1st of April 2015, Chichley Hall
Elliot Meyerowitz showed how a mechanistic approach using sophisticated genetic manipulation, imaging and analysis in a ping-pong between his group and that of his closely collaborating physicist and modeller (Henrik Jönsson, Cambridge) could lead to the explanation of questions that have vexed botanists for more than a hundred years, e.g. how phyllotaxis arrives at 137.4º, how auxin works, and how mechanics and the cytoskeleton interact in plant development.
More about Elliot Meyerowitz
Cambridge, UK: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/meyerowitz-elliot
CALTECH: http://plantlab.caltech.edu
This talk was part of a workshop on "Cell Mechanobiology" organised by Rene de Borst, which took place April 1st and 2nd 2015, with support by the Royal Society at Chicheley Hall. for the programme details see: http://bio-mat-sketches-mor.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/cell-mechanobiology-workshop-1st-2nd.html