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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Theory of Condensed Matter > Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding
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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Gareth Conduit. Deformations of cell sheets are ubiquitous in early animal development, often arising from a complex and poorly understood interplay of cell shape changes, division, and migration. In this talk I will describe an approach to understanding such problems based on perhaps the simplest example of cell sheet folding: the “inversion” process of the algal genus Volvox, during which spherical embryos literally turn themselves inside out through a process hypothesized to arise from cell shape changes alone. Through a combination of light sheet microscopy and elasticity theory a quantitative understanding of this process is now emerging. This talk is part of the Theory of Condensed Matter series. This talk is included in these lists:
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