Focuses on development of fruit files, nematodes, and mice. Emphasizes embryological processes including induction, determination, pattern formation. Relationship between development and evolution. Technologies include transgenic animals, genetics, mosaic analysis, homologous recombination, somatic cell genetics, embryonic manipulations. Emphasis on the unique aspects of the viral-like cycles as they relate to effects on infected cells and organisms.
Guest lecturers focus on viral immunology, measles.
Introduction to the methods of structural biology, with emphasis on how to read and assess a structural paper. Extensive, interactive computer modeling and graphics tutorials. Cooper, Moon Supervised research in a biotechnology company. Regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation in normal tissues. Protooncogenes and oncogenes.