BIOL 4330 - Developmental Biology

3 hours

Mechanisms of development, differentiation and growth in animals at the molecular, cellular and genetic levels. Areas of particular emphasis include transcriptional control mechanisms, embryonic patterning, cell–cell interactions, growth factors and signal transduction, and regulatory hierarchies. Coverage also includes the roles that environmental factors play in development, the medical applications of our knowledge of development and the roles that development plays in evolution.

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1710/BIOL 1730 or BIOL 1711/BIOL 1733; BIOL 1720/BIOL 1740 or BIOL 1722/BIOL 1744; BIOL 2041/BIOL 2042 or BIOL 2140 or BIOL 2241 or BIOL 2251 or BIOL 2302/BIOL 2312; or consent of department.

May not be repeated at the graduate level as BIOL 5330.