Seminars and Colloquia
Biology
Why Biomedical Research needs Discovery Research
Thu, Mar 09, 2017,
04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
at 101 Lecture Hall Complex
Prof. Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator,
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
About the speaker:
Prof. Sanchez is a world leader in research related to animal regeneration. Over the last decade, he has developed the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea as a model to study tissue regeneration. His research has uncovered basic mechanisms related to stem cell function in regeneration.
Further Information
Laboratory Web-Page
http://planaria.stowers.org/
TED Talks
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alejandro_sanchez_alvarado
http://www.mbl.edu/research/mbl-fellows/alejandro-sanchez-alvarado/
What is Regeneration?
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-10-88
