Prof. Jamie Davies: Synthetic Biology Approaches to Turing Patterns

Embryologists have classically approached the ideas in Turing's "The chemical basis of morphogenesis" in two ways: (a) they have modelled embryos in silico to see if Turing patterning could make a particular pattern in principle; and (b) they have sought evidence, from gene expression patterns and knockout phenotypes, for Turing patterning in vivo.
We are taking a third approach, effectively a hybrid of the other two and of synthetic biology: we seek to assemble a synthetic Turing patterning system in cultures of living cells. Here, we will present our design, how it behaves in models, and will describe the state of our construction at the time of the meeting.
Presented by Professor Jamie Davies, Physiology Department, the University of Edinburgh
Recorded on Friday 11 May 2012 at the Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh.
The Turing Research Symposium was organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics in partnership with SICSA and supported by Cambridge University Press.

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