Open Questions in Developmental Biology Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Perspectives

Part I: The developing organism as a complex system Chapter 1 In the tinkerer’s workshop – Structures, functions and the decomposition of development Gerhard Schlosser Chapter 2 Biophysical Intelligence Between Genotype and Phenotype: the agential material of life from evo-devo to regenerative medicine Michael Levin Part II: Computational approaches to development Chapter 3 New approaches to an old problem: the enigma of cells making decisions Igor Adameyko Chapter 4 The nodes and edges of developmental gene regulation Jake Cornwall-Scoones and James Briscoe Part III: The cell as the unit of development Chapter 5 Nothing in EvoDevo makes sense except in the light of cell biology Günter P. Wagner Information Classification: General Chapter 6 Developmental Biology at the Crossroads: Classical Puzzles and Future Directions Roberto Mayor Part IV: Shedding new light on old problems Chapter 7 Playing the game of regeneration Elly M. Tanaka Chapter 8 Reassessing Chordate Evolution: Did Tunicates Originate from a Vertebrate Ancestor? Michael Levine and Nicholas Treen

Biography

Igor Adameyko is a Professor and a Department Chair at Center for Brain Research of Medical University of Vienna and a group leader at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Prof. Adameyko is known for the discovery of multipotency of nerve-associated Schwann cell precursors, a population of neural crest derived cells with exceptional plasticity and distribution in the body. His studies introduced a radically new concept for developmental biology in that defined precursor pools existing in a highly specialized niche use nerves as conduits to migrate and differentiate through temporally and spatially delineated nerve-Schwann cell communication.

Gerhard Schlosser is Lecturer Above The Bar in the Department of Zoology at the National University of Ireland in Galway. He has received two PhD's - the first in Philosophy from the Albert-Ludwig's-Universität Freiberg and the second in Biology from the university of Bremen. After two postdocs - one at University of Bremen and another at the University of California in San Diego - he joined the faculty at the National University of Ireland. He's the author or co-author of dozens of peer reviewed journal articles.