Textbook: Human Embryology and Developmental Biology, by Bruce M. Carlson. Any edition is OK.

The Biology 441 lab is NOT required for students taking the lecture course. It is a separate 1-hour course.
Syllabus for the lab [revised February 25]

Lecture notes, videos, review questions, and other material needed for exams will be posted on the web, linked to this syllabus page
(No password is required, and Sakai will not be used.)

exams and grading

a collection of short videos that have been shown during lectures

video recordings of last year's lectures

videos of 2014 lectures

links to web pages for the preceding ten years,
including sample exam questions: "review questions"

   

1) Mon. Jan 11	Mammal Embryology in Contrast with Sea Urchin Embryology. See 2016_videos.html for the videos of mammalian and sea urchin early divisions. lecture notes
2) Wed. Jan 13	Subdivision of Embryos Into Ectoderm, Mesoderm & Endoderm lecture notes
3) Fri. Jan 15	Embryology of Teleost Fish. Why are zebra-fish good "model organisms?; lecture notes
Mon. Jan 18	******* Holiday in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. ********
4) Wed. Jan 20	Embryology of Amphibians (salamanders & frogs). Advantages for Experiments; slides and links to videos.
5) Fri. Jan 22	Snow day. Should have been Embryonic Development of Birds, Reptiles & Mammals. Why so similar?
6) Mon. Jan 25	Snow day. Should have been Experimental Embryology, Regulation, Fate maps, In Situ Labeling
7) Wed. Jan 27	Catch-up lecture: morphogenetic movements, twinning, and some other topics. lecture notes
8) Fri. Jan 29	Experimental Embryology; lecture notes; some additional information about Dictyostelium was added to these notes Tuesday afternoon.
9) Mon. Feb. 1	Pattern Formation in Embryonic Development; lecture notes
	revised review questions More questions Don't panic: many of these questions are similar to ones that appeared in the earlier lists. This completes the list.
10) Wed. Feb. 3	Review for first examination
11) Fri. Feb. 5	First Examination
12) Mon. Feb 8	Easy Mathematics about Surface Curvatures, Tensions and Pressures; lecture notes; video discussed but not shown in class
13) Wed. Feb 10	continuation of Monday's topics
14) Fri. Feb 12	Symmetries of Causes Control Symmetries of Anatomical Shapes; lecture notes
15) Mon. Feb 15	snow day
16) Wed. Feb 17	More on symmetry, then start Reaction-Diffusion Systems: How Instabilities Create Geometric Patterns see 2016_videos.html for the cellular automata videos shown in class
17) Fri. Feb 19	Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Turing, and Liesegang Rings; lecture notes. updated Sunday 1:20 pm
18) Mon. Feb 22	Locomotion of Amoebae and Body Cells; lecture notes new material has been added for Wednesday's lecture
19) Wed. Feb 24	Review for Second Examination
	first set of review questions second set of review questions third set of review questions fourth (and last) set of review questions YOU CAN ALSO LOOK AT THE SAMPLE QUESTIONS FROM PAST YEAR'S LISTS, AND SEE HOW MANY OF THOSE YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS TO. questions on symmetry curvature, pressure, tension from 2015 curvature, pressure, tension from 2014 locomotion
20) Fri. Feb 26	Second Examination
21) Mon. Feb 29	Mesoderm Development, somite formation; lecture notes; links to some videos about somite formation; also see chapters 5 and 6 in the textbook
22) Wed. Mar 2	Mesoderm continued: kidney and heart; see notes for Monday's lecture
23) Fri. Mar 4	Cartilage and bone; lecture notes
24) Mon. Mar 7	Ectoderm; lecture notes
25) Wed. Mar 9	Ectoderm, continued
26) Fri. Mar 11	Eye-Brain Connection, and Other Neural Projections; lecture notes
	SPRING VACATION
27) Mon. Mar 21	Some more on Chemotaxis: video of temporal chemotaxis in ciliates video of haptotaxis in tissue culture cells then Teeth, followed by Endoderm; lecture notes
28) Wed. Mar 23	Extra-embryonic Membranes; lecture notes; a new illustration was added March 29th, 1:45 pm
Fri. Mar 25	GOOD FRIDAY HOLIDAY
29) Mon. Mar 28	Finish Endoderm; see notes for March 21
30) Wed. Mar 30	Review for third examination
	review questions
31) Fri. Apr 1	Third Examination
32) Mon. Apr 4	Electrical phenomena: blocks to polyspermy, galvanotaxis;lecture notes fertilization in a sea urchin video of cells aligning in a voltage gradient
33) Wed. Apr 6	Limb buds; please read Chapter 10 in the textbook; lecture notes
34) Fri. Apr 8	Regeneration, Especially of Salamander Limbs; lecture notes some notes on arteries
35) Mon. Apr 11	Sex Determination (In Mammals, in Comparison with Reptiles, Flies, Bees); lecture notes
36) Wed. Apr 13	Metamorphosis (Especially in Amphibians in Comparison with Insects) lecture notes
37) Fri. Apr 15	Aging in Relation to Development; lecture notes
	Labs are now over for the semester.
38) Mon. Apr 18	Autoimmune Diseases as Failure of the Tolerance Mechanism lecture notes Some new material was added to the notes Tuesday at 9:15 pm.
39) Wed. Apr 20	Cancer as Disruption in Embryological Mechanisms; lecture notes revised April 25, 11 am, to include links to videos shown in lectures
40) Fri. Apr 22	Cancer, continued; additional notes on cancer treatment
41) Mon. Apr 25	Stem Cells; lecture notes
42) Wed. Apr 27	Evolutionary Developmental Biology; lecture notes
	review questions for the last part of the course: first set of review questions Modified slightly Friday at 8:20 pm second set of review questions third set of review questions Modified Friday at 11 pm fourth set of review questions Saturday 6 pm: NO MORE QUESTIONS WILL BE POSTED. Dr. Harris will have office hours this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday beginning at about 11:00 am. Morning appointments can be scheduled if you need to see him but cannot come during these hours.
	FINAL EXAM: Thursday, May 5, at 8 AM