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Theory Lunch Francis Corson "How cells agree on making an embryo” (Copy)

How cells agree on making an embryo

Please note that Francis Corson will be presenting virtually via Zoom.

Francis Corson: Laboratory of Physics | Ecole Normale Supérieure, FRANCE

Abstract

Embryos are remarkably adept at developing towards a functional form in spite of perturbations. Take an early avian embryo and cut it in half, and you will get two fully-formed embryos. Drawing from examples like this one, which we have found to involve mechanical feedback, I will discuss some of the ways that cell-cell interactions can support self-organization, and ask whether we should think of the form of an embryo as a consensus among its parts.

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