What I taught today: gene regulation and signaling

January 28th, 2013 by PZ Myers

That’s the question we’ll be asking next. I warned them too that I won’t be lecturing at them on Wednesday, so they’d better have their morning coffee. I’m expecting them to read a review paper on positional information in embryos (pdf), and I’m going to make them explain it all to me for a change.

Slides for this talk (pdf)

For Wednesday:

Kerszberg M, Wolpert L (2007) Specifying Positional Information in the Embryo: Looking Beyond Morphogens. Cell 130(2):205–209.

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  1. PZ Myers:

    January 28th, 2013 at 9:42 am

    Physics? Oh, those are general rules for patterning molecules.

  2. gmoney:

    January 28th, 2013 at 10:06 am

    PZ, thanks again for posting these. My developmental biology is weak and has benefited from your insight.

  3. LykeX:

    January 28th, 2013 at 10:36 am

    But, PZ, why do you only blog about feminism?

  4. yubal:

    January 28th, 2013 at 11:04 am

    The “new” imperialistic view:
    Systems Biology.

    Btw:
    Always happy to hear our data is getting used in a bigger context downstream the pipeline..

  5. PZ Myers:

    January 28th, 2013 at 11:36 am

    Feminism is just another subset of developmental biology, obviously.

  6. rq:

    January 28th, 2013 at 2:13 pm

    And here I was going to complain about how much I hate science being mixed in with my gender politics.
    Thanks for the continuing education. Fascinating stuff.

  7. Christian Copley Salem:

    January 29th, 2013 at 1:17 am

    I wish I had this kind of detail as an undergrad. They just fed us cheerios and made sure our bottle didn’t go empty. Although, I did have a lot of cell positioning material in graduate courses … mainly in slime molds, not so much in embryos.