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Delphine Delacour.
Monday 09 March 2026, 14:30-15:30
Morphogenesis Seminar Series
This is a weekly online seminars on the topic of Morphogenesis. Talks are on Mondays at 2:30pm and are given by both international and local speakers.
Speakers represent the diverse topics that make up morphogenesis, including biomechanics, cell and tissue level interactions, theoretical analyses and modelling, and different systems such as animals, plants, and single cell approaches.
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Scaling life: How Single Cells Orchestrate Tissue-Level Coordination
⚠️ TUESDAY online seminar (details will be sent via email to subscription list)
For both titles please look in the abstract session below.
⚠️ Please sign in at the Gurdon reception upon entry and the seminar will take place in the tea room.
Temporal patterning during development and tumorigenesis
⚠️ This seminar will be host at PDN and we will be streaming it on zoom as well, for details please check our email or website.
*CANCELLED*: Cortical microtubules shape cell walls to support a wide range of functions
⚠️ Sorry due to some unforeseen circumstances, this talk is cancelled and will be reschedulled in next term hopefully.
Connecting spaces and scales in embryos
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Cued or cueless? Mechanisms that shape mesoderm and enable cell ingression
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Opening doors and boosting energy: cellular programs that enable macrophage tissue infiltration.
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Are plant cells balloons? A biomechanical perspective on plant cell growth.
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
You shall not pass! How ectoderm patterning modulates lateral mesendoderm migration in the early zebrafish gastrula.
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
STOMATA DIVISION ORIENTATION: INTERPLAY BETWEEN GEOMETRY, GROWTH, AND MECHANICAL STRESS
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Modelling active morphogenesis of patterned epithelia
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Connecting spaces and scales in embryos
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Life and death of cells a mystery solved through biomechanics
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Mechanics and patterning combine to orient cell divisions in a planar polarised epithelium
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
On the specification of leaf dorsiventrality
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Building and Breaking the Neural Tube
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Cephalo-pelvic integration in hybrid mouse models and implications for human obstructed labour
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Junctional Remodelling in Vascular Morphogenesis
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Title to be confirmed
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
How tissues orchestrate growth and morphogenesis – lessons from the vertebrate retina
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
4D reconstruction of developmental trajectories
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Exploring variation in neural crest development among East African cichlid fishes
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
CANCELLED!!!!!! Cell invasion: a casualty of dysregulated cell extrusion
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Organoids – how can they shed light on immune-mediated development and disease?
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Differentiation of the extra-embryonic endoderm is required for development of the pluripotent epiblast
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Drivers of cnidarian morphogenesis
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Multicellular coordination in context
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Cell-type-specific behaviour underlies cellular growth variability in plants
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same time
⚠️ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82089026611?pwd=L2FyclJFL2lYR0J3SFBDbHQyUFp6UT09
Getting into shape: new insights into morphological patterning from the Drosophila wing
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The fossil origins of eukaryotic morphogenesis: exploring the beginnings of complex multicellularity in the Holozoa
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Mechanisms generating robustness in plant organ size and shape
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Understanding the role of the extracellular matrix: from elasticity to viscoelasticity
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Adhesion-regulated junction slippage controls cell intercalation dynamics in an Apposed-Cortex Adhesion Model
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Breaking the barrier: CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids model pathogen and drug entry to the brain
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Emergence of a left-right symmetric body plan during embryonic development
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CADHERIN mediated AMIS localisation - Using mouse embryonic stem cells 3D culture as a model
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Characterization of a Mechanical Hotspot for Cell Plate Guidance Near an Adjacent Three-Way Junction
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Developmental Control of Avian Skin Patterning
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POSTPONED*Drivers of Morphological complexity: a Cnidarian Perspective
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Symplasmic auxin movement and the evolution of plant architecture
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To stay or leave? Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and progenitor’s segregation within the bird embryonic tail
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Jamie: "A biomechanical switch regulates the transition towards homeostasis in oesophageal epithelium" Ben: "Integrating pattern formation and cell movements in our understanding of morphogenesis"
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Matteusz: "Insights into the mechanism and evolution of glial ensheathment" Renske: "Evolution of selfish multicellularity: changes in gene regulation at the origin of multicellularity"
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Morphogenesis and cell ordering in bacterial biofilms
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Cell shape determination: Mechanical competition vs. endogenous genetic programme
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Building organs – emergence of form and fate through local force imbalance
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/99568066060?pwd=VjFEYVlwM2ZZY0Z6VHByY1NvRE0yZz09
"Investigating the role of Syndecan, a conserved heparan sulphate proteoglycan, in the maintenance and proliferation of progenitor cells in the adult Drosophila midgut"
⚠️ recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8
"Single-cell morphometrics reveals ancestral principles of notochord development"
⚠️ recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8
Stretching out the embryo - Anterior expansion and posterior addition to the notochord mechanically coordinate embryo axis elongation
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/94691632022?pwd=a1lrNi82ekE2OHFZYjNLekR3WTU5Zz09
Regulation of Phyllotaxis by Auxin Transport Proteins
⚠️ recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_hOcdkup8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSKckxt930
Morphogenesis of the mouse and human embryo beyond implantation
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/95435060718?pwd=QzIyS0FTcXF3LzlkT2RiVjdmZDhYUT09
Size sensing in biological systems- new insights from planarians
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/98275702948?pwd=ODl2MDhjb0t5ckV5bnpOdURnazRxdz09
Wisdom of the crowd – Mechanisms that coordinate individual cell movements for epithelial migration
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/99970909084?pwd=U0k1RUxOWnhmUlQ4cTZOL3RJNFZSQT09
Stochastic gene expression drives mesophyll protoplast regeneration
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/94519300866?pwd=clh6eU83aHg5Z1QrMEpTUW14WlpLdz09
‘Fine-tuning cell mechanics at the onset of collective cell motion’
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/97700351610?pwd=MlRTeE5BYzZyU0Z1Wm5UdGFwMWx5dz09
The evolution of cell division: from archaea to eukaryotes
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/95511029379?pwd=aXE2M29BWC9tS2lLK2I5blhaSEJFdz09
Against the grain; Modeling seed growth control as an mechano-sensitive incoherent feedforward loop.
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/9605624368?pwd=VVM3d203RGRQdkNjbXFhRTYvRWJidz09
Two signals converge on a nerve cell’s path: The interplay between chemical and mechanical signals in the developing brain
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/92408292136?pwd=WkFSM3k0MDFoT0VacHFQb0o1TG5Edz09
The importance of being edgy: directional growth control in Arabidopsis lateral roots
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/97556405670?pwd=ZU13RzBIY1NZQVVteVZaSWE2OVdnQT09
Generating order out of (pseudo)chaos during vertebrate retinal lamination
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/95883597197?pwd=NHJSZVJWQ2R6clV1Qlp1WXoyWUFqZz09
From cell dynamics to robust tissue folding
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/97571586365?pwd=Tlg2TnRWWnh6andadWdIbzJsRmdHdz09
Cell shape, cell division and the development of early embyos
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/95172051126?pwd=YllZNXlTcTJJdDAwUkRRd0ZQbkFmQT09
First a war then a dance: How sensory organs take shape
⚠️ https://zoom.us/j/94781964934?pwd=eDQvMUZjV0tTY3hYZ1drYlJmczlNQT09
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