How are Adult Tissues Regenerated at Scale? 

Event Details

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Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Elly Tanaka, Ph.D., scientific director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA)

Speaker bio(s)

The capability to regenerate entire body parts is observed in some animals. Although they have the same basic bodyplan as other tetrapods, salamanders can regenerate many bodyparts including limbs, heart and the primary body axis. While these structures form during embryogenesis, the same structures must then regenerate at much larger scales. Dr. Elly Tanaka will discuss adaptation or alternative mechanisms used to regenerate body structures at adult scales and in post-embryonic contexts. 

Elly Tanaka received her A.B. at Harvard, her Ph.D. at UCSF and post-doctoral work at University College London. She became groupleader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden then Professor at the TU Dresden and since 2016 Senior Group Leader at the Institute for Molecular Pathology, Vienna. Since April 2024, she is Scientific Director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Vienna. She is interested in how to reconstitute and regenerate complex tissues. She uses natural models of regeneration such as the axolotl, as well as patterning processes in embryonic stem cell derived organoids.

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Tri-Institutional