时间：2022年5月20日（周五） 上午9:00-10:30

Time: 9:00-10:30 am, Friday, May 20, 2022

线上：ZOOM ID 874 7882 0057

Online: ZOOM ID 874 7882 0057

主持人: 西湖大学工学院 程建军 讲席教授

Host:  Jianjun Cheng, Chair Professor, School of Engineering, Westlake University

主讲嘉宾/Speaker：

Prof. Bo Wang 王浡

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

School of Engineering & Medicine

Stanford University

主讲人简介/Biography:

Bo Wang is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011 working with Steve Granick. He transitioned to biology as a postdoctoral fellow working with Phillip Newmark during 2011-2015. His research group uses single-cell sequencing techniques and quantitative biology approaches to study a diverse group of flatworms, with the goal of understanding collective cell behaviors that control tissue regeneration, adaptation, and evolution.

讲座摘要/Abstract:

How do various cell types coordinate functions so that animals are not just simple sum of their constituent cells? To answer this question, we use functional genomic analysis and computational models to study a variety of animals, in particular flatworms, to understand cell type evolution, regeneration of nervous systems, and genetic circuits that control collective cellular behaviors for emergent organismal functions. In this talk, I will focus on our recent work in which we found that wound signals propagate in the form of a wave with an unexpected speed to coordinate regeneration responses far away from wounds in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. This work suggests that cell types with particular morphological characteristics can serve as superhighways for rapid signal transduction to synchronize cellular behaviors in heterogeneous and complex tissues.

讲座联系人/Contact:

工学院石怀玮

shihuaiwei@westlake.edu.cn