Exciting times to study the identity and evolution of cell types

Maria Sachkova; Pawel Burkhardt

doi:10.1242/dev.178996

Exciting times to study the identity and evolution of cell types

Development. 2019 Sep 19;146(18):dev178996. doi: 10.1242/dev.178996.

Authors

Maria Sachkova¹, Pawel Burkhardt²

Affiliations

¹ Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, 5008 Bergen, Norway.
² Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, 5008 Bergen, Norway [email protected].

PMID: 31537583
DOI: 10.1242/dev.178996

Abstract

The EMBO/EMBL Symposium on 'The Identity and Evolution of Cell Types' took place in Heidelberg, Germany, on 15-19 May 2019. The symposium, which brought together a diverse group of speakers addressing a wide range of questions in multiple model systems, provided a platform to discuss how the concept of a cell type should be considered in the era of single cell omics techniques and how cell type evolution can be studied.

Keywords: Cell fate; Computational analysis; Evolution; Single cell sequencing.

Publication types

Congress
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution*
Cells / cytology*
Humans
Models, Biological
Phylogeny