We strongly recommend that entering students also take our Summer Institute in Anatomy during the June preceding their entry into the Masters program, which provides an introduction to anatomy and preparation for the rigorous medical school anatomy course that they will take beginning in August. The main program runs between mid-August and the end of June, and includes nine courses, described in detail below.
All anatomy courses are taught by the experienced faculty of the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution (FAE). Some exposure to nonhuman comparative anatomy is incorporated to provide training in the use of model organisms for instructional programs that use these models. A teaching practicum providing training and experience in instructional delivery of anatomical knowledge in lecture and laboratory settings is also included at the end of the program. The collection of systems represented in the Sourcebook of Models for Biomedical Research reflect the diversity and utility of models that are used in biomedicine.The core of this one-year full-time program is a series of courses providing intensive immersion in human anatomy through both classroom instruction and dissection laboratories, including small group interactions with our faculty. That utility is based on the consideration that observations made in particular organisms will provide insight into the workings of other, more complex systems.
Some models have the advantage that the reproductive, mitotic, development or aging cycles are rapid compared with those in humans others are utilized because individual proteins may be studied in an advantageous way and have human homologs.
Other organisms are facile to grow in laboratory settings, lend themselves to convenient analyses, have defined genomes or present especially good human models of human or animal disease. The Sourcebook of Models for Biomedical Research is a comprehensive and extensive collection of these important medical parallels. While the entire book is not devoted to the remarkable success of the genomic programs, this work is well represented and indexed within these pages. This volume will be an invaluable resource for pharmaceutical and academic researchers across a wide range of biological fields. "Conn, a distinguished scientist … has created one of the most significant and comprehensive model reference tools in recent years. … provides a system of relevancy that leads the serious student to adapt the model to their own different and perhaps unique research applications. The essays have a sufficient number of tables and overwhelmingly black-and-white figures and photographs to assist in comprehension. … Very useful for libraries serving upper-division and graduate students in the life sciences." (John M.
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