Fabio Piano, an associate professor at New York University’s Center for Genomics & Systems Biology and NYU’s Department of Biology, will deliver a lecture on cutting-edge approaches in genomics research, “From Imaging to Networks in Early Embryogenesis,” on Thurs., Dec. 13, 6:30 p.m. at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East. The lecture is part of the NYU Science and Medicine Seminar Series.
Fabio Piano, an associate professor at New York University’s Center for Genomics & Systems Biology and NYU’s Department of Biology, will deliver a lecture on cutting-edge approaches in genomics research, “From Imaging to Networks in Early Embryogenesis,” on Thurs., Dec. 13, 6:30 p.m. at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East. The lecture is part of the NYU Science and Medicine Seminar Series.
The event is open to NYU students. NYU student ID required for entry. For more information, call 212.998.3801.
A fundamental question in biology is to understand the mechanisms underlying embryogenesis—the fascinating and complex process by which the embryo is formed and develops. Piano, part of a consortium of scientists who will seek to understand every part of the genome needed for organisms to develop, studies genome of the worm C. elegans, the first animal species whose genome was completely sequenced and a model organism to study how embryos develop.
To build a molecular view at a genomic scale, his research team has been focusing on the earliest steps of embryogenesis. Combining image analysis with other functional genomics approaches, it has built a first-draft map of the molecular networks underlying early embryogenesis in C. elegans. It is now probing the global and local properties of this molecular system, identifying new mechanisms that coordinate fundamental processes in cell biology, and how they might evolve to generate the diversity seen in nature. The results can give us insights into how developmental systems can naturally evolve or break and cause disease.