Charrier Lab

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ERC Advanced Grant · 2021

Strategies of 3-D growth in brown algae

ALTER e-GROW aims to identify the mechanisms underlying the development of tri-dimensional (3D) tissues in multicellular organisms. Many physical factors influence the shape of an organism growing from a single cell or a small group of cells: the direction of growth along the x, y and z axis; when and how rapidly growth occurs, and whether the region of growth is diffuse or localised. An almost infinite number of combinations of these factors are possible. Most animals and land plants grow in 3D from the onset of embryogenesis. Other multicellular organisms, however, grow in 3D later in their development; for example, by emergence of a 3D bud from a single row of cells (as in mosses) or by…

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