19:10 - 21:00
Room: Ishikawa Ongakudō Interchange Hall
Poster Session
JAK/STAT guarantees robust differentiation of neural stem cells by shutting off biological noises in the developing fly brain
Makoto Sato1, Tetsuo Yasugi1, Yoshitaro Tanaka2, Masaharu Nagayama2, Shin-Ichiro Ei2
1Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, 2Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

The development of live organisms is precisely regulated by a sequence of gene functions even in the presence of biological noises. However, it is difficult to evaluate the effect of the noises in vivo and the mechanisms how the noise is filtered during development is largely unknown. To unveil the noise canceling mechanism, we use the fly visual system, where the timing of differentiation of neural stem cells is spatio-temporally ordered. Our mathematical modeling predicts that JAK/STAT signaling plays a role in noise canceling to guarantee the robust progression of the differentiation wave in silico. We further demonstrate that the suppression of JAK/STAT signaling causes stochastic and ectopic neural stem cell differentiation in vivo, suggesting an evolutionally conserved function of JAK/STAT to regulate the robustness of stem cell differentiation.


Reference:
Mo-P13-29
Session:
Poster Session 13 “Development and function of Macrophage and DC”
Presenter/s:
Makoto Sato
Presentation type:
Poster Presentation
Room:
Ishikawa Ongakudō Interchange Hall
Date:
Monday, 30 October 2017
Time:
19:10 - 21:00
Session times:
19:10 - 21:00