Prof. Boris Shraiman speaks at the Imperial Physics of Life seminar series:
www.imperial.ac.uk/physics-of-life/physics-of-life-seminar-series/
Physics of Morphogenesis
Morphogenesis is a developmental process through which plants and animals acquire their shape and form. Although Biology has identified many of the key genes and cellular mechanisms of morphogenesis, the question of how Living Matter encodes the geometry of the shapes that it generates remains an open problem. This talk will focus on the interplay of physical forces and genetically encoded regulation that underly morphogenic processes. Specifically, the talk will describe how mechanical self-organization on cellular scale acts...