COURSE MODULES
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
COURSE CONTACTS
Mark De Caestecker 
Course Director
Lynda Anderson, Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant
Jon Lowery
Student Mentor
Emily Cross
Student Mentor
John Mackert
Student Mentor


 

Cancer and Embryonic Development meets every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in 3131 MRBIII.   We will have three graduate trainees and one postdoctoral fellow serving as teaching assistants and with their help will provide students with highly interactive, student-teacher environment.  This year, the course will be divided into 4 modules. 

The second module, Embryonal Tumors and Organogenesis, will be offered from Monday, February 9 through Friday, February 20, 2009.  Presentations and readings for each class follow.

To download the presentation from each class simply click on the title.  Clicking on a reading will either take you to the webpage for the full article or pdf download or allow you to download the publication directly (in cases where the information is not available on the web).

II. EMBRYONAL TUMORS AND ORGANOGENESIS
2/9/09 Mark deCaestecker Kidney development
Wnt/beta-catenin signaling regulates nephron induction during mouse kidney development.  2007 Development 134: 2533-2539
Supplemental Figures
2/11/09 Bo Lovvorn Wilm's tumors
Reading
An X Chromosome Gene, WTX, is commonly inactivated in Wilms Tumor. 
2007 Science 315: 642-645
2/13/09 Students Journal Club
2/16/09 Trish Labosky Neural crest cells and development
Prospective Identification, Isolation by Flow Cytometry, and In Vivo Self-Renewal of Multipotent Mammalian Neural Crest Stem Cells.  1999 Cell 96: 737-749
2/18/09 Elizabeth Yang Neuroblastoma
The kinesin KIF1B-beta acts downstream from Eg1N3 to induce apoptosis and is a potential 1p36 tumor suppressor.  2008 Genes & Development 22: 884-893
2/20/09 Students Journal Club
(For more information about CBIO320/CANB320 please contact
the Course Director or Course Assistants)

 

 

 

 

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