Abstract: The regulation and maintenance of an organ’s shape and structure is a major outstanding question in developmental biology. The Drosophila wing imaginal disc serves as a powerful system for elucidating design principles of the shape formation in epithelial morphogenesis.
Abstract: Circadian rhythms in physiology and behavior are regulated by circadian clocks, ubiquitous molecular transcriptional-translational feedback loops that cycle with a periodicity of ~24 hours. Circadian clocks serve as cellular timekeepers regulating important cell-type specific functions. The phase of circadian rhythms and circadian clocks throughout the body are entrained to the light cycle by signals …