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”
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
As usual, my vado videos:
Mike German
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Karen Guillemin
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Charles Murry
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Randall Moon, HHMI Investigator
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David Bilder
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Mu-ming Poo
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part II
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the audio quality was not good. But really admire you to record the whole thing, hehe:p
good job!
how is the cGMP/cAMP being manipulated in vivo in Poo’s talk? genetic or pharmacological? ip injection for mom and look at the pups?
I want to minimize the processing work I need to do – no adjustment.
He used beads coated with drugs.
[...] was fortunately to hear Mu-ming’s talk about the “Development of Neuronal Polarity” last summer. Now, the paper has been published in [...]