
| Date and Time | 2006-09-08 15:30:00 - 16:30:00 | 
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| Venue | Auditorium C1F | 
| Speaker | Janet Heasman Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation | 
| Title | Wnt signaling and dorsal axis formation | 
| Poster | click here to download (PDF) | 
| Host | Masatoshi Takeichi | 
| Summary | Wnt signaling controls the formation of the dorsal axis in vertebrates. Recent work in Xenopus has identified the essential ligand-receptor interaction and the mechanism of signal transduction. |