Applied Mathematics Seminar

Chemotaxis is thought to play a key role in coordinating movement in many multi-cellular systems during processes such as, for example, pattern formation, wound healing, tumour growth etc. Here, we will analyse some simple chemotaxis models in the context of the dynamics of primitive streak in the early chick embryo, and in pigmentation patterning on certain growing fishes. We will show that the models mimic the spatiotemporal dynamics observed experimentally and will use the models to make experimentally testable predictions.