First Year Notes - Developmental Biology

Lecture Outlines

[RC] [NK] Lec 01 (11-14 A) was the course overview

[RC] [NK] Lec 02 (11-14 B) was a short, general overview of embryology

[RC] [NK] Lec 03 (11-14 C) - Fertilization through Implantation

[RC] [NK] Lec 04 (11-15 A) - Embryonic Manipulations

[RC] [NK] Lec 05 (11-15 B) - Principles of Development

[RC] [NK] Lec 05a (11-15) was a short "Introduction to Patterning"

[RC] [NK] Lec 06 (11-15 C) - Patterning a Simple System I

[RC] [NK] Lec 07 (11-18 A) - Patterning a Simple System II

[RC] [NK] Lec 08 (11-18 B) - Gastrulation, Organogenesis, and Embryonic Folds

[RC] [NK] Lec 09 (11-18 C) - Vertebrate Patterning

[RC] [NK] Lec 10 (11-19 A) - Central Nervous System

[RC] [NK] Lec 11 (11-20 A) - Muscle Development

[RC] [NK] Lec 12 (11-20 B) - Bone Development

[RC] [NK] Lec 13 (11-20 A) - Limb Development

[RC] [NK] Lec 14 (11-20 B) - Neural Crest Cells

[RC] [NK] Lec 15 (11-21 A) - Special Senses, Eye, Ear, and Nose

[RC] [NK] Lec 16 (11-21 B) - Vasculogenesis, Angiogenesis, Hematopoiesis

[RC] [NK] Lec 17 (11-21 C) - Heart Development

[RC] [NK] Lec 18 (11-25 A) - Kidney Development

[RC] [NK] Lec 19 (11-25 B) - Sex Determination and Differentiation

[RC] [NK] Lec 20 (11-26 A) - Gut Development

RC = Outlines by Raymond Cheong, NK = Outlines by Nirav Kapadia

Special thanks to Lai-Hock Tay for pointing out many errors in RC's outlines, which have been corrected

Some abbreviations used above:

A,P,D,V,L,R: anterior, posterior, dorsal, ventral, left, right
diffn: differentiation
expr: expression or expressed
meso.: mesoderm
txn: transcription

General Links

More study aids

List of Genes (By Laura DeLong and Mark Seidner)

List of Genes (Thanks to Roger Ho)

Annotated List of Genes (By Nicole Redmond and other Class of 2008 Group 7 members, Andre Kydd, and Nevine Ali)

Table of genes (By Giannina Ambrossi)

List of Diseases (By Raymond Cheong, careful: this document was prepared hastily)

Terms from embryology (By David Liu)

Useful websites

Embryo Images (Prochordal plate is mislabeled as prechordal plate)

Human Embryology

Embryological Development of the Human

Visible Embryo

Bill Wasserman’s Developmental Biology Page

First three weeks of human embryo

Zebrafish Development (Thanks to Leilani Sharpe)

Embryo Implantation movie (Thanks to Leilani Sharpe)

Primitive Streak movie (Thanks to Leilani Sharpe)

Human Embryonic Development movies (Thanks to Leilani Sharpe)

Tour of Human Embryo Development (Thanks to Delphine Robotham)

Embryo and fetal development documentary by NOVA (Thanks to Leilani Sharpe)

Human embryology animations (Thanks to Ross McMillan)

Standard Disclaimer

All documents posted herein that are not otherwise credited are authored by Raymond Cheong, Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved. Outlines and other review materials not guaranteed to be error-free; consult course notes as needed; you may find it more useful to make an outline of your own; inform me if you find any errors so I can correct these outlines.