Jaque Buster

Jaque Buster (born November 13, 1947 in Saint-Marie (Canada) , Canada ) is a Canadian human medicine and embryologist.

He was born in Saint-Marie, Quebec, Canada, the son of a carpenter. He studied human medicine at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Quebec. From 1974 he conducted research at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg on gastrulation in the development of vertebrates using the sea hare model . His research group studied the chemotaxis that induces gastrulation. At the time, Buster suspected that a fibroblast growth factor controls gastrulation, which was not taken up again until decades later. He was one of the first to relate gastrulation to the fibroblast growth factor and thus laid a foundation for the chemotactic considerations of embryonic development.

Individual evidence

^ D. Dormann, CJ Weijer: Chemotactic cell movement during Dictyostelium development and gastrulation. In: Current opinion in genetics & development. 16 (4), 2006 Aug, OCLC 109921232 , pp. 367-373.

personal data
SURNAME	Buster, Jaque
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian medicine doctor and embryologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Marie (Canada)

[1] D. Dormann, CJ Weijer: Chemotactic cell movement during Dictyostelium development and gastrulation. In: Current opinion in genetics & development. 16 (4), 2006 Aug, OCLC 109921232 , pp. 367-373.