Massimo Vergassola - The Story of the First Two Hours of a Fly’s Life (March 27, 2024)

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a classical model organism of embryonic development. The mechanisms that lead to an adult, fully-developed animal from an unstructured embryo are at the very core of biology, and their investigation keeps unveiling surprises and discoveries.
In this Presidential Lecture, Massimo Vergassola will cover the first two hours (at room temperature) of this fascinating process. He will illustrate the numerous and relevant contributions brought by the overlap between biology and physics, which covers a broad range of phenomena from fluid dynamics to waves to mechanics. More details: www.simonsfoundation.org/even...

[@rememberme5784]

This is fascinating . I am alive at a time where this type of knowledge is available so easily. I am just spellbound at the complexity and beauty of the whole process. Thanks to simons foundation for posting this.

[@Neura1net]

I think few people can apreciate the beauty and complexity of this system. It's astoudning. This is a nice summary of relatively recent research. It would have been interesting to talk more about dorsal-ventral patterning

[@ebog4841]

we need the 8 hour story too pls

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