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Spring 08 Students

The spring 2008 class will be using the third edition of the "Principles of Development" by Lewis Wolpert (3rd Ed.). This year, we will not be using a workbook for the class. Reading assignments, lecture slides and homework questions, which used to be in the workbook, is now be available for downloading on this website. Go to the Lecture link to obtain reading assignments and lecture slides, and go the Discussion link to obtain homework questions. You are responsible for downloading, studying, and completing the materials before attending lecture and discussion sections.

 

Here are the lectures from Nobel Prize winners Robert Hovitz (horvitz_lecture.pdf) and Andrew Fire (fire_lecture.pdf). You can download them by clicking on the highlighted links.

Here are a few URLs for the links page:

C.elegans movies: http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/goldstein/lab/movies.html

Worm book: http://www.wormbook.org

Nature milestones in development:

http://www.nature.com/milestones/development/milestones/index.html

Here is the study guide for exam1 (exam1_guide.pdf).

The mean for the exam1 is 73.7. The key for exam1 is online now (in Exams section).

Attention!-Instead of the lecture on Synaptogenesis, we will be having Exam 3 on Thursday, March 27, 2008

For Dr. Hing’s Exams cheat sheets will not be allowed.

NEW!-Homework#9 is cancelled. We still have the discussion in week of April 14.