Shaping an Animal through Spatial Programming

Jakob Hallundbæk Schauser, PhD Student, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

All biological systems involve intricate inter-cell coordination. Most cells use the same array of seemingly simple actions to achieve wildly different and complex results. This coordination needs to robust and precise to make multicellular life feasible.
In this seminar we will be going how global structure arises through purely local interactions, with information encoded in the spatial constraints. Taking our onset in the fruit fly (Drosophila Melanogaster), we explore the biophysical rules needed for blue-printing the architecture of the animal.