Biology 624 Syllabus - Fall 2009 (Note: click on a lecture and you will get the notes and/or the powerpoint. Click on a reference and you will see symbols. Save that file as a pdf (source file) to your desktop and it should open the paper)
Date and day	Topics (Instructor)	Reading (from Gilbert 8th edition unless noted)	Papers (primary paper is in BOLD)
Aug 25 Tu	No Class
Aug 27 Th	Introduction - history, overview (Bautch)	Ch1:1-24; Ch2:25-26; Ch4:77-80	No paper
Sep 1 Tu	Model Organisms and Concepts (Bautch)	Chapter 2 and 3	No paper
Sep 3 Th	Gametogenesis and Fertilization (Bautch)	Ch7: 175-207; Ch9: 259-263; Ch19:593-622	No paper
Sep 8 Tu	Cleavage (Bautch)	Ch8:211-215, 243-249; Ch9:254-258; Ch11:348-351	Van Buskirk and Schupbach 99; Caceres and Nilson 05
Sep 10 Th	Gastrulation Part 1: Basic Concepts and Formation of the Germ layers (Jin)	Chapters 10 and 11	Heisenberg and Solnica-Krezel, 2008; Kimelman, 2006; Kishigami and Mishina, 2005; Schier and Talbot, 2005
Sep 15 Tu	GastrulationII - Inductions (Jin)	Chapters 10 and 11
Sep 17 Th	GastrulationIII – basic establishment of body axes (Jin)		Anderson et al, 1985; Gehring and Hiromi, 1986; Schneuwly et al, 1987; St Johnston and Nusslein-Volhard, 1992
Sep 22 Tu	GastrulationIV - cell and tissue movements (Bautch)	Ch8:215-216; Ch9:256-259; Ch10:295-302; Ch11:337-347	No paper
Sep 24 Th	Modeling of Developmental Processes (Bautch)		Keller, 2005; Sivak et al, 2005
Sep 29 Tu	Advanced Topics - Stem Cells (Bautch)		Kragl et al, 2009; Kragl News/Views, 2009
Oct 1 Th	Gastrulation V - Establishing Anterior-Posterior Patterns (LaMantia)	Gilbert, p. 343-346; 358-364	Gapin-Botton and Melton, 2000; Gao P et al, 2009
Oct 6 Tu	Neural Induction (Pevny)		Levine and Brivanlou, 2007
Oct 8 Th	Somitogenesis I(LaMantia)	Chapter 14 and 15	Morimoto et al, 2005
Oct 13 Tu	Somitogenesis II (LaMantia)	Chapter 14 and 15	Carapuco et al, 2005
Oct 15 Th	Advanced Topics - Limb Induction (LaMantia)	Tickle, 2002	Thaller and Eichele, 1987; Noji et al, 1991; Niswander et al, 1994
Oct 20 Tu	Neural Patterning I (Pevny)	Briscoe and Ericson, 1999; Diez del Corral and Storey, 2001	Briscoe et al., 2000
Oct 22 Th	Mid-term EXAM (take home)
Oct 22 Th	FALL BREAK - no class
Oct 27 Tu	Neurogenesis I (Pevny)	Bertrand et al, 2002; Diez del Corral and Storey, 2001	Ma et al., 1996
Oct 29 Th	No Class - Symposium (Pevny)
Nov 3 Tu	Neurogenesis II (Pevny)	TBA
Nov 5 Th	Axon guidance I (Pevny)
Nov 10 Tu	Axon guidance II(Pevny)	TBA	Serafini et al, 1996
Nov 12 Th	Axon guidance (Pevny)
Nov 17 Tu	Advanced Topics - Sex determination (Pevny)	No book chapters	Kim et al., 2006 (sorry no pdf file, look at lecture for full reference)
Nov 19 Th	NO CLASS - REQUIRED ATTENDANCE AT THE UNC DEV BIOL SYMPOSIUM
Nov 24 Tu	Tube Formation I - General and Fly Tracheal Development (Bautch)	Lubarsky and Krasnow, 2003 Bryant and Mostov, 2008 Affolter and Caussinus, 2008 this is required reading, but not for paper discussion
Nov 26 Th	THANKSGIVING - no class
Dec 1 Tu	Blood Vessel Formation (Bautch)	Ch.15:482-489	Ghabrial and Krasnow, 2006; Horowitz and Simons, 2008
Dec 3 Th	Blood Vessel Formation (Bautch)	Ch.21:681-689; Ch.4: 81-86	Eichmann et al, 2005; Hellstrom et al, 2007
Dec 8 Tu	Advanced Topic - The Cell Cycle in Development (Duronio)		Budirahardja and Gonczy, 2009
Dec 9 Wed	FINAL EXAM - take home style

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