Murat Arcak

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  Spatial Patterns of Gene Expression in Multicellular Ensembles
  Murat Arcak

  Breaking symmetry in spatially distributed systems is a fascinating dynamical systems problem and is of fundamental interest to developmental biology. In this talk we discuss several feedback mechanisms that enable formation of gene expression patterns in multi-cellular organisms. With the help of dynamical models we reveal the key structural properties that are necessary for patterning and present novel synthetic gene networks built upon these models.