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First published online 11 April 2007
doi: 10.1242/dev.004416

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Wiring the nervous system: from form to function

¹ RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology, Kobe 650-0047, Japan.
² Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 117604 Singapore.

e-mails: fumio{at}cdb.riken.jp; karuna{at}tll.org.sg

SUMMARY

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.