24 Jan
2013
24 Jan
'13
3:34 p.m.
Dear Barcelona Evo-Devoists,
The following seminar at the CRG may be of interest to you:
ARIEL CHIPMAN
Dept. of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life
Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem IL
"The evolution of insect blastoderm patterning - insights from the milkweed bug
Oncopeltus fasciatus"
Systems Biology Programme Seminar
31/01/2013 at 16:00h, Charles Darwin Room (PRBB, ground floor)
Host: Yogi Jäger (CRG)
Abstract:
The insect body plan is conserved and stereotypical. However, it is becoming increasingly
clear that the embryonic processes leading to this conserved body plan are highly
variable. We have been studying the early embryonic patterning in the milkweed bug
Oncopeltus fasciatus, with the aim of understanding the earliest processes involved in
laying out the insect body plan. We have looked at three separate patterning systems – the
gap gene network, the head patterning network, and the terminal system – and analyzed the
expression and function of key candidate genes, as well as the interactions between them.
Using this data we are starting to assemble a full picture of the early blastoderm
patterning network, with the aim of determining which aspects of this network are
conserved and which are more variable in insect evolution.
Please let me know if you would like to chat with this speaker before or after his
seminar.
Check the updated info of this seminar and all the CRG Scientific Sessions here:
www.crg.eu/scientificsessions.
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Have a good day!
Yogi