title: Making waves: the rise and fall and rise of quantitative developmental biology.
abstract: The tenth annual RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology symposium 'Quantitative Developmental Biology' held in March 2012 covered a range of topics from coat colour patterning to the mechanics of morphogenesis. The studies presented shared a common theme in which a combination of physical theory, quantitative analysis and experiment was used to understand a specific cellular process in development. This report highlights these innovative studies and the long-standing questions in developmental biology that they seek to answer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. lad43@pitt.edu
authors.forename: Lance A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.forename: Buzz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Baum
mesh_terms: D019521:Body Patterning; D016764:Cell Polarity / Q000502:physiology; D015509:Developmental Biology / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009024:Morphogenesis; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000235:genetics*; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods