Sentences with phrase «fly model organism»

In experiments on the fruit fly model organism Drosophila melanogaster, Heidelberg University biologists gained new insight into how feeding behaviour is encoded and controlled.

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Dennis has a PhD in genetics / developmental biology from the University of British Columbia and a special interest in studying pattern formation and cell - cell communication during tissue development using fruit flies as a model organism.

The less - complex nervous system of the fruit fly makes them easier to study than people or even mice, another genetic model organism.

Drosophila melanogaster, a dipteran (two - winged) insect, is the species of fruit fly that is commonly used in genetic experiments; it is among the most important model organisms.

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a heavily studied model organism often used to examine genetic changes during evolution.

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has a life expectancy of approx. 8 weeks and belongs to the model organisms studied by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in their quest to understand aging in living beings.

To uncover basic age - related sleep mechanisms, the Max Planck scientists studied the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a classical model organism in ageing research.

Different model organisms like the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are used for their research, aimed at decoding the principles of stem cell control with the aim to also apply them to higher forms of life and eventually humans.

During panel discussions Sept. 18 at 6, 7 and 8 a.m. PDT (9, 10 and 11 a.m. EDT), scientists and researchers will discuss the various science and research studies, including RapidScat, 3 - D printing in Zero - G, technology to measure bone density, and model organism research using rodents, fruit flies and plants.

Using the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly as a model organism, the team led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann at Heidelberg University's Centre for Organismal Studies was able to show how a special developmental gene from the Hox family influences germline stem cells.

In a 2012 paper in Neuron, based on meetings organized by the Oxnard, California - based Kavli Foundation, Yuste and colleagues laid out a plan to progress gradually from mapping the brain activity of simple model organisms such as the fruit fly to charting the brains of creatures that contain roughly 1 million neurons, such as the Etruscan shrew.

And this is where yeast, worms and flies can help: Although they may not look it, these so - called model organisms share a lot of genetic information with humans.

The fly has been an excellent model organism to understand mammalian behaviour and metabolism, and so this work can point to places to look further in humans,» says Sokolowski.

NASA will host a prelaunch panel discussion at 8 a.m. PDT Sept. 18, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, featuring scientists and researchers who will discuss various science and research studies, including the four Ames - supported payloads to study model organism research using yeast, rodents, fruit flies and plants.

Using genetic models in a variety of organisms — yeast, nematodes, fruit flies, zebrafish — PLab aims to identify candidate treatment compounds for each disease, which can then be refined and taken to the clinic with partner companies.

«In model organisms, like yeast or flies, scientists often generate mutations to determine which letters in a DNA sequence are needed for a particular gene to function,» explains CSHL Professor Adam Siepel.

Given his training in developmental biology, Raman focused the team to seek a novel drug target on genes important to the development of model organisms — fruit flies (Drosophila) and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)-- rather than on oncogenes that transform a normal cell into a cancer cell.

«The fruit fly is a well - known model organism used to understand human biology as it, like all other living organisms, has to fend off various viral infections.

«The key breakthrough came from using a fruit fly model of human ALS and FTD that allowed us to screen these 400 candidates for ones that block brain cell death in a living organism,» says Lloyd.

Dubbed model - organism ENCODE (modENCODE), this new focus will apply innovative methods and technologies for the study of gene regulation to the smaller, and therefore more manageable, genomes of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and the round worm (Caenorhabditis elegans).

Pol III was inhibited using a variety of genetic techniques across several different model organisms, from flies and worms to yeast.

Drosophila melanogaster, the common vinegar fly, is a model organism for scientific research.

Like the mouse and the fruit fly, Neurospora, a fungus, has served as a model organism in research.

They next turned to a couple of model organisms with more cells — nematodes, also known as C. elegans, and fruit flies, or Drosophila.

We address these questions by combining genetics with live imaging, quantitative image analysis and biophysical approaches using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism.

The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is widely used as a model organism for biological and biomedical research and so such puppetry should allow the species to be studied more easily than ever before.

In addition, projects to perform genetic interaction screens on disease genes in model organisms (yeast, worm, fly, fish) will not be considered, unless the project includes substantive specific aims that investigate the disease relevance of any new genes discovered in human or mammalian model systems.

Geneticists across the model organism and human genetics communities recognize Hieter for his dedication to uniting human biologists with those who work on model organisms such as mice, fruit flies, worms, and yeast.

Fruit flies serve as a good model organism for understanding the molecular mechanisms behind many human diseases — around 75 percent of disease - causing genes are found in the species in a similar form.

The fruit fly is an ideal model organism for such a task, because of its sophisticated genetic tools to analyze neurons and manipulate neural circuits in the brain.

The synapse between a neuron and a muscle — the neuromuscular junction — of a fruit fly larva turns out to be a good model for studying how the nervous system works in general, which can be applied to other organisms, including humans.

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