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Developmental Biology BIO412 Spring 2011 |
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Lewis and Clark Department of Biology |
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| Class: T, Th; 11:30 AM-1 PM in Howard 244 Lab: Fr 1-4 PM in Red Lab Office Hours: M 11-12 PM, F 11:30-12:30 PM, by appointment, and when my door is open |
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| Instructor: Greg Hermann Office: Bio-Psych 226 Phone: x7568 Email: hermann@lclark.edu |
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| An image of a C. elegans bean-stage embryo highlighting polarization of developing intestinal cells (from Leung et al. 1999). The arrows point to the basal and the M to the apical surfaces. Nuclei are asymmetrically localized near the apical cell membranes. Students in Bio412 perform original research investigating the mechanisms regulating organelle polarity during organogenesis. | |||||||||||||
| Welcome to the incredibly fascinating, rapidly moving, and always changing world of developmental biology. In this course we discuss four major questions in the field: (1) How does pattern emerge during development? (2) What are the molecular mechanisms that regulate patterning? (3) How has pattern evolved? (4) What are the cellular processes that underlie the formation of morphology. We will discuss some of the hypotheses, experiments, and results that have led to our current (and only partially complete) answers to these questions. | |||||||||||||
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