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Development and Evolution: Introduction - Prof. Hazel Sive
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Development and Evolution: Introduction (cont.), Dorsoventral Axis - Prof. Hazel Sive
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Vertebrate Development I |
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Dorsoventral Axis (II), Anteroposterior Axis - Prof. Hazel Sive
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Vertebrate Development II |
Self quiz due |
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Nervous System: Background Descriptive, Morphogenesis - Prof. Martha Constantine-Paton
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Nervous System I |
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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 |
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Left/Right Axis |
Exam 1 due one day after Ses #9 |
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Neural Development: Patterning Cell Types in the Spinal Cord - Prof. Martha Constantine-Paton
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Nervous System II |
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Nervous System III |
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Organogenesis - Guest Lecturer: Dr. Thomas M. Schultheiss, Harvard Medical School |
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Organogenesis |
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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 |
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Drosophila |
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Morphogenesis: Building 3D Structure - Prof. Hazel Sive
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Morphogenesis |
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Stem Cells: Units of Development and Regeneration - Guest lecturer: Dr. Fernando D. Camargo, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research |
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Stem Cells |
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: C. elegans |
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Cloning and Epigenetics - Prof. Hazel Sive
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Synthesis assignment due |
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Epigenesis and Cloning |
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Student Led Discussion Presentation: Human Development |
Graduate students: final papers due |
