Studies of morphogens: keep calm and carry on
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Stathopoulos, Angelike
- Iber, Dagmar
Abstract
Morphogens are signaling factors that direct cell fate and tissue development at a distance from their source, and various modes of transport and interpretation have been suggested for morphogens. The recent EMBO Workshop on 'Morphogen gradients', which took place in Oxford, UK in June 2013, centered on the formation and interpretation of such morphogen gradients during development. This meeting allowed an exchange of views in light of recent results. Here, we provide a brief overview of the talks, organized in relation to several major themes of discussion at the meeting: (1) morphogen gradient formation; (2) morphogen gradient interpretation; (3) signaling networks and feedback in morphogenesis; (4) emergence of patterns; (5) scaling of patterns; (6) the control of growth; and (7) new techniques in the field.
Additional Information
© 2013 Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. We thank the organizers and speakers for contributing to this Meeting Review, and apologize that the need for brevity did not always allow us to capture the full scope of all their interesting studies. The authors' research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, and by SNF Sinergia and SNF SystemsX RTD. The authors declare no competing financial interests.Attached Files
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- PMC3787753
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- 42245
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20131105-094604018
- NIH
- SNF Sinergia
- SNF SystemsX RTD
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2013-11-06Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-10Created from EPrint's last_modified field