Gabor Forgacs, Stuart A. Newman

Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how physics can be used to analyze the changes that cells and tissues undergo during development. Major stages and components of the biological development process are introduced and analyzed. Full-color throughout, this comprehensive textbook is suitable for graduate and upper-undergraduate courses in physics and biology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 926g
• ISBN-13: 9780521783378
• ISBN-10: 0521783372
• Artikelnr.: 15101792

Autorenporträt

Gabor Forgacs grew up in Budapest, Hungary. He worked as a bellboy, a waiter and as a front desk concierge before he gradually became a hotelier there during the 1970s. That was a lucrative career at the time. He worked his way up to the top and became the General Manager of a three-star full service hotel in Budapest. He was 38 and already an accomplished hotelier when he immigrated with his wife and two small children to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There he worked at The Inn on the Park, a Four Seasons hotel for nearly two years before he switched to academia and became an associate professor at Ryerson University. He taught hospitality management courses, presented at international conferences and published papers in international journals. Gabor is also a textbook author: his book "Revenue Management. Maximizing Revenue in Hospitality Operations" published by the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute is used by educators and practitioners in dozens of countries all over the world. In his memoire he shares with the readers the most memorable stories from his time at hotel operations. He also provides readers with an entertaining insight into the world of hotels.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The cell: fundamental unit of developmental systems; 2. Cleavage and blastula formation; 3. Cell states: stability, oscillation, differentiation; 4. Cell adhesion, compartmentalization and lumen formation; 5. Epithelial morphogenesis: gastrulation and neurulation; 6. Mesenchymal morphogenesis; 7. Pattern formation: segmentation, axes and asymmetry; 8. Organogenesis; 9. Fertilization: generating one living dynamical system from two; 10. Evolution of developmental mechanisms; Glossary; References; Index.

Rezensionen

'There is no shortage of textbooks devoted to development biology, but it is remarkably rare to find any substantial treatment of physical considerations ... Forgacs and Newman have ... done the developmental biology community a great service ... An interesting feature of this book is the inclusion of a substantial amount of material on models of genetic/biochemical networks and pattern formation ...' Nick Monk, University of Sheffield