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SUMMARY:Upside down and inside out: the biomechanics of cell sheet folding
  - Prof Ray Goldstein (DAMTP Cambridge)
DTSTART:20160217T200000Z
DTEND:20160217T210000Z
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CONTACT:Swaraj Dash
DESCRIPTION:Deformations of cell sheets are ubiquitous in early animal dev
 elopment\, often arising from a complex and poorly understood interplay of
  cell shape changes\, division\, and migration. In this talk I will descri
 be an approach to understanding such problems based on perhaps the simples
 t example of cell sheet folding: the “inversion” process of the algal 
 genus Volvox\, during which spherical embryos literally turn themselves in
 side out through a process hypothesized to arise from cell shape changes a
 lone.  Through a combination of light sheet microscopy and elasticity theo
 ry a quantitative understanding of this process is now emerging. 
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\,  Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Ro
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