Evodevo in the Green Lineage

The main theme of this course is centred on how regulatory networks and specific patterns of gene expression shape development and have evolved in the plant kingdom.
The developmental genetics of plant speciation, evolution of flower development, and molecular mechanisms generating flower diversity and underlying plant domestication will be the major topics.
Overall, this Evo-Devo course will give an overview, through the examples of various developmental models, of how shaping/reshaping of genes and genomes drove the diversity represented along the tree of life and conducted to present-day organisms living on earth.

- Recapitulate the main innovations that drove developmental patterning in both the animal and plant kingdoms, as illustrated through models described in the lectures;
- Describe some important networks/key factors (genetic and epigenetic) involved in development and evolution;
- Explain an experimental strategy used in a scientific study, analyze results and conclude from them on the key discoveries;
- Be critical about questions addressed by a study, as well as approaches, in link with the state-of-the art;
- Be able to propose experimental strategies to answer questions related to development and evolution.