Developmental Biology

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Development and Evolution: Introduction - Prof. Hazel Sive
2	Development and Evolution: Introduction (cont.), Dorsoventral Axis - Prof. Hazel Sive
3	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Vertebrate Development I
4	Dorsoventral Axis (II), Anteroposterior Axis - Prof. Hazel Sive
5	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Vertebrate Development II	Self quiz due
6	Nervous System: Background Descriptive, Morphogenesis - Prof. Martha Constantine-Paton
7	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Nervous System I
8	Embryonic Left-Right Asymmetry: A Fundamental Problem of Patterning Bearing on Cell, Developmental, and Evolutionary Biology - Guest Lecturer: Dr. Michael Levin, The Forsyth Institute and Harvard School of Dental Medicine
9	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Left/Right Axis	Exam 1 due one day after Ses #9
10	Neural Development: Patterning Cell Types in the Spinal Cord - Prof. Martha Constantine-Paton
11	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Nervous System II
12	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Nervous System III
13	Organogenesis - Guest Lecturer: Dr. Thomas M. Schultheiss, Harvard Medical School
14	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Organogenesis
15	Finding a Morphogen Gradient Using Forward Genetics: Dorsal-ventral Patterning by BMPs in Drosophila Embryos - Guest lecturer: Dr. Laurel Raftery, MGH/Harvard Medical School	Exam 2 due
16	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Drosophila
17	Morphogenesis: Building 3D Structure - Prof. Hazel Sive
18	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Morphogenesis
19	Stem Cells: Units of Development and Regeneration - Guest lecturer: Dr. Fernando D. Camargo, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
20	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Stem Cells
21	Student Led Discussion Presentation: C. elegans
22	Cloning and Epigenetics - Prof. Hazel Sive	Synthesis assignment due
23	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Epigenesis and Cloning
24	Student Led Discussion Presentation: Human Development	Graduate students: final papers due