Developmental Biology of a Simple Organism
Richard Losick, April 2008
Harvard University		 Next Part
Lecture Overview
How do simple cells differentiate, assemble into communities, and cope with change? Losick's seminar addresses these questions in the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Part I is an overview of how B. subtilis makes a spore.
Part 1: How Bacillus Subtilis Makes a Spore (28:57)

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    • Part 2: New Research on Multicellularity (18:13)

     


    Part 3: Stochasticity and Cell Fate (25:03)




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