Developmental Biology

Michael J. F. Barresi is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Smith College. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology and the Sherrerd prize for distinguished teaching from Smith College. Michael has pioneered the use of a variety of technologies to engage students and faculty in novel ways with the concepts of developmental biology as well as with researchers making discoveriesin this field.Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology (emeritus) at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor (emeritus) at the University of Helsinki. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology as well as the Alexander Kowalevsky Award in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

• 1. The Making of Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology 2. Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning 3. Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentation4. Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation5. Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches 6. Sex Determination and Gametogenesis7. Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism 8. Conceptualizing Early Development: Essential Processes 9. Snails, Flowers and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patterns of Specification10. The Genetics of Axis Specification Drosophila 11. Sea Urchins and Tunicates 12. Amphibians and Fish 13. Birds and Mammals 14. Early Human Development 15. Neural Tube Formation and Patterning 16. Brain Growth 17. Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity 18. Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis 19. Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives20. Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys 21. Development of the Tatrapod Limb 22. The Endoderm: Tubes and organs for Digestion and Respiration 23. Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development 24. Regeneration 25. The Environmental and Symbiotic Regulation of Development 26. Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

This text is the gold standard, using the foundation of the Scott Gilbert text. Barresi works hard to keep the topics current, and provides many online, resources to supplement the text that the students very much appreciate and even enjoy." - Crystal Ivie, Boise Statte University