Project description:The purpose is to have a overview on how chronic dysfunction of store-operated calcium entry change transcription profiles of adult fly fat tissue. Methods:To achieve chronic dysfunction of store-operated calcium entry, we carried out the Temperature-caused RNAi Pulse Induction of Stim (29 celcius degree incubation, Stim-TRiPI, or Stim-TRIP in data file) in fat storage tissue of 6 days old adult male flies. At day 10 and 11 after Stim-TRiPI (Stim-TRIP), we isolated the fat tissues and carried out RNAseq analysis based gene-level read counts.
Project description:The Personalized Discovery Process is the only program offering patients treatment recommendations based on an empirically constructed Drosophila "fly" model of their disease. Special committee selects one of the one of the few 2-3 FDA approved drug combinations or single agents that improved survival in the fly cancer model.
Project description:Parasitoid wasps of the species Diachasmimorpha longicaudata are associated with a heritable poxvirus, known as DlEPV, that is stored in the venom gland of adult female wasps and transferred to tephritid fly hosts of the wasps during oviposition. We conducted a RNA-seq differential expression analysis to gain insight on how DlEPV can replicate in both wasps and their fly hosts but only cause pathogenic effects during replication in flies. Our analysis revealed that 91.2% (176 of 193) of DlEPV genes showed significant differential expression during peak virus replication in wasp venom glands compared to parasitized flies. Over 80% of DlEPV replication genes were significantly upregulated in wasps, while 79% of DlEPV putative virulence genes were significantly upregulated in fly hosts. These data therefore support a dichotomy of viral function, where virus replication is promoted in wasp tissue and virulence in host tissue. Such a division of viral activity could represent an important adaptation to maintain a stable symbiosis between this virus and its associated parasitoid.
Project description:To address the molecular mechanisms underlying environmental adaptation, we studied a Drosophila melanogaster line, termed Dark-fly, which has been maintained in constant dark conditions for 57 years (1400 generations).The structural gene copy number changes between the dark fly and its control were assessed by aCGH array. The comparison showed that hundreds of genes in the dark fly bear duplications or deletions relative to the control line.
Project description:The transcription factor Fer2 plays a neuroprotective role in the dopaminergic neurons of the fly brain, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are not understood. By using chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled to sequecing (ChIP-seq), we identified over 250 genomic binding sites bound by Fer2 in the fly brain. Combining this dataset with RNA-seq of fly heads upon inducible Fer2 overexpression, we obtained a list of 26 direct target genes, bound and regulated by Fer2.
