title: Wiring the nervous system: from form to function.
abstract: The RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology recently hosted a joint UK-Asian Pacific Developmental Biology Network meeting called 'Development and Emergence of Function in the Nervous System'. The meeting's program, which was organized by James Briscoe and Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, covered a spectrum of processes and mechanisms in neurodevelopment, ranging from the patterning of neural tissue to the initiation of a functional nervous system. One idea to have emerged during this meeting is that 'form underlies function'. Here we discuss some of the themes that were addressed and provide a broad impression of what was a highly stimulating and successful conference.
authors.affiliation: RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology, Kobe 650-0047, Japan. fumio@cdb.riken.jp
authors.forename: Fumio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Matsuzaki
authors.forename: Karuna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sampath
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning; D015509:Developmental Biology; D004330:Drosophila; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008954:Models, Biological; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009420:Nervous System / Q000196:embryology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism; D015027:Zebrafish