Plasticity Without Genetic Change - Bioelectric Embryos & Synthetic Proto-Organisms
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Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Knowledge Gaps: prediction
The State of the Art
Where is Anatomical Pattern Specified?
Same anatomy, despite perturbations
Somatic electrical activity is the cognitive medium of morphogenetic decision-making
Writing High-level Setpoints into Cellular CI
Endogenous membrane voltage pattern is crucial for Xenopus embryonic brain patterning
Re-writing Target Morphology
Bioelectrically-Encoded Pattern Memory
An organism's genome sets its Target Morphology, doesn't it?
Developing Quantitative, Predictive Multiscale
Machine Learning for Model Discovery
Cell Collectives can pursue Target Morphologies other than their Genomic Default
Biomedical Applications
Synthetic Morphology: probing the creativity of cellular collective intelligence
Xenobots - a novel proto-organism
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Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM)