Date Topic and Reading

Apr 5 Overview; medical implications of developmental biology Ch. 1, 21

Apr 7 Experimental embryology: cell interactions; cytoplasmic factors Ch. 3, 8

Apr 12 Axis formation and segmentation I: Drosophila Ch. 9

Apr 14 Axis formation and segmentation II: vertebrates Ch. 10

Apr 19 Tissue specification: neural induction Ch. 10, 12

Apr 21 " Student Presentations

Apr 26 Midterm I

Apr 28 Tissue specification II: neurogenesis Ch. 10

May 3 Morphogenesis I: gastrulation Ch. 10, 11

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May 5 Morphogenesis II: neural crest Ch. 13

May 10 Organ formation I: limb development Ch. 16

May 12 Organ formation II: limb development (cont.) Ch. 16

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May 17 Organ formation III: skeleton Ch. 13

May 19 Midterm II

May 24 Organ formation IV: heart and blood Ch. 15

May 26 Organ formation V: heart and blood (cont.) Ch. 15

May 31 Organ formation V: gut derivatives Ch. 15

June 2 Organ formation VI: muscle, cell determination genes Ch. 14

June 7 Sex determination Ch. 5, 17

June 9 Growth, stem cells and oncogenes Ch. 4, 21

June 16 Final Exam (1:30-3:30 pm)