Friday, February 26, 2010

Online Protocols Updated at DRSC


Please Note: We've recently updated our dsRNA protocols on-line. View them here.

Take Your Brain to Spain

Recently saw an announcement for this ESF-EMBO symposium: "Functional Neurobiology in Minibrains: From Flies to Robots and Back Again." 17-22 October 2010 in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain. Details here.

Quote of the Week

Everything is collage, even genetics.

- from Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Bloomington Resources Paper

What's on my desk to read today? A new paper from the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC) that includes information about resources from the TRiP (in vivo RNAi) that are available at the BDSC:

Cook et al. (2010) New research resources at the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. Fly. 4(1):1-4.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Breaking Report: Dissecting Signaling with RNAi

What's on my desk today? A newly published report based on extensive double knockdown RNAi screening that made use of DRSC resources.

Nir et al. (2010) Inference of RhoGAP/GTPase regulation using single-cell morphological data from a combinatorial RNAi screen. in Genome Research.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Breaking Report: in vivo rescue

What's on my desk this morning? Another report on RNAi rescue in Drosophila:

Langer et al. (2010) In Vivo RNAi Rescue in Drosophila melanogaster with Genomic Transgenes from Drosophila pseudoobscura. PLoS One. 5(1):e8928. PubMed PMID: 20126626.

Related posts:
Tissue-Specific RNAi Rescue in Drosophila
Cross-Species RNAi Rescue in Cultured Drosophila Cells

Friday, February 5, 2010

Quote of the Week

Enjoying insects is much the same whether you do it in your own garden or in a distant country. The rule is to watch, and interfere as little as possible.

- H. Oldroyd in The Insects in Your Garden (1976, Penguin Books Ltd; England)

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Monday, February 1, 2010

Breaking Report: Fly RNAi & Huntington Disease Model

What's on my desk today?

A report that includes data from a genome-wide screen performed at the DRSC:

Zhang et al. (2010) A Genome-wide RNAi Screen for Modifiers of Aggregates Formation by Mutant Huntingtin in Drosophila. Genetics. 2010 Jan 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20100940.

The paper includes a note added during preparation comparing these results with results of a similar study by Doumanis et al. (2009) [blogged about here last fall ], as well as comparison with similar work in C. elegans.