Module 1: Microscopy, Echinoderms, Tunicates and Other Basal Deuterostomes (June 2 - June 9)
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Sunday, June 2
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7:00 pm Reception & Dinner – 2nd Floor Loeb (room #256)
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Tatjana Piotrowski, (Stowers); Athula Wikramanayake, (Univ. Miami), Welcome and Course overview. Bring your posters |
Monday, June 3
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Morning Lecture
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Tatjana Piotrowski, (Stowers Institute) and Athula Wikramanayake, (Univ. Miami), Intro to Embryology Course and Developmental Biology and metazoan body plans
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Afternoon lab (1PM)
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Marine Resource Center tour and tour of Loeb. (1-3PM) Jon Henry, (MBL), Zak Swartz (MBL), Margherita Perillo (MBL), Athula Wikramanayake (UMiami), Tool making & microinjection (use echinoderms to practice microinjections) (3-6PM)
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Evening lab (7:30PM) |
Continue tool making & microinjection
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Tuesday, June 4
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Morning lecture
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Lisa Cameron, (Duke U.), Michelle Itano, (UNC Chapel Hill), Paula Montero Llopis (Harvard), Light and confocal microscopy
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Afternoon lab (1pm)
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Lisa Cameron, (Duke U.), Michelle Itano, (UNC Chapel Hill), Paula Montero Llopis (Harvard), Light and confocal microscopy
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Evening lab (7:30pm)
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Lisa Cameron, (Duke U.), Michelle Itano, (UNC Chapel Hill), Paula Montero Llopis (Harvard), Light and confocal microscopy
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Wednesday, June 5
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Morning lecture
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Athula Wikramanayake, (Univ. Miami), Introduction to echinoderms and early patterning Veronica Hinman, (Carnegie Mellon), Gene regulatory network analysis and GRN evolution
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Echinoderms
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Thursday June 6
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Morning lecture
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Zak Swartz, (MBL), Lessons from sea stars: reproduction and early development in a changing ocean Margherita Perillo, (MBL), Sea stars and sea cucumbers as models for organogenesis
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1:00 - 1:30pm
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HCR technology seminar fish bowl
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Echinoderms
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Dinner & Discussion at Swope
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Athula Wikramanayake, (Univ. Miami) and Tatjana Piotrowski, (Stowers Institute), Ethics Discussion- authorship and navigating mentor/mentee relationships
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Friday, June 7
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Morning lecture
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Bob Zeller, (San Diego State Univ.), Introduction to ascidian development - sea squirts made easy; Ed Munro, (Univ. Chicago), Dynamics of morphogenesis in ascidians
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Afternoon & Evening labs
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Ascidians (echinoderms)
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Saturday, June 8
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Morning lecture
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Lionel Christiaen (Sars Centre, Norway, NYU). Regulation of multipotency and cell fate choices in the cardiopharyngeal lineage of Ciona
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Afternoon evening labs
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Echinoderms and ascidians
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Sunday, June 9
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7pm
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Scavenger hunt and course dinner
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Things to do this week: T-shirt design for class, softball t-shirt, parade committee
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Module 2: Nematodes, Tardigrades, Planaria, Acoels (June 10 - 15)
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Monday, June 10
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Morning lecture (9-11am)
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Dave Sherwood, (Duke), C. elegans introduction & cell-matrix interactions
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Afternoon & evening labs
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C. elegans
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Tuesday, June 11
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Morning lectures
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Dan Dickinson (UT Austin), Establishing cell polarity Geraldine Seydoux, (Johns Hopkins/ HHMI), C. elegans early development
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1:30pm
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Library Tour
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Afternoon lab
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C. elegans
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Wednesday, June 12
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Morning lectures
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Bob Goldstein, (UNC Chapel Hill), Tardigrades. Meryl Rose lecture.
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Afternoon & Evening labs
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Tardigrades (C. elegans)
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Thursday, June 13
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Morning lecture
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Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, (Stowers Inst.), Planaria & regeneration
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Afternoon & evening lab
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Planaria (C. elegans, tardigrades)
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Friday, June 14
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Morning lecture
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Mansi Srivastava, (Harvard), Acoel development & regeneration
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Acoels (C. elegans, planaria, tardigrades)
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Saturday, June 15
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Morning concepts discussion
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Athula Wikramanayake, (Univ. Miami) and Tatjana Piotrowski, (Stowers Institute)
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Afternoon & Evening Labs
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C. elegans, acoels, planaria, tardigrades
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Class presentations (9pm)
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Show ‘n Tell 1 / lab clean up
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Sunday, June 16
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Free Time
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Module 3: Arthropods & Spiralians (June 17 - June 22)
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Monday, June 17
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Morning lecture
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Nipam Patel, (Univ. Chicago/MBL), Drosophila embryogenesis; Melanie Worley, (UVA) postembryonic development.
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Arthropods
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Tuesday, June 18
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Morning lecture
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Nipam Patel, (Univ. Chicago/MBL), Evo-devo arthropod body plans, Parhyale; Melanie Worley, (UVA), Imaginal disk regeneration
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Afternoon & Evening labs
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Arthropods
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Wednesday, June 19
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Morning lecture
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Lesley Weaver (Indiana University), Drosophila as a model to understand inter-organ communication; Heather Bruce (University of Chicago/MBL), Arthropod legs: novelty and homology over half a billion years.
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Arthropods
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Thursday, June 20
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Morning lectures
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Anyi Mazo-Vargas (Duke U.), Diving into butterfly wing patterning: Understanding genomic organization and signals driving diversity; Mike Perry (UCSD), The insect visual system as a model for neural development and evolution
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Afternoon & Evening Labs
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Arthropods
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Friday, June 21
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Morning lecture
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Jon Henry, (MBL), Spiralians, Dede Lyons, (SIO), Nudibranchs as models for neurogenesis, and regeneration.
