The 57th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists

Chairpersons:Tadashi Uemura(Kyoto Univ.), Yukako Hattori(Kyoto Univ.)

Various types of "noise" are ubiquitous throughout the life cycle. They encompass changeable climates and diets, unpredictable infections by pathogens, accidental tissue damage, stochastic somatic mutations, and even fluctuating structures of molecular complexes or single molecules. As a consequence, no individual life history within a species is strictly invariant, as indicated by spatiotemporal variations in embryogenesis, growth, and reproduction. Organisms have evolved buffering mechanisms in the face of such noise, thereby ensuring developmental homeostasis. In this symposium, we will highlight research that explores the roots of this homeostasis. The presenters employ multi-omics approaches in the laboratory and/or in the wild, inter-species comparative analyses, and in vivo imaging.
Co-organized by：Society for Developmental Biology (SDB)