2022 Embryology Schedule
(Lectures are in in Speck Auditorium; labs are 2nd floor Loeb)
Module 1: Intro, Microscopy, Arthropods, C. elegans, Tardigrades,Planaria & Acoels (Jun 5-June 19)
Sunday |
7:00 pm Reception & Dinner – Loeb Tent Welcome and Course overview Bring your posters |
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Monday |
Morning lecture (9am)
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MBL Staff (HR, IT, security, ED, housing, lab safety, animals) Light and confocal microscopy Lecture: Lisa Cameron, (Duke), Michelle Itano, (UNC) & Paula Montero Llopis (Harvard) |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
Light & confocal microscopy labs: Lisa Cameron, Michelle Itano, David Matus, John Young, Paula Montero Llopis, Claire Weaver, Jayson Smith, Isabel Kenny |
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Tuesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Carole and Dave Introduction to Embryology Course and Developmental Biology |
Afternoon lab (1pm) |
Light and confocal microscopy: Abhishek Kumar (MBL) 30 min., lecture on light sheet microscopy in lab, followed by afternoon lab. |
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Evening lectures & lab (7pm) |
Harry Choi, Lecture on HCR Lisa Cameron, Michelle Itano David Matus, Paula Montero Llopis, Claire Weaver, John Young, Jon Henry, tool making, light and confocal microscopy |
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Wednesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Nipam Patel, MBL & Berkeley, Introduction to embryonic development of Drosophila melanogaster & Matt Ronshaugen |
Afternoon (1pm) & eve (7pm) labs |
Fly lab |
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Thursday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
David Sherwood Duke University, Intro to C. elegans and cell matrix interactions |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
C. elegans lab |
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Friday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Nipam Patel, MBL & Berkeley, & Matt Ronshaugen Arthropod embryonic body patterning and identification and function of non-coding RNAs |
Afternoon lab (1pm) |
Arthropod lab |
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Evening lab (7pm) |
open lab |
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Saturday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Bob Goldstein & Maureen Barr, UNC and Rutgers, Early C. elegans development & Ciliogenesis and ciliary extracellular vesicles. |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Sunday |
Morning |
free time |
Ethics discussion (Publishing) |
Carole LaBonne & Dave Sherwood |
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Evening (7pm) |
Course Dinner (Carole’s house) |
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Things to do this week: T-shirt design for class |
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Monday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Sally Horne-Badovinac & Shirin Bahmanyar, Univ of Chicago and Yale., Planar cell polarity/cell-matrix interaction & early embryonic nuclear divisions in C elegans |
afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Tuesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado Stowers Inst., planaria & regeneration |
Afternoon (1pm) and evening (7pm) labs |
Planaria |
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Wednesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Mansi Srivastava Harvard, acoelomorph development & regeneration |
Afternoon (1pm) and evening (7pm) labs |
Acoels |
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Thursday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
David Matus and Bob Goldstein, Stony Brook and UNC, Cell cycle in development and tardigrades |
Afternoon lab (1pm) |
tardigrades |
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Evening lab (7pm) |
open lab |
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Friday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Angela DePace (Dan Lecturer) and Otger Campas Harvard & UCSB/Dresden |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening labs (7pm) |
open lab |
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Saturday |
Morning Discussion |
Arthropods/flies, C. elegans, Acoels, Planaria, and tardigrades |
Afternoon lab (1pm) |
open lab |
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Class presentations |
Show ‘n Tell 1 / lab clean up |
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Sunday |
Morning |
free time |
Afternoon (4pm) |
Scavenger Hunt |
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Evening (7pm) |
Course Dinner |
Module 2: Chicks, Frogs, Mouse, Ascidians, Skates (June 20-July 2)
Monday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Carole LaBonne, Northwestern Univ. Introduction to Xenopus Development |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
Xenopus lab |
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Tuesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Univ. of Oxford, Introduction to chick development |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
chick lab |
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Wednesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Lance Davidson, University of Pittsburgh, Mechanical forces in development, Amy Shyer, Rockefeller, Physical forces, Chick |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Thursday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Andrew Gillis, Univ. Cambridge, sharks/skates/holocephalans Chris Lowe, Hopkins Marine Station (Stanford) hemichordates |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
