November 6 2025 – 13h: international seminar Palevoprim n° 71
Speaker
Morgane dubied
Postdoctoral Researcher LBBE UMR 5558 (Lyon) & Associated Researcher Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (Dijon)
Topic
Postnatal development and evolution of craniofacial complex in rodents
The skull is a highly integrated structure that is architecturally and functionally complex. At the same time, paradoxically, this unit is highly evolvable and exhibits a wide variety of shapes.
Epigenetic interactions during growth enable the skull to respond to mechanical stimuli and to compensate for and coordinate the growth of the various organs that make up the head in order to acquire and/or maintain certain functions.
They enable normal development by controlling bone remodelling. Despite this central role, the importance of these interactions in expressing differences between species and, in the longer term, in clade dynamics remains poorly understood. The aim here is to study I) the establishment of craniofacial disparity in rodents during development and II) to assess the importance of epigenetic processes during this postnatal growth.
Lieu
Room 410, 3rd floor, North wing, Build. B35, university of Poitiers.