- 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 - Winter Quarter 2003

"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

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