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SUMMARY:[TMS] Upside down and inside out: the biomechanics of cell sheet f
 olding - Prof. Raymond Goldstein (DAMTP)
DTSTART:20160201T203000Z
DTEND:20160201T213000Z
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CONTACT:Jason Kwong
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 genu
 s Volvox\, during which spherical embryos literally turn themselves inside
  out through a process hypothesized to arise from cell shape changes alone
 . Through a combination of light sheet microscopy and elasticity theory a 
 quantitative understanding of this process is now emerging.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre\, Trinity College
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