Teaching

– De Robertis Lecture Notes –

Teaching Embryology to Medical Students

Lecture 1: How does a single-celled fertilized egg develop into a complex adult? Cell differentiation, stem cells and germ layer formation

Lecture 2: Making babies: Organ formation in the ectoderm, mesoderm endoderm and neural crest

Lecture 3: Molecular regulation of development. Growth factor signaling. Hox genes and the body plan

Presentation for Lecture 3

CM267: Cell Structure, Signaling, and Differentiation-

The Establishment of Spemann’s Organizer and Patterning of the Vertebrate Embryo

Lecture 1: Establishing Cell Asymmetries

Lectures 2-3: The Cortical Rotation, The Wnt/b-Catenin Pathway and Mesoderm Induction

Lecture 4: EVO-DEVO: Evolution of Animal Design

Lecture 5: Molecular Biology of Spemann’s Organizer and Neural Induction