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understanding cerebellar pattern formation

Understanding Cerebellar Pattern Formation

I am Kathy Millan. I'm an Assistant professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Human Genetics and also in the Department of Neurology. And I work on brain development, and specifically I work on Cere Butler development, the cerebellum, the part of the brain back here at the back of the skull.And it's most famous for its role in motor development, but it turns out it's involved in a lot of things. And it's a really interesting part of the brain Pattern Formation is the development of pattern in a biological system. And it's one of these words that developmental biologists use kind of in a squishy way to mean almost anything.And it's not really clear what it means. I think every developmental biologist would give you a different version of what it means to me. What it means is how does the brain, or in particular the cerebellum, know from top and bottom, how do, how does you define left and right?How do you decide which part of the structure is going to be, which part? And once you've made those critical, fundamental early embryonic decisions, how do you bring all of the cellular structure together to form the exquisitely patterned part of the brain that we call the

Understanding Cerebellar Pattern Formation

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