4:00 - 5:00pm
Guest lecturer

From the visual system to the cortex: Stochastic lineages in invertebrates and mammals

Claude Desplan
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
Open to all, subject to availability
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La vidéo sera disponible prochainement.

Abstract

The mammalian cortex develops from stem cells that divide to sequentially produce the six cortical layers, starting with the deepest layers. However, each layer contains numerous neuronal types. Using a simple model (the Drosophila visual system), we will show how desynchronization between the cell divisions of neuronal stem cells and their temporal progression gives rise to stochastic production of a wide variety of neurons, and how this concept can be applied to neurogenesis of the mammalian cortex or retina.