Speaker Profiles

Peter Reddien

Peter Reddien

researcher, Whitehead Institute
http://www.wi.mit.edu/research/faculty/reddien.htm...
Regeneration of tissues and organs is one of the great unsolved mysteries of biology. Whitehead Member Peter W. Reddien works to shed light on that mystery through research on the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, a flatworm with regenerative powers that have captured the imagination of biologists for more than a century.  [more]