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Molecular Genetics and Development BIO00052I 15
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- To give an overview of genomic imprinting, when it is initiated and how imprinting disorders can arise
- Describe key events in X-inactivation including the role of the Xist non-coding RNA
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The University of York•Molecular Genetics and Development
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith• ISBN 9780198800569
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- To give an overview of genomic imprinting, when it is initiated and how imprinting disorders can arise
- Describe key events in X-inactivation including the role of the Xist non-coding RNA
- Discuss the evidence for the nodal morphogen acting during mesoderm induction.
- Discuss the concept of the vertebrate dorsal organiser.
- Discuss the evidence that the brachyury transcription factor is a conserved regulator of germ layer specification.
- Draw conclusions regarding the molecular pathways regulating development of Urbilateria.
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith• ISBN 9780198800569
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- Discuss the evidence for the nodal morphogen acting during mesoderm induction.
- Discuss the concept of the vertebrate dorsal organiser.
- Discuss the evidence that the brachyury transcription factor is a conserved regulator of germ layer specification.
- Draw conclusions regarding the molecular pathways regulating development of Urbilateria.
- Provide an overview of the polycomb and trithorax group complexes and their activities
- Describe evidence that indicates stem cell chromatin is in an open ‘permissive’ state
- Understand what is bivalent chromatin and why it may be important for stem cell biology and development
- Understand the steps of chromatin immunoprecipitation and why it is a useful technique in epigenetic studies
- Describe the Nodal signalling example and experimental approach, and understand how it illustrates ...
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith• ISBN 9780198800569
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- Provide an overview of the polycomb and trithorax group complexes and their activities
- Describe evidence that indicates stem cell chromatin is in an open ‘permissive’ state
- Understand what is bivalent chromatin and why it may be important for stem cell biology and development
- Understand the steps of chromatin immunoprecipitation and why it is a useful technique in epigenetic studies
- Describe the Nodal signalling example and experimental approach, and understand how it illustrates ...
- Describe experiments that defined compartments of cell lineage restriction.
- Define a compartment and describe the evidence showing that the parasegment is a compartment and the developmentally important unit of the fly.
- Describe genetic experiments demonstrating that HOM-C genes regulate parasegment identity in Drosophila.
- Evaluate whether the vertebrate Hox genes share a conserved function with Drosophila HomC genes
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The University of York•Molecular Genetics and Development
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Cheryll Tickle• ISBN 9780199678143
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- Describe experiments that defined compartments of cell lineage restriction.
- Define a compartment and describe the evidence showing that the parasegment is a compartment and the developmentally important unit of the fly.
- Describe genetic experiments demonstrating that HOM-C genes regulate parasegment identity in Drosophila.
- Evaluate whether the vertebrate Hox genes share a conserved function with Drosophila HomC genes
- Explain the significance of the neural crest lineage to vertebrate anatomy.
- Distinguish the ventral-lateral and dorsal pathways of neural crest migration.
- Give examples of cell types derived from specific AP regions of neural crest. 
- Describe and interpret experiments used to ‘fate map’ neural crest cells in avian embryos.
- Describe and interpret experiments used to determine the developmental potential of neural crest cells in avian embryos.
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith• ISBN 9780198800569
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- Explain the significance of the neural crest lineage to vertebrate anatomy.
- Distinguish the ventral-lateral and dorsal pathways of neural crest migration.
- Give examples of cell types derived from specific AP regions of neural crest. 
- Describe and interpret experiments used to ‘fate map’ neural crest cells in avian embryos.
- Describe and interpret experiments used to determine the developmental potential of neural crest cells in avian embryos.
- Identify the important signalling centres in the developing limb bud and describe the experiments that identified these centres and demonstrated their importance.
- Describe the experimental evidence for the role of FGF signalling in limb bud outgrowth
- Describe the experimental evidence that shows that Shh acts as a morphogen to pattern the anterior-posterior axis of the limb bud.
- Describe how the important signalling centres in the limb bud co-ordinately regulate pattern formation in the ...
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith• ISBN 9780198800569
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- Identify the important signalling centres in the developing limb bud and describe the experiments that identified these centres and demonstrated their importance.
- Describe the experimental evidence for the role of FGF signalling in limb bud outgrowth
- Describe the experimental evidence that shows that Shh acts as a morphogen to pattern the anterior-posterior axis of the limb bud.
- Describe how the important signalling centres in the limb bud co-ordinately regulate pattern formation in the ...
- Appreciate and describe the molecular mechanisms underlying neural induction
- Describe TGF-beta (TGF-β) signal transduction and the differences between the BMP versus nodal pathways
- Discuss the experiments that demonstrate a role for BMP antagonists in vertebrate neural induction
- Describe how antisense morpholino oligos can be used to inhibit gene function
- Appreciate and describe the differences between the processes of neural induction versus neurogenesis
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith• ISBN 9780198800569
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- Appreciate and describe the molecular mechanisms underlying neural induction
- Describe TGF-beta (TGF-β) signal transduction and the differences between the BMP versus nodal pathways
- Discuss the experiments that demonstrate a role for BMP antagonists in vertebrate neural induction
- Describe how antisense morpholino oligos can be used to inhibit gene function
- Appreciate and describe the differences between the processes of neural induction versus neurogenesis
-Describe and interpret the embryological experiments that demonstrated a role for the notochord and floorplate in motor neuron induction.
-Describe and interpret the experiments that show Shh acts as a morphogen to pattern the ventral neural tube. 
-Be able to explain the concept of morphogen using examples.
-Describe the Shh signal transduction pathway.
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The University of York•Molecular Genetics and Development
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith• ISBN 9780198800569
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-Describe and interpret the embryological experiments that demonstrated a role for the notochord and floorplate in motor neuron induction.
-Describe and interpret the experiments that show Shh acts as a morphogen to pattern the ventral neural tube. 
-Be able to explain the concept of morphogen using examples.
-Describe the Shh signal transduction pathway.
-Describe the hierarchy of gene activity that regulates Drosophila segmentation
-Distinguish and explain methods used to investigate protein vs mRNA expression
-Describe the syncytial nature of the early stages of fly development and understand its significance.
-Understand and describe at the molecular level how the Gap genes regulate the expression of Eve stripe 2
-Make predictions about segment polarity gene expression in a pair-rule mutant embryo or about pair-rule gene expression in a Gap m...
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The University of York•Molecular Genetics and Development
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith• ISBN 9780198800569
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-Describe the hierarchy of gene activity that regulates Drosophila segmentation
-Distinguish and explain methods used to investigate protein vs mRNA expression
-Describe the syncytial nature of the early stages of fly development and understand its significance.
-Understand and describe at the molecular level how the Gap genes regulate the expression of Eve stripe 2
-Make predictions about segment polarity gene expression in a pair-rule mutant embryo or about pair-rule gene expression in a Gap m...
- Understand how the neural crest contributes to cardiac development and the pathology underlying congenital cardiac abnormalities.
- Explain how certain SNPs might contribute to congenital abnormalities.
- Discuss the evidence that Notch signalling is important during cardiac morphogenesis
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Principles of Development • Lewis Wolpert, Jim Smith• ISBN 9780198800569
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- Understand how the neural crest contributes to cardiac development and the pathology underlying congenital cardiac abnormalities.
- Explain how certain SNPs might contribute to congenital abnormalities.
- Discuss the evidence that Notch signalling is important during cardiac morphogenesis