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Spiralians (arthropods)
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Dinner ethics discussion
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Athula Wikramanayake, (Univ. Miami) and Tatjana Piotrowski, (Stowers Institute).
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Saturday, June 22
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Morning lecture
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Ehab Abouheif (McGill), Ants: nature’s ultimate superorganism
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Arthropods and Spiralians
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Sunday, June 23
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Morning and Afternoon
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Free Time
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Evening lecture (8pm)
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Zebrafish orientation
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Module 4: Fish and Frogs (June 24 - June 29) (Please note that there will be morning and evening labs, and afternoon lectures this week)
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Monday, June 24
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Morning lab (9am)
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Zebrafish
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Afternoon lecture (1pm)
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Elke Ober, (FAU Erlangen, Germany), Endoderm development
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Evening lab (7:30-8:30pm)
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Zebrafish / frog lab intro
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Tuesday, June 25
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Morning lab
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Zebrafish, Frogs
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Afternoon lectures (1:30-3:30pm)
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John Wallingford (Univ. of Texas, Austin), Introduction to Xenopus development and The structure and function of the motile cilium interactome
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Evening lab
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Zebrafish, Frogs
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Wednesday, June 26
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Morning lab
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Zebrafish, Frogs
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Afternoon lecture
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Tatjana Piotrowski, (Stowers Institute), Zebrafish sensory lateral line development/regeneration Marina Venero-Galanternik (University of Utah). Zebrafish meningeal development
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Evening lab
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Frogs, Zebrafish
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Thursday, June 27
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Morning lab
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Frogs, Zebrafish
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Afternoon lecture
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Andrea Wills, (Univ. Washington), regeneration in Xenopus; Shinuo Weng (Johns Hopkins University), May the Force Be with Frogs: From the Bottom Up
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Evening lab
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Frogs, Zebrafish
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Friday, June 28
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Morning lab
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Frogs, Zebrafish
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Afternoon lecture
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Michel Bagnat (Duke), Guided and self-organized morphogenesis of the vertebrate anteroposterior axis Andrew Gillis, (MBL) Skate development and evolution of limbs.
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Evening lab
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Zebrafish, Frogs, Skates
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Saturday, June 29
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Morning lab
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Zebrafish, Frogs, Skates
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Afternoon lecture (1:30pm)
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Yukiko Yamashita, Learning heredity and evolution through the lens of Drosophila spermatogenesis, (Katsuma and Jean Dan lecture).
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Evening lab
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Zebrafish, Skates, Frogs
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Class presentations (9pm)
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Show ‘n Tell 2; lab clean up
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Sunday, June 30
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Whale watching trip to Hyannis
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Module 5: Chicks & Mouse (July 1 - July 6)
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Monday, July 1
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Morning lecture (9-11am)
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Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, (Stowers Institute), Introduction to chick development
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Chick
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Tuesday, July 2
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Morning lecture
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Richard Behringer (MD Anderson). Introduction to mouse development and vertebrate reproductive organ development.
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Afternoon & Evening labs
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Mouse (chick)
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Wednesday, July 3
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Morning lecture
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Peter Lwigale (Rice University), Neural crest cells in corneal development
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Chick and mouse
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Thursday, July 4
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July 4th Parade
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Free time, parade. Course barbeque and fireworks
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Friday, July 5
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Morning lecture
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Ondine Cleaver (UTSW), Introduction to mouse development and development of the vascular system
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Chick and mouse
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Saturday, July 6
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Morning lecture
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Cliff Tabin (Harvard Medical School). How is the differential folding of the gut epithelium achieved; How did birds evolve the capacity to vocalize?
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Afternoon labs
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Chick and mouse
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Evening
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Softball Game
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Sunday, July 7
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Free time
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Module 6: Cephalopods, Cnidarians, Ctenophores, Annelids (July 8 - 13)
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Monday, July 8
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Morning lecture
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Carrie Albertin (MBL) Introduction to cephalopod development
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Cephalopods
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Tuesday, July 9
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Morning lectures
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Leslie Babonis (Cornell), Cnidarian development; Celina Juliano (UC Davis), Introduction to Hydra
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Cnidarians (cephalopods)
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Wednesday, July 10
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Morning lectures
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Neva Meyer (Clark University), Annelids, nervous system evolution; Elaine Seaver (Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience) Embryology and regeneration: an annelid perspective
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Annelids (cnidarians, cephalopods)
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Thursday, July 11
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Morning lectures
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Josh Rosenthal (MBL), Rewriting genetic information in the brains of cephalopods by editing mRNAs (Kessel lecture); Bill Browne (Univ. Miami.), Ctenophore development and evolution
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Afternoon & evening labs
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Ctenophores (cnidarians, annelids, cephalopods)
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Friday, July 12
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Morning lecture
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Blanche Capel (Saunders lecture), Sex Determination with and without Sex Chromosomes
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Afternoon & Evening labs
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Cnidarians (ctenophores, annelids, cephalopods)
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Saturday, July 13
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Morning lecture
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Celina Juliano (UC Davis), Hydra regeneration (Rafferty lecture), Phil Cleves (Carnegie Science), Cnidarian-algal endosymbiosis
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Afternoon labs
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Cnidarians, ctenophores, annelids, cephalopods
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Class presentations (9pm)
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Show ‘n Tell 3
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Sunday, July 14
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Morning discussion
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Athula Wikramanayake, (Univ. Miami) and Tatjana Piotrowski (Stowers Institute)
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Afternoon lab
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Lab clean-up
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Evening (7:30pm)
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Course banquet and award ceremony
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