Dr. Tim Walston from Truman’s Biology Department will be presenting “A worm that won’t destroy your PC: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the embryo”<\/p>\n
Abstract: The early embryo of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans provides a great system to understand the forces that act upon cells during development. The cells at the 4-cell stage change their shape during this stage of development. The most notable is the cell called EMS that extends a protrusion underneath the neighboring cell ABa. To understand the forces acting on the cells at this stage, a Glazier-Graner-Hogeweg model of the early embryo was created. In order to apply biological data to the model for initiation and validation, a method for segmentation of microscopic images was also developed. A better understanding of how cells in the embryo change shape are now being explored using this model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Tim Walston from Truman’s Biology Department will be presenting “A worm that won’t destroy your PC: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the embryo” Abstract: The early embryo of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans provides a great system to understand the forces that act upon cells during development. The cells at the 4-cell stage change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n