Joint Meeting of JSCB 77th and JSDB 58th

Chairpersons:Erina Kuranaga(Kyoto Univ.), Hiroyuki Takeda(Kyoto Sangyo Univ.)

This symposium examines morphogenesis as a dynamic process shaped by interactions between cells, tissues, and environmental factors. The talks collectively explore how coordinated behaviors across molecular to tissue scales generate organized form-through inter-tissue communication, metabolic regulation, non-canonical polarity signaling, epithelial-ECM interactions, and stem cell plasticity in early land plants. Rather than emphasizing a single system or mechanism, the session highlights diverse solutions to shared developmental challenges. From the dynamic remodeling of the basement membrane in animal skin to the regulation of stem cell fate during 2D-to-3D growth transitions in moss, the speakers illuminate how morphogenesis arises through context-dependent strategies. The symposium underscores the value of comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives in uncovering general principles such as robustness, flexibility, and coordination, and in understanding morphogenesis as an emergent property of living systems.