Fall 2009 Course Syllabus for Biology 316: Principles of Animal Development
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Lecture topic (readings in DB will be given in lecture powerpoints) |
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lab (read lab manual sections and look at plates before coming to lab) |
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1 |
Aug. |
24 |
Introduction to class |
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26 |
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28 |
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Aug. |
31 |
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Compound scopes and Early frog slides (pp 59-66, 72-74, 80-83; Vade Mecum) |
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Sept. |
2 |
Bird cleavage and gastrulation continued |
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4 |
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0-18 hr chick slides (pp. 322-325, 87, 108-121, 134) 24 hr chick slides (pp. 122-132, 135-136; Vade Mecum) |
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3 |
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6 |
Mammal cleavage & gastrulation |
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33 hr chick slides (pp. 87-94, 96-107; Vade Mecum serial slide sequence) |
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9 |
Catch-up |
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11 |
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48 hr chick slides (pp 138-171), 48 hr chick serial section movie |
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4 |
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14 |
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4 mm frog slides (pp. 66-68, 75-79, 83-84) |
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16 |
Mechanisms II: cell fate specification, differentiation and differential gene expression |
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18 |
Catch-up |
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Review |
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5 |
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21 |
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Lab test 1 |
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23 |
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25 |
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Discuss lab exam, hand out reading assignment: Spemann's organizer and self-regulation in amphibian embryos |
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6 |
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28 |
Catch-up, reading assignment due by beginning of class |
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30 |
Review |
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Oct. |
2 |
Lecture test 1 |
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7 |
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5 |
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Chick embryo observations and culture techniques |
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7 |
Specifying the paraxial mesoderm continued |
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9 |
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Frog embryo observations and manipulations, Research topic due |
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8 |
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12 |
Bone, cartilage, muscle continued |
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Retinoic acid experiments on frogs |
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14 |
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16 |
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Observations, discussion, photography of retinoic acid experiments |
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9 |
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19 |
Neural crest continued, hand out reading assignments: |
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Discussion
of How
to write a lab report using retinoic acid experiment |
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21 |
Discussion of quck paper and questions in class reading assignment due at beginning of class |
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23 |
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10 |
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26 |
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Select topics and start designing group lab experiments |
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28 |
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30 |
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Meet with professor and finalize Intro, MMs & schedule |
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11 |
Nov. |
2 |
Patterning
the fruit fly body plan: Part 2 |
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Group lab day 1, Intro, MMs, Schedule for group lab experiments due |
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4 |
Catch-up |
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6 |
Review |
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Group lab day 2, Research outline due |
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12 |
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9 |
Lecture test 2 |
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Group lab day 3 |
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11 |
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13 |
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Group lab day 4 |
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13 |
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16 |
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Group Presentations of Results and Discussion |
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18 |
Catch-up |
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20 |
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Lab test 2 |
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14 |
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23 |
Thanksgiving |
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Thanksgiving |
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25 |
Thanksgiving |
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Thanksgiving |
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27 |
Thanksgiving |
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Thanksgiving |
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15 |
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30 |
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Research presentations |
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Dec. |
2 |
Catch-up, Discuss lab exam |
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4 |
Review |
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Research presentations |