Regeneration: Phenomena to Mechanisms

Harvard FAS

This course emphasizes the unique biology of animals that can regrow large body parts with perfection. Students will learn about the vast diversity of regenerative prowess across the animal kingdom. The goal will be to extract generalizable principles whereby super-regenerators activate and execute response pathways that enable them to create not only new tissues, but also to organize and shape them to replicate what was lost. We will analyze both invertebrate and vertebrate examples. The…