Molecular Biology of Animal Development

Catalog description

The course emphasizes comparative molecular genetic analyses of developmental gene networks using vertebrate and Drosophila model systems. BMMB 541 BMMB 541 Molecular Biology of Animal Development (3) This is a required course for graduate students in the IBIOS Cell and Developmental Biology Program. Approximately half of the class sessions will consist of lectures and class discussions related to lecture material. The other half will consist of primary literature presentations by the students and class discussion pursuant to these. The course will provide students with a broad overview of essential signaling pathways and gene regulatory networks that coordinate cellular activities to establish and maintain the complex communities of cells that comprise animal tissues.