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SUMMARY:MAE Colloquium: Nandan Nerurkar (Columbia)
LOCATION:Kimball Hall B11
DESCRIPTION:Mechanobiology of vertebrate gut morphogenesis\n\nTo produce a
 n entire complex organism from a single cell\, the embryo undergoes profo
 und - yet precisely organized - physical transformations during developme
 nt. This requires coordination of genetic and molecular cues with cell be
 haviors that ultimately regulate the mechanical process of shaping tissue
 s and organs. This seminar will describe our efforts to study integration
  between mechanical and biological aspects of intestinal development\, fo
 cusing on a mechanical instability that bends the embryonic intestine int
 o compact loops. This process is essential for orderly packing of the int
 estine within the body\, and errors in this process result in severe\, po
 orly understood birth defects. We will briefly consider mechanical feedba
 ck in this system\, and broadly\, how evolution acts upon tissue mechanic
 s to enact morphological diversity across species.\n\nBio: Nandan Nerurka
 r joined Columbia University as an assistant professor of biomedical engi
 neering in 2018 after completing his postdoctoral training in the Departm
 ent of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He received a B.S. in biologic
 al engineering from University of Maryland\, College Park in 2003\, an M.
 S. in biomedical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2
 005\, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering & applied mechanics from the 
 University of Pennsylvania in 2010.\n\nNerurkar investigates how cells or
 ganize themselves into tissues and organs during embryonic develop\n\nhtt
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