Prof. Philip Maini: Turing's Theory of Developmental Pattern Formation

Turing's seminal paper "The chemical basis of morphogenesis", published in 1952, proposed that pattern formation in early embryonic development was an emergent, or self-organising, phenomenon driven by diffusion. This ingeneous and highly counter-intuitive idea has formed the basis for an enormous number of subsequent studies from both experimental and theoretical viewpoints.
Maini critiques the model, considers applications to skeletal patterns in the limb, animal coat markings, fish pigmentation and hair patterning, and describes how present-day research is still influenced by this paper.
Presented by Professor Philip Maini, Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford
Recorded on Friday 11 May 2012 at the Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh.
The Turing Research Symposium was organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics in partnership with SICSA and supported by Cambridge University Press.

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We also need to consider that Chromatophores in cold blooded animals behaves different than pigmentation found in the skin, feathers, hair of warm blooded animals.

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Amazing talk! I actually came here when I was reading Turing's paper, and found myself stuck in the middle where he starts calling the leading contributors of morphogens to a particular cell in a ring of cells as nodes on a wave. Though I could not get my answer, but instead came to know about works by Meinhardt.

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