Final Course Schedule, Spring 2027
Lectures and conferences: WAB563
Student presentations will be via Zoom
Class meets: Mondays and Wednesdays from 2 pm - 4 pm
| 25-Jan-27 | Mon | Lecture | A tool box to tinker an embryo and the vertebrate game plan | Lassar |
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| 27-Jan-27 | Wed | Lecture | How positional information is established during gastrulation | Megason |
| 1-Feb-27 | Mon | Conference | Establishing positional information with in vitro models (and BMP/TGF-beta signaling recap) | Megason/Lassar |
| 3-Feb-27 | Wed | Lecture | Modeling early mammalian development in vitro | Morris |
| 8-Feb-27 | Mon | Lecture | Hox codes, anteroposterior axis specification and metamerization of the paraxial mesoderm | Pourquie |
| 10-Feb-27 | Wed | Conference | Hox codes and anteroposterior axis specification; in vivo and in vitro models. (Wnt signaling recap) | Lassar/Morris |
| 15-Feb-27 | Mon | President's Day! | ||
| 17-Feb-27 | Wed | Lecture | Guided migration: Axon development and regeneration | Flanagan |
| 22-Feb-27 | Mon | Lecture | Morphogens: wiring cell fate in the developing neural tube | Koehler |
| 24-Feb-27 | Wed | Conference | Neural patterning and regeneration | Lassar/Flanagan |
| 1-Mar-27 | Mon | Lecture | Cardiac development and disease models | Burns |
| 3-Mar-27 | Wed | Lecture | Vascular development | García-Cardeña |
| 8-Mar-27 | Mon | Conference | Vascular patterning and cardiac regeneration | García-Cardeña/Burns |
| 10-Mar-27 | Wed | Lecture | Dynamic interpretation of signals by cells: quantitative imaging | Megason |
| 15-Mar-27 | Mon | Spring Recess | ||
| 17-Mar-27 | Wed | Spring Recess |
| 22-Mar-27 | Mon | Conference | Quantitative modeling of developmental signaling in vitro | Megason/Koehler |
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| 24-Mar-27 | Wed | Lecture | Directed Differentiation of ES and iPS cells for regeneration and disease modeling | Koehler |
| 29-Mar-27 | Mon | Lecture | Neuromuscular development and disease models | Gupta |
| 31-Mar-27 | Wed | Lecture | Neural crest formation and gene regulatory networks | Simoes-Costa |
| 5-Apr-27 | Mon | Conference | In vitro and in vivo models to study role of neural crest function in disease or evolution | Simoes-Costa/Koehler |
| 7-Apr-27 | Wed | Conference | Skeletal muscle stem cells in aging and disease | Gupta/Lassar |
| 9-Apr-27 | Fri | 1st draft of reseach proposal due |
Students turn in first draft of your research proposal via e. mail to all faculty by 5pm, Friday April 9 |
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| 12-Apr-27 | Mon | Lecture | Biomechanical Regulation of Developmental Processes | García-Cardeña |
| 14-Apr-27 | Wed | Lecture | Cell fate determination within the adrenal cortex | Breault |
| 19-Apr-27 | Mon | Conference | Stem cells and epithelial organ development | Breault/Lassar |
| 21-Apr-27 | Wed | Lecture | Skeletal development and patterning | Lassar |
| 26-Apr-27 | Mon | Conference | Mechanosensing and organ development | García-Cardeña/Megason |
| 28-Apr-27 | Wed | Conference | Zen and the Art of Embryo Construction | Lassar and colleagues |
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| 10-May-27 | Mon | 2nd draft of research proposal due |
Students turn in final draft of your research proposal via e. mail to all faculty by 5pm, Monday May 10 |
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| 12-May-27 | Wed | Student presentations of their proposal via zoom | All Faculty |