Guest Speaker- Dr Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute : ‘Polarity remodelling in asymmetric cell division’
Polarity is a shared feature of most cells. In epithelial tissues, apical-basal polarity often coexists, and sometimes intersects with, planar cell polarity (PCP), which orients cells in the plane of the epithelium. From a limited set of core building blocks (e.g. the Par complexes for apical-basal polarity and the Frizzled/Dishevelled complex for PCP), a vast array of polarized cells, tissues and organs are generated. This suggests the existence of little-studied tissue-specific factors that rewire the core polarity modules to produce the appropriate polarized structure. I will discuss our latest work on Meru, which functions as a polarity remodelling factor in asymmetric cell divisions in Drosophila.
Date:
27 January 2017, 13:00
Venue:
Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details:
DPAG, Large Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building, off South Parks and Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT - 01865 272500
Speaker:
Dr Nic Tapon (The Francis Crick Institute )
Organising department:
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)
Organiser:
Sarah Noujaim (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics)
Organiser contact email address:
deborah.goberdhan@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Deborah Goberdhan (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Part of:
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Sarah Noujaim
