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Embryology
Embryology

Course Date: June 12 - July 25, 2004

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All lectures held at 9:00am in the Whitman Auditorium, unless otherwise noted.
2004 Lecture Schedule


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Monday, June 14

Mark Q. Martindale
University of Hawaii
Overview of Metazoan phylogeny and development of "pre-bilaterians": Ctenophores and Cnidarians

Tuesday, June 15

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
University of Utah School of Medicine

Embryogenesis, Regeneration and Stem Cells in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

Wednesday, June 16

Lisa Nagy
University of Arizona

Mollusk development
Thursday, June 17

Joel Rothman
University of California, Santa Barbara

Cell lineage and Mechanisms of Cell Autonomous specification in C. elegans
Friday, June 18 Joel Rothman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Regulative Development in the C.
elegans embryo
     
Saturday, June 19

Nipam Patel
University Of California, Berkeley

The Evolution of Arthropod Body Patterning
Monday, June 21 Trudi Schupbach
Princeton University
Maternal control of early development in Drosophila
Tuesday, June 22

Eric Wieschaus
Princeton University

Differing roles for maternal and zygotic gene products in early Drosophila development
Wednesday, June 23

Max Telford
University College London

A short course in molecular phylogeny
Monday, June 28 Bob Zeller
San Diego State University
Ascidian Embryogenesis I: Mesoderm Patterning

Tuesday, June 29 Bob Zeller
San Diego State University
Ascidian Embryogenesis II : Notochord and Nervous System

Wednesday, June 30 Eric Davidson
CALTech
The sea urchin endomesoderm gene regulatory network: Logic circuits in developmental specification, and an approach to understanding the evolutionary record

Friday, July 2 Mike Levine
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Cell lineage and Mechanisms of Cell Autonomous specification in C. elegans

Saturday, July 3 William McGinnis
Univ. of California, San Diego
Hox proteins: the evolution of transcription factors and morphology

Monday, July 5 Marianne Bronner-Fraser
CALTech
Formation, Migration and Evolution of Neural Crest: A vertebrate synaptomorphy

Tuesday, July 6 Scott Fraser
CALTech
You can see a lot by watching; lineage and fate in the vertebrate embryo

Wednesday, July 7 Richard Harland
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Experimental embryology in amphibians

Thursday, July 8 Richard Harland
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Signaling and amphibian development

Friday, July 9 Ray Keller
University of Virginia
Morphogenetic mechanisms

Monday, July 12

1:30 pm

Makoto Furutani-Seiki
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Medaka complements zebrafish in identifying functional genes by the forward genetic approach
Tuesday, July 13
1:30 pm
Deborah Yelon
Skirball Institute, NYU
Heart formation in zebrafish: combining patterning and morphogenesis
zebrafish
Wednesday, July 14 Sara Wilson
Columbia University
Chick gastrulation and neural induction
Thursday, July 15 Lee Niswander
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Limb development
Friday, July 16 Josh Sanes
Harvard University
Wiring up the nervous system
Saturday, July 17 Olivier Pourquie
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Vertebrate segmentation
Monday, July 19 Paul Trainor
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Preimplantation and Gastrulation in the mouse
Tuesday, July 20 Robb Krumlauf
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Hox genes and the hindbrain: A story in segments
Wednesday, July 21

Cliff Tabin

Harvard Medical School

Left-right asymmetry
Thursday, July 22

Paul Trainor

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Face to Face: patterning and plasticity in craniofacial development, disease and evolution

Embryology Lecture Archive: 2003


 
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