UCONJ 542 Vertebrate Development
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Winter 2012 weeks 1-5

Tues-Thurs 1-2:20

HSB T-531

Instructors:

Weiqing Li   weiqing@u.washington.edu

David Raible draible@u.washington.edu


This course will cover the early events in vertebrate embryonic development and in doing so will touch on key concepts and processes in developmental biology such as inductive interactions, morphogen gradients, cell fate specification, and morphogenetic cell movements. The course combines faculty lectures and student-run reviews of primary literature. CONJ542 is organized as a sister course with UCONJ 534, Vertebrate Neural Development, which will not be offered in 2010. Students are encouraged, although not required to take both courses.

UCONJ 542 Outline

Thurs. Jan. 05      Lecture 1: Gastrulation (Kimelman)
Tue. Jan. 10        Discussion 1 Thurs. Jan. 12      Lecture 2: Early Development (Raible)
Tue. Jan. 17        Discussion 2
Thurs. Jan. 29      Lecture 3: Morphogenesis (Raible)
Tue. Jan. 24        Discussion 3 Thurs. Jan. 26      Lecture 4: Plant Development  (Torii)
Tue. Jan 31         Discussion 4
Thurs. Feb. 02     Lecture 5: Development and Longevity (Li)
Tue. Feb. 07       Discussion 5



Discussion assignments and Papers


Thurs Jan 5: Lecture 1
David Kimelman: Gastrulation and mesoderm patterning
Movie links


Thu
rs Jan 12: Lecture 2
David Raible

Thurs Jan 19: Lecture 3
David Raible

Thurs Jan 26:  Lecture 4
Keiko Torii

Thurs Feb 2: Lecture 5
Weiqing Li: Development and Longevity