Stochasticity in Cell and Developmental Processes
Date: 17th – 20th October 2010
Location: Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire, UK
Organisers: James Briscoe
The process of transcription is, from the biochemical point of view, very dependent on the concentration and molecular interactions of transcription factors and components of the basal transcriptional machinery. Recent studies in unicellular organisms have shown that, as a consequence, there is a significant stochastic element to gene expression. This can give rise to non-genetic heterogeneity in a population of cells. In some cases stochasticity is exploited for function while in other cases its influence has to be minimized. There are hints that these observations also hold for metazoans and that stochasticity in gene expression is intrinsic to developmental systems where they might be used as an element of pattern formation.
This Workshop aimed to bring together groups studying stochasticity and gene regulation in yeast and bacteria with people interested in similar questions in metazoan development.
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Published Information from the Workshop
- Meeting report written by Andrew Oates and published in Development
- Making life out of noise: “Stochasticity in cell and developmental processes”. Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK, 17-20 October, 2010. Posted by Fer Casares on The Node on October 28th, 2010
Organisers & Speakers
James Briscoe NIMR, London, UK
Alfonso Martinez Arias Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK
Buzz Baum University College London, UK
Attila Becskei University of Zurich, Switzerland
Joshua Brickman University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Fernando Casares CABD, Seville, Spain
Jonathan Chubb University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Joaquin de Navascues University of Cambridge, UK
Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo Technical University of Catalonia, Terrassa, Spain
Suzanne Gaudet Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Ray Goldstein University of Cambridge, UK
Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan University of Geneva, Switzerland
Jeremy Gunawardena Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Takashi Hiiragi Max Planck Institute, Munster, Germany
Dagmar Iber ETH, Basel, Switzerland
Thomas Lecuit IBDM, Marseille, France
Sally Lowell MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh, UK
François Nédélec EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Andy Oates Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
Timm Schroeder Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
Ben Simons University of Cambridge, UK
Jim Smith NIMR, London, UK
Shahragim Tajbakhsh Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Chris Thompson University of Manchester, UK
Alexander van Oudenaarden Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Michael White University of Liverpool, UK
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Stochasticity in Cell and Developmental Processes
17th – 20th October 2010
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire, UK
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