Developmental Biology Lab Schedule: Spring 2003
Lab meets Tuesday and Wednesday Afternoons 1:10-4 p.m. Room 122 (Class is divided into 2 lab groups)
(NB: Some experiments will require additional lab time on subsequent days in order to make observations of your developing embryos. Please plan accordingly.)
Class Materials: Each week you should bring with you to lab
Print-Outs of Lab Instructions
Highly Recommended Text for Laboratory:
Jan. 28 & 29. Getting Organized and Microscopic Study of Gametogenesis.
Feb. 4 & 5. and weeks following
Feb. 11-Feb 26. Development of Amphibian Embryos
Feb. 25 & 26. Development of Behavior in Amphibian Embros (con't)
March 4 & 5. Transforming 3 Flat Germ Layers into a Tubular Body Plan
(No Labs week of March 10-15: BMC Spring Break)
Mar 18 &19. Chick Embryo Development
March 25 & 26. Totipotency of Chick Embryo Blastoderm
April 8 & 9. In Class LAB EXAM based on Study of Prepared Slides
April 22 & 23. Drosophila Segmentation Genes II
April 29 & 30. Film: The Miracle of Life, and Lab Clean-Up
This page was posted 31 January 2003; Revised 13 April 2003
Laboratory Studies of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Embryos, 8th ed. Gary C. Schoenwolf. Prentice Hall, Inc., Publisher. 2001.
Bring $5 for key deposit.
You will continue to observe these embryos in the weeks to come, and when they are older, observe development of motor behavior and responses to sensory stimuli. You are free to use The Development of Behavior Patterns (taken from A Manual of Experimental Embryology by Viktor Hamburger. University of Chicago Press, pub. 1960) to guide your experimental design.
Feb. 18 & 19. Development of Amphibian Embryos (con't)
SATURDAY MARCH 1: Field Trip to the Mutter Museum, Philadelphia
Written Lab Report on Behavior Development: Due Date Friday Mar 7 (before you leave for Spring Break).
Print a copy of the Hamburger and Hamilton Staging Series. You will need it for the next 2-3 weeks.
Bring Schoenwolf book if you have one. Additional Figures for slide study
This lab has been modeled on a experiments done by Nelson T. Spratt, Jr. and Hermann Haas. Excerpts of one of their papers [Spratt, N.T., Jr. and H. Haas (1960) Integrative mechanisms in development of the early chick blastoderm. I. Regulative potency of separated parts. J. Exp. Zoology 145:97-137] describing this work is available as a PDF File.
April 1 & 2. Chick Embryo Labs, con'tWritten Lab Report on Totipotency lab: Due Date Friday April 11, 5 pm
April 15 & 16. Drosophila Segmentation Genes I.