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3. Train themselves and apply what they learn to their own research.
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Teaching Methods and Innovations
课堂讲授时注意引导学生就重要生物学现象展开讨论,从中发掘归纳出生物学问题,并寻找相应的
解决问题的思路和方法,比较在不同实验技术背景下研究思路的差异。鼓励学生积极提出自己的想法,
不要轻易接受一种现成的理论。学生们将选择经典的科学问题,就最新进展做口头报告。
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Course Contents and Course Schedule
Lecture 1. History and basic concepts
1.1The origins of developmental biology
1.2 A conceptual tool kit
Lecture 2. Development of the Drosophila body plan
2.1 Drosophila life cycle and overall development
2.2 Setting up the body axes
2.3 Localization of maternal determinants during oogenesis
2.4 Patterning the early embryo
2.5 Activation of the pair-rule genes and the establishment of parasegments
2.6 Segmentation genes and compartments
2.7 Specification of segment identity
Lecture 3. Development of C. elganss
3.1 Life cycle.
3.2 Hermaphrodite and male.
3.3 History. Sydney Brenner chose it to study how genes specify highr organisms.
3.4 Complete cell lineage is known.
3.5 The structure of the nervous system is known at electronic microscope level.
3.6 RNAi. the impact of the highly improbable.
3.7 Asymmetric cell divison. P granules.