Join us Thursday 3/5 for the Ayala School Dean's Distinguished Lecture ft. Dr. Susan V. Bryant

Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Featuring Susan V. Bryant, Ph.D. Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology and Former Dean of the Ayala School University of California, Irvine “Regeneration – Pattern – Stem Cells” Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. Reception to follow: 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Crystal Cove Auditorium, UC Irvine Student Center The lecture is open to the public and campus community Parking is available for $10 per vehicle at the UCI Student Center Parking Structure Abstract: As humans, we share many characteristics with our vertebrate relatives, including a similar body plan and similar developmental mechanisms. Among these relatives are animals that are capable of perfect regeneration of lost body parts. Professor Susan Bryant has focused her research on these animals in order to discover the mechanisms for regeneration. Over her career at UCI, she has been fortunate to have worked with outstanding graduate students, postdocs and faculty colleagues. Together they have been able to identify many common features of development and regeneration. In her talk Professor Bryant will discuss several of their key findings about how cells behave in response to injury so as to regenerate lost body parts. The most important of these principles of regeneration is the observation that a functional relationship exists between the control of growth and the control of pattern formation, a topic that Professor Bryant first started thinking about as a graduate student. Her talk will focus on how regulation of cell cycle kinetics controls pattern formation leading to regeneration, and how, when these processes become uncoupled, proliferation without pattern formation leads to cancer. Registration is required by Monday, March 2, 2015 Register now. Visit the Student Center website for directions.