1. Your review paper is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, 11/22
Day Date Reading Topic
Th 10/13 More plant development
T 10/18 Ch. 9 Mechanisms of morphogenesis
Th 10/20 More morphogenesis
T 10/25 Ch. 8 Cell differentiation
Th 10/ Stem cells
T 11/1 More Cell differentiation
Th 11/3 Ch. 11 Organogenesis
T 11/8 More Organogenesis
Th 11/10 flowering assignment due. in-class assignment on gene expression
 T 11/15 Ch. 12 Development of the nervous system
Th 11/17 More neural development
Your review paper is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, 11/22
T 11/22 Ch The saga of the germ cell
Th 11/24 no class – Thanksgiving Break
T 11/29 EXAM 2 Chapters 2, 7, 8, 9
Th 12/1 parts of Ch 13 Growth
T 12/6 Developmental biology in medicine
Th 12/8 Chapter 14 Evo Devo revisited
The Final Exam will be in our regular classroom on: Thurs, Dec. 15th, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM. The exam will cover all the material in the course.

2. MyoD null mouse

3. identical twins
discordant traits
concordant traits

4. cell biology of neural crest cell migration
identical twins show high
concordance

5. Chapter 9: Morphogenesis
Morphogenesis involves:
cytoskeleton
cell adhesion molecules
extracellular matrix

6. sea urchin gastrulation

8. not in book

9. Hyaluronic acid is in
the jelly coat ECM

10. sea urchin gastrulation 2

11. sea urchin endoderm extension

12. Chondroitin sulfate is a proteoglycan component of a variety of ECM

13. sea urchin endoderm extension

14. sea urchin gastrulation

15. Ch 11 Organogenesis

16. P/D axis

17. limb bud development

18. time in progress zone

19. Shh in situ

20. D/V axis

21. Shh morphogen

22. Three axes patterning summary
Not in your book

23. fore/hind limb

24. Hox genes

29. 11.18 Hox genes 2

33. Kidney
Development I
E11
E17

36. Molecular signals regulating nephrogenesis

37. p. 455 book paragraph

38. Molecular signals regulating nephrogenesis

42. Fig

43. The fruit fly tinman gene is the
ortholog of vertebrate Nkx2.5

44. Fig

45. http://video. google. com/videoplay

46. 11.48 blood vessels