| 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 |