Developing the Flatworm Macrostomum Lignanon as a Model Organism for Research on Stem Cells, Regeneration and Ageing
VENUE CHANGE: THIS LECTURE WILL NOW BE TAKING PLACE AT NEW RADCLIFFE HOUSE, WALTON STREET, SEMINAR ROOM 2 Tea and coffee & nibbles will be served after the seminar, please join us for the networking afterwards
Macrostomum lignano is a free-living flatworm with high regeneration capacity. Due to its small size, short generation time, amenability to genetic manipulation and easy maintenance in laboratory conditions, M. lignano is a potent invertebrate experimental model for stem cell research. For the last several years my laboratory has been developing molecular biology resources and tools for this model organism. M. lignano genome and transcriptome assembly and annotation will be presented, discovery of stem cell markers and development of methods for transgenesis described, and gene expression changes during ageing and regeneration in M. lignano discussed.
Date: 26 February 2018, 13:00
Venue: Seminar Room 2
Speaker: Professor Eugene Berezikov (European Institute for the Biology of Ageing)
Organisers: Dr Roberto Salguero-Gomez (University of Oxford), Professor Aziz Aboobaker (Dept Zoology, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: administrator.pa@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Aziz Aboobaker (Dept Zoology, University of Oxford)
Part of: the zoology lectures 2017/18
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Kirsty Jackson