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Asexuality, migration and genetic networks in regenerating flatworms
Aziz Aboobaker has been at Oxford Zoology (now Biology) for 10 years having first started his own group in Nottingham . He started his own group with some plates of nematodes , some vials of flies, a dish of tardigrades, two jars of flour beetles and a tupperware box of freshwater planarians. After a few months only the planarians were still alive. Through the hard work of very talented colleagues the lab had used molecular, developmental and genomic approaches to study how regeneration works in planarians, and is also trying to understand how they avoid ageing. I will try to present some work looking at how the obligate asexual planarians might persist in the face of evolutionary arguments that they shouldn’t, some work we are continuing on the control of stem cell migration and recent work on trying to understand the GRNs in active in adult pluripotent stem cells.
Date:
12 May 2023, 14:00
Venue:
Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre
Speaker:
Prof Aziz Aboobaker (Dept of Biology, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Organiser:
Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Organiser contact email address:
melissa.wright@path.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Prof Shona Murphy (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Melissa Wright
