Lecture notes, videos, review questions, and other material needed for exams will be posted on this web site throughout the semester.
Please check it frequently for updates.

The Biology 441L lab is NOT required for students taking the lecture course. It is a separate 1-hour course.    revised lab syllabus
Labs will begin on January 24-25.
 

exams and grading

1) Wed. Jan 10	Mammal Embryology in Contrast with Sea Urchin Embryology lecture notes
2) Friday Jan 12	Subdivision of Vertebrate Embryos into Ectoderm, Mesoderm & Endoderm lecture notes
Monday Jan 15	******* Holiday in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. ********
3) Wednesday Jan 17	snow day
4) Friday Jan 19	snow day
5) Monday Jan 22	Morphogenetic Movements and Shape Formation lecture notes
6) Wednesday Jan 24	Amoeboid locomotion, Electro-osmosis and Fluid-filled Spaces lecture notes
7) Friday Jan 26	Fish and Amphibian Embryology drawing of early development in vertebrate embryos lecture notes
8) Monday Jan 29	Embryology of Birds and Mammals; Extra-embryonic Membranes lecture notes
9) Wednesday Jan 31	Regulative vs. Mosaic Development, Experimental Embryology lecture notes
10) Friday Feb 2	Review for first examination, followed by office hours review questions
11) Monday Feb 5	First Examination
12) Wednesday Feb 7	Some Mathematical Concepts that Are Needed to Understand Shape Formation: Pressures, Surface Curvatures, and Tensions lecture notes
13) Friday Feb 9	How Do Physical Forces Cause the Shapes of Anatomical Structures? lecture notes continued from Wednesday
14) Monday Feb 12	Symmetries of Causes Control Symmetries of Anatomical Shapes lecture notes
15) Wednesday Feb 14	Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Instabilities that Create Geometric Patterns lecture notes
16) Friday Feb 16	Somites and Other Structures that Develop From Mesoderm lecture notes
17) Monday Feb 19	Ovaries and Testes; Primordial Germ Cells and Gamete Formation See the last part of the notes for Friday. Ectoderm: lecture notes A picture showing early neurulation was added to this page 2/25/18, 7 pm
18) Wednesday Feb 21	Retino-tectal projections: lecture notes
19) Friday Feb 23	Chemotaxis: lecture notes Stomodeum and Endoderm: lecture notes
20) Monday Feb 26	Review for Second Examination, followed by office hours first set of review questions second set
21) Wednesday Feb 28	Heart Development, Guest Lecture by Chris Cunningham The video links that were mentioned in the lecture: classic animation used in medical school teaching heart embryology animation using Claymation downloadable Powerpoint file
22) Friday Mar 2	Second Examination
23) Monday Mar 5	Sponge Aggregation and Cell Sorting lecture notes
24) Wednesday Mar 7	Lessons from the History of Cell Sorting; Beginning Limb Buds lecture notes
25) Friday Mar 9	Limb Buds lecture notes
	March 12-16 spring break
26) Monday Mar 19	Programmed Cell Death lecture notes
27) Wednesday Mar 21	More on Limb Buds, the Apical Epidermal Ridge, and Regeneration lecture notes
28) Friday Mar 23	Liesegang Rings   lecture notes Atherosclerosis   lecture notes a YouTube video on regeneration in axolotls
29) Monday Mar 26	Immunology, Allergies, and Autoimmune Diseases in Relation to Embryology lecture notes
30) Wednesday Mar 28	Immunology, continued
Friday March 30	******* Holiday ********
32) Monday Apr 2	More on Immunology
33) Wednesday Apr 4	Review for Third Examination first set of review questions second set of review questions third set of review questions YouTube video of chick embryo development (not required, but you might find it interesting)
34) Friday Apr 6	Third Examination
35) Monday Apr 9	Embryology of Plants lecture notes
36) Wednesday Apr 11	Resting Potentials, Fertilization, and Galvanotaxis lecture notes
36) Friday Apr 13	Continuation of Wednesday's topic, then begin metamorphosis lecture notes
37) Monday Apr 16	Metamorphosis lecture notes
38) Wednesday Apr 18	Aging lecture notes some links on cellular automata This was not covered and will not be on the final exam, but you might find the topic to be interesting. Some more links will be added eventually.
39) Friday Apr 20	Cancer
40) Monday Apr 23	Cancer, continued lecture notes [same information that was posted Friday, but re-ordered and lightly edited]
41) Wednesday Apr 25	Evolutionary Developmental Biology, the so-called "Evo-Devo" lecture notes
42) Friday Apr 27	Course Review lecture notes how to study for the final exam [edited 4/27 11:55 am] figure to study carefully
	FINAL EXAM: Monday, May 7, 8:00 am Office hours next week: 10 am to 3 pm, Monday through Thursday Final exam format and scope review questions, part one review questions, part two blank copy of first exam [Word doc] blank copy of second exam [Word doc] blank copy of third exam [Word doc]