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SUMMARY:Constructing and Using a Locomotor Circuit in Drosophila
DTSTART:20181119T121500
DTSTAMP:20260508T174146Z
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Richard Mann\, Columbia University\, New York City\, NY 
 (USA)\nDISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING\n(sandwiches served
 )\n \nAbstract / Bio (about the speaker):\nRichard Mann is the Higgins Pr
 ofessor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics\, and holds an Interdisci
 plinary Faculty appointment in the Department of Systems Biology. He uses 
 the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system for studying a ran
 ge of problems related to how transcription factors coordinate complex pro
 cesses during animal development. The lab is particularly interested in th
 e Hox family of homeodomain genes\, which code for transcription factors t
 hat specifiy tissue and cellular identities across the animal kingdom. The
  Hox projects address how these transcription factors are able to specific
 ally regulate their target genes during development. Their studies have al
 so focused on motor neuron differentiation in the fly leg\, the developmen
 t of the proximal-distal axis in leg development\, and the regulation of t
 issue growth and organ size. In collaborations with Barry Honig and Harmen
  Bussemaker\, the Mann Lab is also developing novel computational tools to
  discover transcriptional regulatory regions and analyze DNA binding speci
 ficities on a global scale.\n \n 
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