Zebrafish embryonic stages, advantages as a model organism, candidate gene mapping, use in imaging - drug testing, nervous system development, immune system - Summary of the lecture

Sea urchin regulatory programme - negative feedback loops, autonomous specification of PMCs and experimental data that support the findings - extra reading with sources cited

Sea Urchin Embryogenesis - from cleavage to tissue differentiation, covering the generation of PMCs in extensive detail (Extra reading with sources cited)

Theories of ageing with a connection to development - part of the BIOL2010 lectures with extra reading

Xenopus specification of cell fates - genetic and cellular mechanisms from the lecture with extra reading

Xenopus mesoderm formation and the various genetic signals - whole lecture covered with extra reading from textbooks and papers

Covers early mouse embryonic development - formation of the blastocyst, gene regulatory network and cellular mechanisms producing the trophoblast, endoderm and ICM. Extra reading with sources cited.

Lecture covering the embryonic development of development - from cleavage, gastrulation to neurulation. Cell fate maps and specific developmental genes discussed. Combining lecture notes and textbook reading (sources cited).

Covering the different types of Hox genes, how they function, with examples for each category. Extra reading with sources cited.