Developmental Biology
Lecture 1: Introduction to development as a transition
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Required Reading: approaches to developmental biology, A World Beyond Physics (Stuart Kauffman (Chapter 3, pages 33-40)
Extra reading (and viewing): A World Beyond Physics (Stuart Kauffman (Chapter 1), historiography of developmental biology, Nick Lane's paper on iron sulfur clusters


Lecture 2: evolutionary developmental biology
Slides
Required reading: Gilbert's chapter on evo-devo
Extra reading (and viewing): The extended evolutionary synthesis; Wallace Arthur's classification


Lecture 3: vertebrate development
Slides
Required reading: xenopus gastrulation (from Wolpert)
Extra reading (and viewing): gastrulating xenopus video; ostwald ripening; blastocyst and ripening: a recent paper

Lecture 4 and 5: limb development 
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Required reading: Gilbert's treatment of limb development
Extra reading and viewing: District9

Lecture 6 and 7: invertebrate development
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Required reading: AP axis specification, 
Gilbert's book relevant section