title: Hopeful monsters and morphogens at the beach.
abstract: The Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Conference (August 15-19, 2002) provided the latest insights into how a single cell is transformed into a complex organism. Organisms that flower, slither, walk and fly continue to provide new insights into the cell biological and molecular mechanisms that control cell movement, signalling pathways and post-transcriptional regulation; hopeful monsters sit at our doorstep to provide new insight into evolutionary change and human disease.
authors.affiliation: Developmental Biology Program at Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York NY 10021, USA. l-niswander@ski.mskcc.org
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Niswander
authors.forename: Kathryn V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning; D003445:Crustacea; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009154:Mutation; D012323:RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014981:Xenopus; D015027:Zebrafish