No textbook is required.

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.   
lab syllabus  

exams and grading

1) Wed. Jan 9	Mammal Embryology in Contrast with Sea Urchin Embryology lecture notes
2) Friday Jan 11	Subdivision of Vertebrate Embryos into Ectoderm, Mesoderm & Endoderm lecture notes
3) Monday Jan 14	Morphogenetic Movements and Shape Formation lecture notes
4) Wednesday Jan 16	Amoeboid locomotion, Electro-osmosis and Fluid-filled Spaces lecture notes
5) Friday Jan 18	Gastrulation and Extra-Embryonic Membranes lecture notes
Monday Jan 21	******* Holiday in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. ********
6) Wednesday Jan 23	Embryology of Teleost Fish lecture notes
7) Friday Jan 25	Embryonic Development of Amphibians, Birds, Reptiles & Mammals lecture notes
8) Monday Jan 28	More on Regulative vs. Mosaic Development, and Experimental Embryology lecture notes
9) Wednesday Jan 30	This lecture was cancelled. Friday's class and the exam on Monday will be held as scheduled. Labortories this week will be also be held as usual.
10) Friday Feb 1	Review for first examination, followed by office hours review questions These questions are from last year, but we've covered nearly all the same material this year. Please feel free to ask if you're uncertain about any questions.
11) Monday Feb 4	First Examination
12) Wednesday Feb 6	Mesoderm: Somites and Kidneys lecture notes
13) Friday Feb 8	Ectoderm lecture notes
14) Monday Feb 11	How Do Physical Forces Cause the Shapes of Anatomical Structures? lecture notes
15) Wednesday Feb 13	Symmetries of Causes Control Symmetries of Anatomical Shapes lecture notes
16) Friday Feb 15	Breaking Symmetry; Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Instabilities that Create Geometric Patterns lecture notes
17) Monday Feb 18	Chemotaxis, and Embryology of the Eye; Retino-tectal Projections lecture notes on chemotaxis lecture notes on eye development
18) Wednesday Feb 20	Continuation of retino-tectal connections, discussion of the Watanabe and Kondo paper, and other topics lecture notes
19) Friday Feb 22	Snakes, Gradients, and Heart Development lecture notes on the heart
20) Monday Feb 25	Endoderm, and start review for second exam lecture notes Optional video: time lapse of salamander development, and some amphibian pictures (thanks to student Emily Mercer for sharing this link)
21) Wednesday Feb 27	Review for Second Examination Review of origins of tissues and structures Study Questions Statement about figures Lots more study questions; Figures to identify
22) Friday Mar 1	Second Examination
23) Monday Mar 4	Limb Buds lecture notes
24) Wednesday Mar 6	Regeneration lecture notes
25) Friday Mar 8	Cell Sorting lecture notes
	March 11-15 spring break
26) Monday Mar 18	Liesegang Rings: Geometrical Patterns Formed by Chemical Reactions lecture notes This will be the topic of the Biol_441L lab this week. Please read the notes and watch the videos before your lab session. More on Cell Sorting lecture notes
27) Wednesday Mar 20	Continuing Discussion of Programmed Cell Death lecture notes, with some added review questions
28) Friday Mar 22	Immunology, Allergies, and Autoimmune Diseases in Relation to Embryology lecture notes
29) Monday Mar 25	Immunology, notes continued from Friday more information on multiple sclerosis
30) Wednesday Mar 27	Formation of Blood Vessels; Atherosclerosis lecture notes
31) Friday March 29	Resting Potentials, Fertilization, and Galvanotaxis lecture notes
32) Monday Apr 1	Embryology of Plants lecture notes This topic will NOT be included in the hour exam on Friday.
33) Wednesday Apr 3	Review for Third Examination first set of review questions second set of review questions third set of review questions fourth set of review questions fifth set of review questions
34) Friday Apr 5	Third Examination
35) Monday Apr 8	Plants, continued; then Metamorphosis lecture notes on metamorphosis
36) Wednesday Apr 10	Aging lecture notes
37) Friday Apr 12	Cancer as Disruption of Embryological Mechanisms lecture notes
38) Monday Apr 15	Cancer, continued
39) Wednesday Apr 17	Evolutionary Developmental Biology, the so-called "Evo-Devo" lecture notes
Wednesday and Thursday, April 17-18	tissue culture pictures for those of you taking the lab
40) Monday Apr 22	Evo-Devo continued, more on Hox genes Hox Genes lecture notes Sex Determination lecture notes
41) Wednesday Apr 24	Future Medical Applications of Some Embryological Phenomena lecture notes
42) Friday Apr 26	Concluding Thoughts: Review of How Development Works lecture notes Office hours next week: Dr. Harris will be in his office every day next week (April 29 - May 3) from about 11:00 am to 3:00 pm.
	FINAL EXAM: Monday, May 6, 8:00 am The final exam will be cumulative, covering topics in the entire course, but with somewhat more emphasis on the material since the last exam. Key points for general review of the course Review questions for the last part of the course More questions may be posted.