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On the growth and form of the gut
by Prof. L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)
Thursday, January 9, 2014
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(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( A304 )
at Colaba Campus ( A304 )
| Description |
During development, the vertebrate gut starts out as a simple tube that lengthens, coils and gets patterned internally with absorptive villi. I will show how a minimal physical picture based on differential growth systematically breaks various spatial symmetries and allows us to quantify this process, with testable experimental predictions borne out in an organism (the chick) over developmental time, and across species such as birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. The theoretical models that characterize these patterns raise deep mathematical and geometrical questions that I hope to end with. |
