Principles of Developmental Genetics

Section I: Emerging Technologies and Systems Biology 1. Untangling the Gordian knot: Cell signaling events that instruct development 2. RNA-seq and deep sequencing 3. Using mutagenesis in mice and zebrafish for developmental gene discovery 4. Chemical approaches to control stem cell fate 5. BMP signaling and stem cell self-renewal in the Drosophila ovary 6. Genomic Analyses of Neural Stem Cells 7. Chordate origins, stem cells and regeneration

Section II: Early Embryology and Morphogenesis 8. Dorsal-ventral axis patterning in insects 9. Building dimorphic forms: an examination of the genetic pathways that intersect embryonic patterning and sex determination 10. Anterior-Posterior patterning in mammals 11. Early development of epidermis and neural tissue 12. Taking the middle road: mesoderm induction and the blastula-gastrula transition 13. Endoderm induction 14. Epithelial branching: mechanisms of patterning and self-organization 15. Lateral line migration

Section III: Organogenesis 16. Neural cell fate determination 17. Retinal development 18. Neural crest determination 19. Determination of preplacodal ectoderm and sensory placodes 20. Olfactory development 21. Inner ear development 22. Molecular genetics of tooth development 23. Induction of the cardiac lineages 24. Blood vessel formation 25. Blood induction and embryonic formation 26. Vertebrate kidney formation: a comparative perspective 27. Development of the genital system 28. Skeletal development 29. Formation of vertebrate limbs 30. Patterning the embryonic endoderm into presumptive organ domains 31. Pancreas Development and Regeneration

Section IV: Selected Clinical Problems 32. Diaphragmatic embryogenesis and human congenital diaphragmatic defects 33. Genetic and developmental basis of congenital cardiovascular malformations 34. Multiple Roles of T-box genes 35. Craniofacial syndromes: etiology, impact and treatment 36. DeGeorge and related syndromes 37. Neural tube defects

Sally A. Moody is Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the George Washington University Medical Center, and a member of both the Neuroscience and Genetics programs. Prior to this appointment she was on the faculty of the Anatomy and Cell Biology Department, the Department of Neuroscience, and the Developmental Biology program at the University of Virginia. She trained in developmental neurobiology at the University of Florida's Department of Neuroscience and the University of Utah's Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy. Dr. Moody's current research focuses on the cascade of interactions that instruct lineages to give rise to the frog nervous system. She has taught developmental neurobiology in the MBL "Neurobiology" course and was co-director of the "Early Development of Xenopus Laevis" course at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She has also served on many National Institute of Health advisory committees dealing with issues in developmental biology and developmental neurobiology, and served on the Board of Trustees of the Society for Developmental Biology.

"...expert coverage of all major events in early embryogenesis and the organogenesis of specific systems, supplemented with representative clinical syndromes." --Anticancer Research