skate lab |
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Friday |
Morning lecture |
John Young, Simmons Univ, Limb initiation. Peter Lwigale Rice University |
Afternoon and Evening lab |
open lab |
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Saturday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Chenbei Chang, Univ Alabama and Andrea Wills, Washington University, Morphogenesis and regeneration in Xenopus |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Sunday |
All day |
Whale watching Dinner in Hyannis |
Monday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Amy Ralston, MSU Intro to Mammalian Development |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
mouse lab |
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Tuesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Ed Munro, University of Chicago Bob Zeller, San Diego State Univ Ascidian Development |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
Ascidian lab |
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Wednesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Crystal Rogers (Rafferty Lecturer), UC Davis |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Thursday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Mike Shapiro (Saunders Lecturer) Univ. Utah |
Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Friday |
Morning lecture |
Ben Allen, U Michigan |
Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Saturday |
Morning Discussion (9am) |
Chick, Xenopus, Ciona, Skate, Mouse Lectures |
Morning (9am) & afternoon (1pm) labs |
open lab |
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Class presentations (9pm) Loeb Quad |
Show ‘n Tell 2 / lab clean up |
Module 3: Zebrafish, Cephalopods, Mollusks, Annelids, Cnidaria (July 3- July 17)
Sunday |
Morning |
free time |
Afternoon lecture (1pm) |
zebrafish lab orientation |
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Evening |
Course Dinner (Carole’s house) |
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Monday |
Morning |
parade preparation |
Afternoon |
Woods Hole parade |
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Evening |
BBQ on Quad & fireworks near Nobska Point Ledge |
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Tuesday |
Morning lab (9 am) |
zebrafish lab |
Afternoon lecture (1pm) |
Elke Ober, Univ. Copenhagen, endoderm development |
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Evening lab (9pm) |
zebrafish lab |
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Wednesday |
Morning lab (9am) |
zebrafish lab |
Afternoon lecture (1pm) |
Jon Henry and Dede Lyons, MBL & UC San Diego, The Developmental Biology of Spiralians and Nudibranchs as models for neurogenesis, regeneration, and sequestration |
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Evening lab (7pm) |
spiralian lab |
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Thursday |
Morning lab (9am) |
open lab |
Afternoon lecture (1pm) |
Carrie Albertin and Tessa Montague, |
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Evening lab (7pm) |
Carrie Albertin, Karen Crawford, and Tessa Montague |
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Friday |
Morning lecture |
open lab |
Afternoon lecture (1pm) |
Tatjana Piotrowski, Stowers Inst., lateral line development in zebrafish |
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Evening lab (7pm) |
open lab |
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Saturday |
Morning lab (9am) |
open lab |
Afternoon (~4pm) & Evening dinner (7pm) Physiology |
Softball & Dinner with Physiology |
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Sunday |
Morning and afternoon |
free time |
Evening |
Course Dinner (Carole’s house) |
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Monday |
Morning (9am) |
Ken Poss, Duke Regeneration in Zebrafish |
Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Tuesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Celina Juliano and Duygu Ozpolat UC Davis and MBL, Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration in Hydra and Germline Regeneration in Annelids |
Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs |
hydra and annelid lab |
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Wednesday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Antonio Giraldez, Yale Maternal to zygotic transition |
Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Thursday |
Morning lecture |
Leslie Babonis and Bill Browne, Cornell University & University of Miami, Mnemiopsis as a model for functional assays in ctenophores, Nematostella, neurons, and the origin of novel cell types |
Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs |
Nematostella and Ctenophores |
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Friday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Dave McClay (Kessel Lecturer), Duke University |
Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs |
open lab |
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Saturday |
Morning lecture (9am) |
Neil Shubin, University of Chicago (SDB Lecturer) |
Afternoon lab (1pm) |
open lab |
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Evening (9pm) |
Show and Tell 3 |
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Sunday |
Morning Discussion (9am) |
Zebrafish, Cephalopods, Gastropods, Annelids, Cnidarian, Ctenophores |
Afternoon lab (1pm) |
lab clean-up |
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Evening (7:30pm) |
course banquet |
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Monday |
Morning (by 10am) |
check-out and departure |