluble morphogens, or scaling and robustness. I will show that, these shortcomings can be overcome if one considers the effect of receptors on morphogen gradient.

Current Session

11 Nov 2021

Seminars Generation of Morphogen Gradients: The Case for Diffusion

Free 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm