The Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists

Develop. Growth Differ. (2015) 57, 97

doi: 10.1111/dgd.12206

Preface

Organogenesis and Morphogenesis This Special Issue of Development, Growth and Differentiation centres on the broad topic of “Morphogenesis and Organogenesis.” This initiative was stimulated by the 47th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Developmental Biology (JSDB), 27th–30th May 2014 in Nagoya which was co-organised by the APDBN. This topic was inspired particularly by themes raised in the Asia Pacific Developmental Biology Network (APDBN) Symposium in the meeting, Mechanisms of Morphogen Signaling in Pattern Formation, Organogenesis and Homeostasis and in the SpainJapan Joint Symposium “Morphogenesis and Organogenesis.” The APDBN regularly co-organizes these meetings with the JSDB, which on this occasion brought together over 600 scientists from Japan and about 90 from overseas, making this not just a national meeting but an international developmental biology meeting of major impact. The JSDB (http://www.jsdb.jp/) was inaugurated in 1968, and with over 1300 members is the largest national society for developmental biology other than the US society. The journal Development, Growth and Differentiation is the organ of the JSDB, with the aim to project itself as a core journal in the field of Developmental Biology, and this aim has been accepted by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The APDBN (http://www.apdbn.org/) has been in existence since 2004 with the aims of promoting exchange of ideas and resources in this region, and facilitating interchange of researchers and students; together these promote collaborative research and training at all levels from individual to national. Another part of the APDBN remit is to promote public awareness of developmental biology concepts and the importance of research in this area. As well as co-organizing the JSDB Annual Meeting, at a direct practical level the APDBN supports research activities through the APDBN Travel Awards and the joint development of resources such as knockout mouse lines, with support from the RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology (http://www.cdb.riken.jp/). This volume of Development, Growth and Differentiation presents eight reviews on an exciting range of developmental topics. Firstly, Yue Xiong, Chunying Liu

and Yun Zhao explore the control of the important developmental regulators, the hedgehog genes, in Decoding Ci: from partial degradation to inhibition. Switching to the organ level, Ke Tang, Guangdun Peng, Yunbo Qiao, Lu Song and Naihe Jing take a broad view on early CNS development in The Intrinsic Regulations in Neural Fate Commitment and Ka Kui Tong, Tsz Ching Ma and Kin Ming Kwan focus on BMP/Smad signaling and embryonic cerebellum development: stem cell specification and heterogeneity of anterior rhombic lip. Continuing the CNS development theme, Minoru Omi and Harukazu Nakamura explore Engrailed and tectum development. Switching to the autonomic nervous system and its neural crest precursor, Rachael Lumb and Quenten Schwarz address the topic Sympathoadrenal neural crest cells: the known, unknown and forgotten?, and Mandy Kam and Vincent Lui review positional coding in Roles of Hoxb5 in the survival and patterning of the vagal and trunk neural crest cells. New ideas on the control of organ size are introduced by Hironori Wada and Koichi Kawakami in Size control during organogenesis: Development of the lateral line organs in zebrafish. Finally, from Kwok Yeung Tsang, Danny Chan and Kathryn Cheah, Lineage extension chondrocytes and the ontogeny of bone cells, discusses the longstanding controversy about the possible contribution of chondrocytes to the osteoblast lineage and recent studies which have helped resolve the debate. This issue was initiated by Harukazu (Kazu) Nakamura as Editor-in-Chief, Development Growth & Differentiation, with the support of Kathryn Cheah from Department of Biochemistry, The University of Hong Kong and Don Newgreen, from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne. On behalf of the JSDB and the APDBN, the editors would like to thank all the contributors to this timely volume. Don Newgreen Oceanian Editor Kathryn Cheah Asian Editor Harukazu Nakamura Editor in Chief

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