Leigh Page Prize Lectures: Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge, “Upside-Down and Inside-Out: Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding”

Folding of cell sheets is a ubiquitous phenomenon in embryonic development, from the formation of the gastric system to the development of the eye, and a common underlying driving force of these morphological transformations is changes in cell shape. This lecture will describe perhaps the simplest example of this process – embryonic inversion in green algae – where a combination of light-sheet microscopy and elasticity theory has led to a quantitative understanding.

Host for 2019 is Steve Lamoreaux
steve.lamoreaux@yale.edu