{"id":86,"date":"2011-12-08T19:16:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T19:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2011-12-09T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:32:19","slug":"ventral-nerve-cord-fevelopment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/research\/ventral-nerve-cord-fevelopment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventral Nerve Cord Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to studying brain development in the annelid <em>C. teleta<\/em>, our lab is also interested in characterizing\u00a0ventral nerve cord development.\u00a0 The brain and ventral nerve cord are generated from two distinct cell lineages. \u00a0The brain arises from unsegmented anterior ectoderm, while the ventral nerve cord develops from segmented trunk ectoderm.\u00a0 Furthermore, within spiralians, fate map comparisons show that the brain comes from a homologous group of cells.\u00a0 However, this may not be the case for ganglia in the trunk, which would have important evolutionary implications.\u00a0 Finally, in <em>C. teleta<\/em>, adult neurogenesis and regeneration only occur in the trunk, and study of these processes\u00a0will require a comparison of these modes of neurogenesis with those that occur during embryonic and larval development.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2011\/11\/ContUnt_9v7_58new1a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ContUnt_9v_R_VNC\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-119\"  style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; border: 1px solid #827772;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2011\/11\/ContUnt_9v7_58new1a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2011\/11\/ContUnt_9v7_58new1a.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Ventral nerve cord development\u00a0will be characterized\u00a0by examining the cellular morphology, cellular divisions, gene expression and lineage analysis of small groups of cells (techniques similar to those used to examine brain development in <em>C. teleta<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary results have already revealed interesting developmental differences between these two structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to studying brain development in the annelid C. teleta, our lab is also interested in characterizing\u00a0ventral nerve cord development.\u00a0 The brain and ventral nerve cord are generated from two distinct cell lineages. \u00a0The brain arises from unsegmented anterior ectoderm, while the ventral nerve cord develops from segmented trunk &#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/research\/ventral-nerve-cord-fevelopment\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":254,"parent":7,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/nmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}