Time：10:00-11:30 AM, Wednesday, October 30，2024

    Host：Dr. Kai Lei, Principal Investigator, School of Life Sciences

    Venue：Room E9-109, Yungu Campus

Speaker:

Dr. Phillip Newmark, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison & the Burnell R. Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research

Dr. Phillip A. Newmark is the Burnell R. Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research, and a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a position he has held since 2008.

Abstract:

Planarians are free-living flatworms with amazing regenerative abilities. In addition to their somatic tissues, planarians can also regenerate their germ cells. I will review our studies on the systemic control of reproductive system development and regeneration in planarians, and then present recent work to identify niche-derived factors that regulate germ cell development. This work will show how such signals are deployed differently between planarians and their parasitic cousins, the schistosomes, with important implications for the evolution of these parasites. Finally, I will discuss our efforts to characterize a natural product that paralyzes the infective larvae of schistosomes and can prevent them from infecting mammals.

Contact：

Wenyue Yu: yuwenyue@westlake.edu.cn

School of Life Sciences