Part of two 50th Anniversary volumes including contributions from dozens of outstanding developmental biologists from around the world<br>1. Seeing is Believing, or How GFP Changed my Approach to Science<br>Markus Affolter<br>2. The Notch-Mediated Proliferation Circuitry<br>Diana M. Ho and Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas<br>3. Defining the Path from Stem Cells to Differentiated Tissue<br>Philip N. Benfey<br>4. Neuregulin/ErbB Signaling in Developmental Myelin Formation and Nerve Repair<br>Carmen Birchmeier and David L. H. Bennett<br>5. Oocyte Meiotic Spindle Assembly and Function<br>Aaron F. Severson, George von Dassow, and Bruce Bowerman<br>6. Self-Organization of Spatial Patterning in Human Embryonic Stem Cells<br>Alessia Deglincerti, Fred Etoc, M. Zeeshan Ozair and Ali H. Brivanlou<br>7. The Neural Crest Migrating into the 21st Century<br>Marianne E. Bronner and Marcos Simões-Costa<br>8. Tissue Differentiation: A Personal Account of Research on Myogenesis and Cardiogenesis<br>Margaret Buckingham <br>9. Cycling in the Cell Fate Landscape<br>Corey Bunce and Blanche Capel<br>10. Securing Neuronal Cell Fate in C. Elegans<br>Chaogu Zheng and Martin Chalfie<br>11. Cancer in Drosophila: Imaginal Discs as a Model for Epithelial Tumor Formation<br>Héctor Herranz, Teresa Eichenlaub and Stephen M. Cohen<br>12. Genome Duplication: The Heartbeat of Developing Organisms<br>Melvin L. DePamphilis<br>13. The Chordin Morphogenetic Pathway<br>Edward M;. De Robertis and Yuki Moriyama<br>14. From the Eye to the Brain: Development of the Drosophila Visual System<br>Nathalie Nériec and Claude Desplan<br>15. Zygotic Genome Activators, Developmental Timing, and Pluripotency<br>Daria Onichtchouk and Wolfgang Driever<br>16. Topological Domains, Metagenes And The Emergence Of Pleiotropic Regulations at Hox Loci<br>Fabrice Darbellay and Denis Duboule<br>17. Connectomics, The Final Frontier<br>Scott W. Emmons, Dominick P. Purpura and Albert Einstein<br>18. Dedifferentiation, Redifferentiation, and Transdifferentiation of Striated Muscles during Regeneration and Development<br>Manfred Frasch<br>19. Epithelial Skin Biology: Three Decades of Developmental Biology, a Hundred Questions Answered and a Thousand New Ones to Address<br>Elaine Fuchs<br>20. Differentiation in Stem Cell Lineages and in Life: Explorations in the Male Germ Line Stem Cell Lineage<br>Margaret T. Fuller<br>21. How Somatic Adult Tissues Develop Organizer Activity<br>Matthias C. Vogg, Yvan Wenger and Brigitte Galliot<br>22. Developmental Plasticity and Developmental Symbiosis: The Return of Eco- Devo<br>Scott F. Gilbert<br>23. Twenty Years in Maine: Integrating Insights from Developmental Biology into Translational Medicine in a Small State<br>Thomas Gridley <br>24. Cell Fate Determination by Transcription Factors<br>J. B. Gurdon<br>25. Terminal Selectors of Neuronal Identity<br>Oliver Hobert<br>26. Drosophila Segment Polarity Mutants and the Rediscovery of the Hedgehog Pathway Genes<br>Philip W Ingham<br>27. The Comparative Organismal Approach in Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Insights from Ascidians and Cavefish<br>William R. Jeffery<br>28. From Cloning Neural Development Genes to Functional Studies in Mice, 30 Years of Advancements<br>Alexandra L. Joyner<br>29. Tales of Tails (and Trunks): Forming the Posterior Body in Vertebrate Embryos<br>David Kimelman<br>30. The Curious World of Gonadal Development in Mammals<br>Peter Koopman<br>31. Essay on Developmental Biology For the 50th Anniversary of Current Topics in Developmental Biology<br>Kopan, R.<br>32. A Path to Pattern<br>Thomas B. Kornberg<br>33. Gene-Environment Interactions and the Etiology of Birth Defects<br>Robert S. Krauss and Mingi Hong<br>34. Hox Genes and the Hindbrain: A Study in Segments<br>Robb Krumlauf<br>35. C. Elegans Embryonic Morphogenesis<br>Thanh Vuong-Brender, Xinyi Yang and Michel Labouesse<br>36. The Last 50 years: Mismeasurement and Mismanagement are Impeding Scientific Research<br>Peter A Lawrence<br>37. Mechanochemical Interplay Drives Polarization in Cellular and Developmental Systems<br>Qiyan Mao and Thomas Lecuit<br>38. The Pluripotency of Neural Crest Cells and their Role in Brain Development<br>Nicole M. Le Douarin and Elisabeth Dupin<br>39. Germ Plasm Biogenesis –an Oskar-Centric Perspective <br>Ruth Lehmann<br>40. Emerging Modeling Concepts and Solutions in Stem Cell Research<br>Dmitri Papatsenko and Ihor R. Lemischka