Neuroscience Seminar Series

We are delighted to announce our next Neuroscience Seminar Series talk. Presentations by experts in their field will take place both here at MPINB and via Zoom.

"Nervous system patterning and evolution in nematodes"

Oliver Hobert - Columbia University

Abstract

I will first describe organizational principles of cell type specification and diversification in the nervous system of C. elegans. These principles involve coregulation of terminal identity features of individual neuron classes by combinations of homeodomain transcription factors and suggest substrates for evolutionary changes in neuronal cell type specification. To discover and mechanistically probe such substrates of evolutionary change, we have begun to delineate nervous system structure and development in distantly related nematode species.

Selected publications

Taylor, Seth R., et al. "Molecular topography of an entire nervous system." Cell 184.16 (2021): 4329-4347.
Sun, H. and Hobert, O., 2021. Temporal transitions in the post-mitotic nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature, 600(7887), pp.93-99.
Yemini, Eviatar, et al. "NeuroPAL: a multicolor atlas for whole-brain neuronal identification in C. elegans." Cell 184.1 (2021): 272-288.

In-Person

MPINB Lecture Hall, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee 2, 53175 Bonn

Zoom

https://mpinb-mpg-de.zoom.us/j/63767300567
Meeting-ID: 637 6730 0567

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