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“Patterning in Nature”
Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
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Description
Schedule
Speakers' Biographies
Scientific Summaries
Experience the proceedings on-line: streaming video of the symposium is now available.
Welcome
Video (3 minutes)
“The Largest Structures in the Universe and Their Origin”
Video (46 minutes)
“Patterning the Vertebrate Body: Between Constraints and Flexibility”
Video (42 minutes)
“Coordinated Patterning of Three Elements of the Cerebellum by the Engrailed Homeobox Genes”
Video (40 minutes)
“Control of Dendrite Morphogenesis During Development of the Nervous System”
Video (45 minutes)
“Patterning and Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Gut”
Video (41 minutes)
“Pattern and Control in Biology”
Video (44 minutes)
“Art of Mineralized Tissues: Are There Any Skeletal Patterns That Nature Did Not Create?”
Video (53 minutes)
Closing remarks
Video (8 minutes)
Patterns are an essential feature of the natural world, from the microscopic aspects of chemical structures to the macroscopic array of objects in the sky. “Patterning In Nature,” a daylong symposium, will bring together life scientists, materials scientists, mathematicians, and astronomers and will address aspects of natural patterns and how they are generated and analyzed in diverse scientific disciplines.
This event is free and open to the public.
| 9 a.m. |
Welcome Rosalind A. Segal, Senior Advisor to the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; Member of the Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
| 9:15 a.m. |
“The Largest Structures in the Universe and Their Origin” Volker Springel, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (Germany) |
| 10 a.m. |
“Patterning the Vertebrate Body: Between Constraints and Flexibility” Denis Duboule, Chairman of the Department of Zoology and Animal Biology, University of Geneva; Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:15 a.m. |
“Coordinated Patterning of Three Elements of the Cerebellum by the Engrailed Homeobox Genes” Alexandra L. Joyner, Courtney Steel Chair in Pediatric Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University |
| 12 p.m. |
“Control of Dendrite Morphogenesis During Development of the Nervous System” Yuh-Nung Jan, Jack D. and DeLoris Lange Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of California at San Francisco; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| 12:45 p.m. |
Break and poster session |
| 2 p.m. |
“Patterning and Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Gut” Clifford Tabin, George Jacob and Jacqueline Hazel Leder Professor of Genetics and Head of the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School |
| 2:45 p.m. |
“Pattern and Control in Biology” Arthur D. Lander, Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology and of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Irvine; Director, Center for Complex Biological Systems |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Break |
| 4 p.m. |
“Art of Mineralized Tissues: Are There Any Skeletal Patterns That Nature Did Not Create?” Joanna Aizenberg, Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Radcliffe, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
| 4:45 p.m. |
Closing remarks Dimitar D. Sasselov, Senior Advisor to the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Astronomy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Director, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative |
See the "Patterning in Nature" speakers' biographies page.
See the "Patterning in Nature" scientific summaries page.
