(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
June 5th

7:00 pm Reception & Dinner – Loeb Tent
Carole LaBonne, Northwestern; David Sherwood, Duke

Welcome and Course overview Bring your posters

Monday
June 6th

Morning lecture (9am)

 

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

Tuesday
June 7th

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.

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

Wednesday
June 8th

Morning lecture (9am)

Nipam Patel, MBL & Berkeley, Introduction to embryonic development of Drosophila melanogaster & Matt Ronshaugen

Afternoon (1pm) & eve (7pm) labs

Fly lab

Thursday
June 9th

Morning lecture (9am)

David Sherwood Duke University, Intro to C. elegans and cell matrix interactions

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

C. elegans lab

Friday
June 10th

Morning lecture (9am)
Candle House 104/105

Nipam Patel, MBL & Berkeley, & Matt Ronshaugen Arthropod embryonic body patterning and identification and function of non-coding RNAs

Afternoon lab (1pm)  

Arthropod lab

Evening lab (7pm)

open lab

Saturday
June 11th

Morning lecture (9am)
Candle House 104/105

Bob Goldstein & Maureen Barr, UNC and Rutgers, Early C. elegans development & Ciliogenesis and ciliary extracellular vesicles.

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

open lab

Sunday
June 12th

Morning

free time

Ethics discussion (Publishing)
(5:00-6:30pm)

Carole LaBonne & Dave Sherwood

Evening  (7pm)

Course Dinner (Carole’s house)

Things to do this week:  T-shirt design for class

Monday
June13th

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

Tuesday
June 14th

Morning lecture (9am)

Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado Stowers Inst., planaria & regeneration

Afternoon (1pm) and evening (7pm) labs

Planaria

Wednesday
June 15th

Morning lecture (9am)

Mansi Srivastava Harvard, acoelomorph development & regeneration

Afternoon (1pm) and evening (7pm) labs

Acoels

Thursday
June 16th

Morning lecture (9am)

David Matus and Bob Goldstein, Stony Brook and UNC, Cell cycle in development and tardigrades

Afternoon lab (1pm)

tardigrades

Evening lab (7pm)

open lab

Friday
June 17th

Morning lecture (9am)

Angela DePace (Dan Lecturer) and Otger Campas Harvard & UCSB/Dresden

Afternoon (1pm) & evening labs (7pm)

open lab

Saturday
June 18th

Morning Discussion
Module 1 concepts 
(10:30-11:45am Speck)

Arthropods/flies, C. elegans, Acoels, Planaria, and tardigrades

Afternoon lab (1pm)

open lab

Class presentations
(9pm Loeb Quad)

Show ‘n Tell 1 / lab clean up

Sunday
June 19th

Morning

free time

Afternoon (4pm)

Scavenger Hunt

Evening (7pm)

Course Dinner

Module 2: Chicks, Frogs, Mouse, Ascidians, Skates  (June 20-July 2)

Monday
June 20th

Morning lecture (9am)

Carole LaBonne, Northwestern Univ. Introduction to Xenopus Development

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Xenopus  lab

Tuesday
June 21st

Morning lecture (9am)

Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Univ. of Oxford, Introduction to chick development

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

chick  lab

Wednesday
June 22nd

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

Thursday
June 23rd

Morning lecture (9am)

Andrew Gillis, Univ. Cambridge, sharks/skates/holocephalans   Chris Lowe, Hopkins Marine Station (Stanford) hemichordates

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

skate  lab

Friday
June 24th

Morning lecture
9:00-11:00am
Speck Auditorium

John Young, Simmons Univ, Limb initiation. Peter Lwigale Rice University

Afternoon and Evening lab

open lab

Saturday
June 25th

Morning lecture (9am)
Speck Auditorium

Chenbei Chang, Univ Alabama and Andrea Wills, Washington University, Morphogenesis and regeneration in Xenopus

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

open lab

Sunday
June 26th

All day

Whale watching  Dinner in Hyannis

Monday
June 27th

Morning lecture (9am)

Amy Ralston, MSU  Intro to Mammalian Development

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

mouse lab

Tuesday
June 28th

Morning lecture (9am)

 Ed Munro, University of Chicago  Bob Zeller, San Diego State Univ Ascidian Development

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

Ascidian  lab

Wednesday
June 29th

Morning lecture (9am)

Crystal Rogers (Rafferty Lecturer), UC Davis   
Helen Willsey, UCSF 

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

open lab

Thursday
June 30th

Morning lecture (9am)

Mike Shapiro (Saunders Lecturer) Univ. Utah
Saunders lecture

Afternoon (1pm) & evening (7pm) labs

open lab

Friday
July 1st

Morning  lecture
(9am)

Ben Allen, U Michigan

Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs

open lab

Saturday
July 2nd

Morning Discussion (9am)
Module 2 concepts 

Chick, Xenopus, Ciona, Skate, Mouse  Lectures

Morning (9am) & afternoon (1pm) labs

open lab

Class presentations (9pm) Loeb Quad

Show ‘n Tell 2 / lab clean up

Module 3: Zebrafish, Cephalopods, Mollusks, Annelids, Cnidaria (July 3- July 17)

Sunday
July 3rd

Morning

free time

Afternoon lecture (1pm)

zebrafish lab orientation

Evening

Course Dinner (Carole’s house)

Monday
July 4th

Morning

parade preparation

Afternoon

Woods Hole parade

Evening

BBQ on Quad & fireworks near Nobska Point Ledge

Tuesday
July 5th

Morning lab (9 am)

zebrafish lab

Afternoon lecture (1pm)

Elke Ober, Univ. Copenhagen, endoderm development

Evening lab (9pm)

zebrafish lab

Wednesday
July 6th

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

Evening lab (7pm)

spiralian lab

Thursday
July 7th

Morning lab (9am)

open lab

Afternoon lecture (1pm)

Carrie Albertin and Tessa Montague,
MBL & Columbia Univ., Cephalopod development

 Evening lab (7pm)

Carrie Albertin, Karen Crawford, and Tessa Montague
cephalopod lab

Friday
July 8th

Morning lecture

open lab

Afternoon lecture (1pm)

Tatjana Piotrowski, Stowers Inst., lateral line development in zebrafish

Evening lab (7pm)

open lab

Saturday
July 9th

Morning lab (9am)

open lab

Afternoon (~4pm) &  Evening dinner (7pm) Physiology

Softball & Dinner with Physiology

Sunday
July 10th

Morning and afternoon

free time

Evening

Course Dinner (Carole’s house)

Monday
July 11th

Morning (9am)

Ken Poss, Duke Regeneration in Zebrafish

Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs

open lab

Tuesday
July 12th

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

Wednesday
July 13th

Morning lecture (9am)

Antonio Giraldez, Yale  Maternal to zygotic transition

Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs

open lab

Thursday
July 14th

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

Friday
July 15th

Morning lecture (9am)

Dave McClay (Kessel Lecturer), Duke University

Afternoon (1pm) & Evening (7pm) labs

open lab

Saturday
July 16th

Morning lecture (9am)

Neil Shubin, University of Chicago (SDB Lecturer)
Course wrap up

Afternoon lab (1pm)

open lab

Evening (9pm)

Show and Tell 3

Sunday
July 17th

Morning Discussion (9am)
Module 3 concepts 

Zebrafish, Cephalopods, Gastropods, Annelids, Cnidarian, Ctenophores

Afternoon lab (1pm)

lab clean-up

Evening (7:30pm)

course banquet

Monday
July 18th

Morning (by 10am)

check-out and departure