Topics discussed included:
1) Interesting things learned this week in Kobe at The Joint Meeting of The Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists & The Japan Society for Cell Biology, including:
a) the nature of "stem" spermatogonia and their differentiation in the mouse testis
b) the physical mechanism by which cell packing is controlled by the dynamics of forces at the cell-population scale in the Drosophila wing model system
2) the key features of "Dark-fly" reared in darkness for 57 years as revealed by whole-genome sequencing in the recent paper from this Graduate School of Science:
Genome Features of “Dark-Fly”, a Drosophila Line Reared Long-Term in a Dark Environment
by Minako Izutsu et al.
3) the appearance of some of our students and faculty to introduce their lives as students and scientists and their studies on regeneration of lost body parts by various animals in an episode of the NHK variety show "Aho Suki"
4) roles of cell movement and adhesion in regeneration
5) the origin, practice, and special appeal of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
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