Friday Lectures
Friday, September 28, 2018 3:45 p.m.
Caspary Auditorium
Peter Reddien Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Department Head
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How Stem Cells and Positional Information Lead to Planarian Regeneration
Recommended Readings:
Science News
Lisa Girard. A blueprint for regeneration. March 15, 2018. MIT News
Empirical Articles
Fincher, Christopher T.; Wurtzel, Omri; de Hoog, Thom; et al. (2018). Cell type transcriptome atlas for the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. SCIENCE. 360 (6391): 874-+
Atabay KD, LoCascio SA, de Hoog T, Reddien PW. (2018). Self-organization and progenitor targeting generate stable patterns in planarian regeneration. SCIENCE. 360 (6387):404-409
Scimone, M. Lucila; Cote, Lauren E.; Reddien, Peter W. (2017). Orthogonal muscle fibres have different instructive roles in planarian regeneration. NATURE. 551 (7682): 623-+
Raz, Amelie A.; Srivastava, Mansi; Salvamoser, Ranja; et al. (2017). Acoel regeneration mechanisms indicate an ancient role for muscle in regenerative patterning. NATURE COMMUNCATIONS. 8
Wurtzel, Omri; Oderberg, Isaac M.; Reddien, Peter W. (2017). Planarian Epidermal Stem Cells Respond to Positional Cues to Promote Cell-Type Diversity. DEVELOPMENTAL CELL. 40 (5): 491-504
Scimone, M. Lucila; Kravarik, Kellie M.; Lapan, Sylvain W.; et al. (2014). Neoblast Specialization in Regeneration of the Planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. STEM CELLS REPORTS. 3 (2): 339-352
van Wolfswinkel, Josien C.; Wagner, Daniel E.; Reddien, Peter W. (2014). Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Functionally Distinct Classes within the Planarian Stem Cell Compartment. CELL STEM CELL. 15 (3): 326-339
Wagner, Daniel E.; Wang, Irving E.; Reddien, Peter W. (2011). Clonogenic Neoblasts Are Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells That Underlie Planarian Regeneration. SCIENCE. 332 (6031): 811-816
Review Paper
Tanaka, Elly M.; Reddien, Peter W. (2011). The Cellular Basis for Animal Regeneration. DEVELOPMENTAL CELL. 21 (1): 172-185
Reddien, Peter W. (2011). Constitutive gene expression and the specification of tissue identity in adult planarian biology. TRENDS IN GENETICS. 27 (7): 277-285
Book Chapter
Wang IE, Wagner DE, Reddien PW. (2018). Clonal Analysis of Planarian Stem Cells by Subtotal Irradiation and Single-Cell Transplantation. Planarian Regeneration. 1774:479-495