发展生物学的广泛领域是高度跨学科的，存在于所有基础医学领域以及动植物生物学中。我们在加州理工学院（Caltech）教授发育生物学的目标是进行博士前培训计划，以使年轻科学家为系统级发育细胞生物学的成功职业做好准备。认识到这一事实，我们旨在为学生提供发展和干细胞生物学方面的广泛知识，并为他们选择专业领域提供深入的知识。这些领域涉及从基础科学到生化，生物物理，遗传和定量方法，以及各种开发系统中的定向研究。我们的学生接受了著名的模型生物（小鼠，雏鸡，斑马鱼，非洲爪蟾，果蝇，线虫，海胆，拟南芥）以及不寻常的生物（如
Developmental biology focuses on how organisms arise from single cells. The process starts with the fertilized egg, which has the ability to generate all cell types in the body, and continues with the formation of complex structures like the nervous system, limbs, and heart. Studies in developmental biology utilize a broad toolkit that combines classical experimental embryology with modern approaches, including transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics and high resolution imaging, to tackle fascinating questions of how multicellular organisms develop and evolve. By spanning model systems from invertebrates to vertebrates and plants, work at Caltech not only provides deep basic science insights for understanding development and evolution, but also is directly relevant to stem cell biology, congenital birth defects and many diseases.