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SUMMARY:What's lumen got to do with it? - Professor Sharon Lubkin
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CONTACT:Natalie Behague
DESCRIPTION:Mechanics and transport in lung morphogenesis\n\nMammalian lun
 g morphology is well optimized for bulk transport of gases\, yet most lung
  morphogenesis occurs prenatally\, when the lung is filled with liquid - a
 nd at birth it is immediately ready to function when filled with gas.\nSha
 ron Lubkin has studied this aspect of lung morphogenesis from several angl
 es using mehanical/transport models tailored to specific questions. Howeve
 r\, the models and results suggest that some of the hypothesized mechanism
 s are not as plausible as they at first seem... So\, what's lumen got to d
 o with it?\n\nSharon Lubkin models mechanical problems in soft tissues. Sh
 e is a Professor in Mathematics at North Carolina State University and is 
 currently visiting Cambridge as the Simons Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Ne
 wton Institute.\n
LOCATION:Queens' College
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