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Organizational principles of nervous system development in C. elegans
How are the many distinct cell types that characterize a mature nervous system genetically specified? For a terminally differentiating neuron this question boils down to a gene regulatory question: how is the expression of the distinct batteries of genes that define the terminal, functional properties of a distinct neuron type induced and maintained? Using genetic loss-of-function approaches in the nematode C.elegans, my laboratory has begun to uncover what appear to be simple, phylogenetically conserved principles underlying the generation of diverse neuronal identities.
Date:
8 April 2026, 11:00
Venue:
Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details:
Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Speaker:
Oliver Hobert (Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University)
Organising department:
Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
Organiser:
Fiona Woods
Organiser contact email address:
fiona.woods@cncb.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Jenkinson Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Fiona Woods
