Monday, January 22, 2001
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Lecture Hall D1.502
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

This program will explore the topic of Developmental Biology.  


Speakers  

Are Two Brains Better Than None?
Jonathan Graff, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in the Center for Developmental Biology 
 
Lessons from the Genetically Altered Mouse
Jim Richardson, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
 

A light meal will be served before the evening's program.  A certificate of completion will be provided for purposes of professional development credit. Please check with your school district to determine if credit will be accepted for this event.

Related Links, Classroom Activities and Articles


1) NOVA: Odyssey of Life - Read about How Did We Get Here: A Cyber Debate , watch Morphing human, pig, chicken, and fish Embryos, and learn about one of the first people to capture the image of an embryo and the AIDS Virus in Behind the Lens: An Interview with Lennart Nilsson. Look up new lesson ideas and support material for NOVA programs.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/odyssey/

2) Scientific American: Visualizing Human Embryos - a technique called magnetic resonance microscopy is revealing the secrets of early human development. See illustrations and animations from this procedure. http://www.sciam.com/1999/0399issue/0399smith.html

3) The Virtual Embryo- an indeterminate, continuously developing course in developmental biology, plus valuable resources for reviewing development and accessing the developmental biology literature. http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/virtualembryo/

4) Visible Embryo - a comprehensive resource of information on human development from conception to birth, designed for both medical students and interested lay people. http://www.visembryo.com/

5) Web Directory: Developmental Biology - WWW Virtual Library is a great resource to search for information on Developmental Biology and find websites to supplement information. http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/Other/VL_DB.html

6) Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo - a three-dimensional image reference of the human embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging, for those interested in studying and teaching human development. http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/

7) Detectives at the Dawn of Life - article on research in birth defects that begin very early in the development of an embryo, by Kit Carlson. http://www.ornl.gov/ornl93/detectives.html

8) Developmental Biology Cinema: See QuickTime playings of Thom Kaufman's FLY MORPH-O-GENESIS, Lionel Jaffe's Calcium Tsunami, Jeff Miller's Dynamics of Thin Filopodia, and Nicole Le Douarin's Quail-Chick Chimeras  http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/dbcinema/

9) The Society for Developmental Biology: This Education section of the Society for Developmental Biology Website is where they post information related to teaching and learning about developmental biology for K-college teachers and students. It serves as an educational resource for everyone interested in developmental biology. http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/SDBEduca/index.html

10) Developmental Biology Research in Space: Anticipating the International Space Station This submitted report is about the Recommendations from the September, 1999 Developmental Biology Workshop sponsored by the International Space Life Sciences Working Group in Woods Hole, MA. http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/SDBNews/index.html

11) Read about what is going on at the political level of stem cell research.

HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH - WHERE DOES IT STAND NOW? http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/SDBNews/focus/stem_cell_899.html

Update on Human Pluripotent Embryonic Stem Cell Research http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/SDBNews/focus/stem_cell_article.html

12) Embryo Images Online - tutorial uses canning electron micrographs (SEMs) to teach mammalian embryology.  http://www.med.unc.edu/embryo_images/

13) Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection: This site has images of plants (including plant embryos), both whole views and in section at various magnifications, for instructional use. http://images.botany.org/

14) Sea Urchin Embryology: This site presents a set of laboratory modules that use sea urchins to demonstrate fertilization and early development. Developed for use in courses for high school, junior college, or lower division college biology labs, the site presents comprehensive resources including lab exercises, overheads and handouts, and extra information for the instructor. http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin

15) Mark Hill's Embryology Resource of concepts in embryological development that covers early development, systematic development, developmental abnormalites and molecular mechanisms. Resources include Carnegie stage 13/14 and stage 22 embryos cut in serial section, the human Carnegie stages, brief introductory descriptions, OMIM database refs and links to related www resources. http://anatomy.med.unsw.edu.au/cbl/embryo/Embryo.htm

16) Human Embryological Modelling, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Home of the British Universities Human Embryo Database, as well as, useful information about 3D reconstruction of sections of human embryos; there are examples of many anatomical and embryological projects using digital media, including downloadable examples of animations and software. http://embryos.st-andrews.ac.uk/default.htm

17) Wadsworth's Wonderful Worms: This is a research laboratory studying developmental neurobiology and the extracellular matrix. The nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, is used as a model animal for genetic and molecular biology studies. The site includes self-scoring quizes, worm cartoons, and animations for java enabled browsers.  http://rigel.umdnj.edu/Default.html

18) Bill Wasserman's Developmental Biology Page: The Developmental Biology Page contains links to Web sites for Drosophila, amphibian, zebrafish, C. elegans, sea urchin and Arabidopsis development. There are also several movies and animations of developmental processes. http://www.luc.edu/depts/biology/dev.htm

19) Women in Developmental Biology: This page is a contribution to the resources currently available on the WWW for individuals interested in the history of women in science. http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/w/womens-studies/www/dev-bio/

20) Amphibian Embryology Tutorial Jeff Hardin at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, built and maintains this tutorial to supplement his in-class instruction and textbook resources. It's a great site for undergraduates studying amphibian development--lots of graphics and movies. http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/frogs/welcome.html

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