Textbook: A Photographic Atlas of Developmental Biology,  Shirley J. Wright

Lectures Mon-Wed-Fri 9-9:50, 104 Peabody Hall     

Albert Harris: akharris@med.unc.edu; please cc: to chlamy@duke.edu
Office room 403 Fordham Hall, phone 966-1230
Office Hours: by prior arrangement   
Home phone 493-1572 (Durham)

Corey Johnson: corey_johnson@med.unc.edu, phone 724-5429
Office Hours: 10-12 MWF, in 138 Wilson

1) Wed. Jan 11	What happens in development; fertilization, cleavage, differentiation, rearrangements	web page
2) Fri. Jan. 13	Compare embryology of sea urchin, frog, bird & mammal; similarities & differences	web page
Mon. Jan 16	Holiday in honor of Rev Martin Luther King jr.
3) Wed. Jan. 18	Continue comparison of sea urchin, frog, bird & mammal; gastrulation and neurulation	web page
4) Fri. Jan. 20	Differentiation and Symmetry	differentiation, symmetry
5) Mon. Jan. 23	Tensors	web page
6) Wed. Jan. 25	Historical background of embryological thought and study	web page
7) Fri. Jan. 27	Experimental embryology: mosaic vs. regulative development	web page
8) Mon. Jan. 30	Advanced unicellular/primitive multicellular organisms; what they tell us about embryology	web page
9) Wed. Feb. 1	Fertilization	web page
10) Fri. Feb. 3	Cleavage	web page
11) Mon. Feb. 6	First Exam	Review questions
12) Wed. Feb. 8	Induction and Gastrulation	web page
13) Fri. Feb. 10	Induction and Gastrulation, continued	web page
14) Mon Feb. 13	Avian/mammalian gastrulation and fish development	web page
15) Wed Feb. 15	Neurulation and axial structures I	web page
16) Fri Feb. 17	Neurulation and axial structures II	web page
17) Mon Feb. 20	Mesoderm	web page
18) Wed Feb. 22	Extraembryonic membranes	web page
19) Fri. Feb. 24	Pattern formation	web page
20) Mon. Feb. 27	Heart development	web page
21) Wed. Mar. 1	Second Exam	review questions
22) Fri. Mar. 3	Endoderm: Digestive and Respiratory Systems	web page
23) Mon. Mar. 6	Head and neck development I	web page
24) Wed. Mar. 8	Head and neck development II	web page
25) Fri. Mar. 10	Neural Crest	web page
	Spring vacation      March 13-17
26) Mon . Mar. 20	Research and theories about how cells and collagen sometimes get arranged into anatomical patterns	web page
27) Wed. Mar. 22	Ectodermal Derivatives: Hair, feathers, scales	web page
28) Fri. Mar. 24	Stomodeum, teeth	web page
29) Mon. Mar. 27	Ectodermal placodes of the head: olfactory placode, lens, inner ear	see web page for March 24
30) Wed. Mar. 29	Visual system development: neuronal targeting
31) Fri. Mar. 31	Limb development I
32) Mon. Apr. 2	Limb development II
33) Wed. Apr. 5	Urogenital system
34) Fri. Apr. 7	Sex determination
35) Mon. Apr. 10	Third Exam
36) Wed. Apr. 12	Regeneration
Friday April 14	Holiday
37) Mon. Apr. 17	Metamorphosis
38 Wed. Apr. 19	Cancer
39) Fri. Apr. 21	Cellular automata
40) Mon. Apr. 24	Cell sorting
41) Wed. Apr. 26	Plant development
42) Fri. Apr. 28	Evo-Devo
Monday May 1	8:00 AM Final Exam