I can't wait for things to get started in this course. It's been awhile since we had a major overhaul of the course (in fact the last big one was when I took over 3 years ago). One of the things that we'll try to do is to concentrate a bit more on the basics at first and then hopefully build up to more complex and potentially crazy things. So we need lectures on material we have never covered before:
- neuroglia and their role in development
- why proteins like neurotrophic factors are so important to the nervous system
- neurogenesis and why it doesn't occur everywhere
- what models do we currently have for brain development - real and virtual
- can we really engineer a brain from scratch (as part of the final module)
Hopefully we'll be able to generate alot of interest and discussion in the smaller course
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