Postdoctoral Association Christmas Lecture 2014 Event

Time:: 15:30 - 16:30
Date:: 15 December 2014
Venue:: Lecture Theatre 2, South Academic Block, SGH

For more information regarding this event, please email resmed@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

The Annual Faculty of Medicine Postdoctoral Association Christmas Lecture 2014 will be on Monday 15 December, followed by mince pies and mulled wine.

Guest Speaker – Professor Lewis Wolpert, University College London:

Patterning the embryo - limb development

“Our limbs grow independently for more than ten years, yet our limbs are reliably of similar length. I am considering how this can occur.”

Speaker information

Professor Lewis Wolpert,University College London,Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology. He originally took a degree in civil engineering and carried out research in soil mechanics, and then changed to cell biology at King's College. He has worked on the mechanics of cytokinesis, morphogenesis of the sea urchin embryo, regeneration in hydra, left right asymmetry, and has focussed on pattern formation in limb development. He has also been involved in interacting with the public in relation to science.