… the neuromuscular junction, and a future in science. drosophila NMJ synapse function synapse formation … other.” To conduct their work, the Littleton lab uses Drosophila melanogaster , the common fruit fly whose genome … muscular dystrophies and various autoimmune disorders. In Drosophila, it is a neurotransmitter called glutamate, not …
… September 22, 2016 None chair academics Menicon drosophila synapse NMJ The School of Science announced that … epilepsy, autism and Huntington’s disease. Using Drosophila as a model, Littleton combines molecular biology, … electrophysiology, and imaging approaches with Drosophila genetics, to investigate the mechanisms …
… Fruit fly models of human disease Discoveries The Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly is clearly different than a … evolution. Because of these fundamental parallels, Drosophila can powerfully and accessibly model many human … the effects of loss of normal Huntingtin function in Drosophila models since 2009, yielding a series of studies …
… identity Single Cell Transcriptomics and Epigenomics drosophila synapse function … probes this “molecular logic” in two neuron types of the Drosophila fruit fly, shows that even similar cells push and … affected in specific brain disorders. “We wanted to use Drosophila as a way to see whether we can, in fact, determine …
… Public Event Decoding of olfactory representations in Drosophila One of the major aims of our lab is to crack the … our efforts to address this question in the fruit fly Drosophila by combining comprehensive neuronal imaging, … of Tokyo, studying the mechanisms of synaptogenesis in Drosophila with Dr. Akinao Nose. From 2006, he was a postdoc …
… synapse formation synapse function synaptic transmission drosophila … made their findings in neurons that control muscles in Drosophila fruit flies. These cells are models in …
… tools from D. melanogaster to closely related Drosophila species, allowing us to directly compare … of the rapid evolution of female pheromones in the Drosophila genus to examine how parallel changes in mating … the functional architecture of neural circuits in Drosophila in Richard Axel’s lab at Columbia University. Ruta …
… evolution. circuits C. elegans neurodegeneration epilepsy drosophila Internal states Evolution Why studying simple … and so do classic neuroscience model organisms like mice, Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies, and Caenorhabditis … said. “Being able to manipulate the homologs of those in Drosophila and to use genetic approaches to put them into …
