| WEEK | TOPICS |
|---|
| 1st Week | 1. What are Model Organisms? What Do Model Organisms Represent? |
| 2nd Week | 2. Whole Organism and Other Organisms |
| 3rd Week | 3. What are the Characteristics of Model Organisms? Characteristics and Differences of Experimental Organisms from Other Uses as Models |
| 4th Week | 4. Origin and evolution of model organisms |
| 5th Week | 5. Basic concepts in embryonic development. Information about mutant collections. |
| 6th Week | 6. Knowledge of the development of new powerful tools and techniques to study the molecular processes that regulate development. |
| 7th Week | 7. Complete genome sequences now available, in vivo techniques, and knowledge of expressing any gene at any time or place in all organisms. |
| 8th Week | 8. Information about different organisms used in biomedical research today: advantages and disadvantages. |
| 9th Week | 9. Transforming Organisms into Models |
| 10th Week | 10. Controlling Variability: Modeling Organisms as Families of Samples |
| 11th Week | 11. The Modeling Ecosystem: How Model Organisms Facilitate Integrative Understanding |
| 12th Week | 12. Model Organisms as Models |
| 13th Week | 13. Retrieve certain information from genomic databases on certain model organisms, including Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, Danio rerio, and Mus musculus. |
| 14th Week | 14. Dynamic simulation of biological processes |
