Cosy Science presents: How cells communicate to build tissues

How do cells communicate with each other to control the size and shape of tissues and animals? How does this work during development of embyros? How does it go wrong in cancer? Work over the last decades has uncovered many of the molecular strategies that cells use to communicate information and build a bewildering variety of different biological forms. Remarkably similar mechanisms govern growth and pattern formation from humans to fruitflies – this is why understanding the pattern of hairs on the abdomen of a fly larva has been able to teach us so much about the breakdown in cell communication that leads to cancer.

This event is sponsored by the Company of Biologists, which provides FREE drinks and nibbles (first come first serve)