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UCSF Developmental Biology Symposium on the Mission Bay

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18th Annual UCSF Developmental Biology Symposium
6/5/2009 (Friday)

9:30 – 10:30
Mike German
University of California, San Francisco
“Islet Development and Diabetes”

10:30 – 11:30
Karen Guillemin
University of Oregon
“Keeping the peace: regulation of inflammatory responses to the microbiota in the zebrafish intestine”

11:30 – 12:30
Charles Murry
University of Washington
“Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Cardiovascular Differentiation and Repair”

2:00 – 3:00
Randall Moon, HHMI Investigator
University of Washington
“Wnt Signaling: From Diseases to Therapies”

3:00 – 4:00
David Bilder
University of California, Berkeley
“Epithelial growth control and morphogenesis”

4:00 – 5:00
Mu-ming Poo
University of California, Berkeley
“Development of neuronal polarity”

The flyer

In Mu-ming’s talk, I realize that my favorite theory “global inhibition, local excitation” was pioneered by Alan M. Turning’s study on pattern formation. His original theory is “Local autocatalytic activation and long-range inhibition” (“The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London B 237 (1952): 37-72. Rpt. in The Collected Works of A. M. Turing: Morphogenesis. Ed. P. T. Saunders. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1992.).

Turing1952.pdf