Cell patterning.

  • Symposium on Cell Patterning (1974 : London, England)
Date:
1975
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    Chairman’s introduction S. BRENNER MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge I think we may have a rather difficult few days ahead of us: there is a lot to assimilate, much of which may be unfamiliar to people working in special fields. We shall be discussing a variety of different experimental systems and organisms, and there will be a number of different ways, often intricate, of doing experiments. Interspersed between these descriptions will be speculations about the possible mechanisms involved. I should therefore like to ask speakers to make clear, as briefly as possible, exactly what sorts of experiments they have done and can do and to try to keep separate the experimental facts from the interpretations of them. If we can do this, we may be able to establish some communication between those who work with slime moulds and those who work with embryos and developing nerves. In addition may I remind those who work on the nervous system, that not many people are au fait with the behavioural and electrophysiological experiments which you do and you may have to provide us with some background. You will see from the programme that we are not following a Linnaean order; we shall not have an insect day or an avian day, and this means that we may have to discuss the same thing several times. For example, the opening talk by Dr Lawrence on compartment borders in Oncopeltus is linked with Dr Garcia-Bellido’s talk on Drosophila, and thereafter we shall move down the scale to Protozoa. One last point—it would be helpful if speakers were to mention the size of the objects they are working with; just say whether it is micrometres, milli metres or miles.
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