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Disease, Evolution, Neurology, and Drugs: Fruit Fly Research Continues to Teach Us About Human Biology

Posted: February 28, 2015 at 10:44 am

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BETHESDA, MD Over 1,500 scientists from 30 countries and 46 states will attend next week's 56th Annual Drosophila Research Conference organized by the Genetics Society of America (GSA), March 48 in Chicago, IL. The conference will feature close to 1,000 presentations (including 170 talks) describing cutting-edge research on genetics, developmental biology, cancer, stem cells, neurology, epigenetics, genetic disease, aging, immunity, behavior, drug discovery, and technology. It is the largest meeting in the world that brings together researchers who use the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to study biology.

Of special note are scientists whose achievements in genetics are being honored through awards and special lectures:

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most versatile and widely used model organisms applied to the study of genetics, physiology, and evolution. Drosophila research has led to some of the most significant breakthroughs in our understanding of biology, including five Nobel prizes. It is an effective system for studying a range of human genetic diseases, ranging from cancer to diabetes to neurodegenerative disorders. Fruit flies are a valuable resource for biomedical research because of the efficiency and cost-effectiveness with which comprehensive, sensitive, and accurate biological data can be generated. Research presented at the Drosophila conference, like that at other GSA conferences, helps advance our fundamental understanding of living systems and provides crucial insight into human biology, health and disease.

The conference will take place at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers at 301 East North Water Street. The organizers include Gregory J. Beitel, PhD (Northwestern University), Michael Eisen (University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Marc Freeman (University of Massachusetts Medical School; Howard Hughes Medical Institute), and Ilaria Rebay (University of Chicago). For additional information, please see the conference website athttp://www.genetics-gsa.org/drosophila/2015/.

More information on the importance of Drosophila research: Fruit Flies in Biomedical Research. Michael F. Wangler, Shinya Yamamoto, and Hugo J. Bellen.GeneticsEarly online January 26, 2015

MediaEligibility: The 2015 Drosophila Research Conference is open to media representatives, including those frombona fide print, broadcast, radio, and online venues, and freelance writers on a verifiable assignment from an established news source. Please contactpress@genetics-gsa.orgfor information about complimentary press registration.

* * * About the Genetics Society of America (GSA) Founded in 1931, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is the professional scientific society for genetics researchers and educators. The Societys more than 5,000 members worldwide work to deepen our understanding of the living world by advancing the field of genetics, from the molecular to the population level. GSA promotes research and fosters communication through a number of GSA-sponsored conferences including regular meetings that focus on particular model organisms. GSA publishes two peer-reviewed, peer-edited scholarly journals: GENETICS, which has published high quality original research across the breadth of the field since 1916, and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, an open-access journal launched in 2011 to disseminate high quality foundational research in genetics and genomics. The Society also has a deep commitment to education and fostering the next generation of scholars in the field. For more information about GSA, please visit http://www.genetics-gsa.org.

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Call of Duty AW: "Feel it Out" – SN6 DNA Bomb Multiplayer Gameplay! – Video

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BEST OF BILL: WHAM, BAM…DNA JAM! – Video

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Advanced Warfare: "ONE SHOT" DNA Bomb w/ Snazzy Clip – Video

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Advanced Warfare Road To DNA #1 – With the SQUAD – Video

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Advanced Warfare DNA BOMB Sniper ATLAS [73-1 World Record] – Video

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Virology 2015 Lecture #8: Viral DNA Replication – Video

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Untangling DNA with a droplet of water, a pipet and a polymer

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Researchers have long sought an efficient way to untangle DNA in order to study its structure -- neatly unraveled and straightened out -- under a microscope. Now, chemists and engineers at KU Leuven, in Belgium, have devised a strikingly simple and effective solution: they inject genetic material into a droplet of water and use a pipet tip to drag it over a glass plate covered with a sticky polymer. The droplet rolls like a ball over the plate, sticking the DNA to the plate surface. The unraveled DNA can then be studied under a microscope. The researchers described the technique in the journal ACS Nano.

There are two ways to decode DNA: DNA sequencing and DNA mapping. In DNA sequencing, short strings of DNA are studied to determine the exact order of nucleotides -- the bases A, C, G and T -- within a DNA molecule. The method allows for highly-detailed genetic analysis, but is time- and resource-intensive.

For applications that call for less detailed analysis, such as determining if a given fragment of DNA belongs to a virus or a bacteria, scientists opt for DNA mapping. This method uses the longest possible DNA fragments to map the DNA's 'big picture' structure.

DNA mapping can be used together with fluorescence microscopy to quickly identify DNA's basic characteristics.

In this study, researchers describe an improved version of a DNA mapping technique they previously developed called fluorocoding, explains chemist Jochem Deen: "In fluorocoding, the DNA is marked with a coloured dye to make it visible under a fluorescence microscope. It is then inserted into a droplet of water together with a small amount of acid and placed on a glass plate. The DNA-infused water droplet evaporates, leaving behind the outstretched DNA pattern."

"But this deposition technique is complicated and does not always produce the long, straightened pieces of DNA that are ideal for DNA mapping," he continues. It took a multidisciplinary team of chemists and engineers specialised in how liquids behave to figure out how to optimise the technique.

"Our improved technique combines two factors: the natural internal flow dynamics of a water droplet and a polymer called Zeonex that binds particularly well to DNA," explains engineer Wouters Sempels.

The 'rolling droplet' technique is simple, low-cost and effective: "We used a glass platelet covered with a layer of the polymer Zeonex. Instead of letting the DNA-injected water droplet dry on the plate, we used a pipet tip to drag it across the plate. The droplet rolls like a ball over the plate, sticking the DNA to the plate's surface. The strings of DNA 'captured' on the plate in this way are longer and straighter," explains Wouters Sempels.

To test the technique's effectiveness, the researchers applied it to the DNA of a virus whose exact length was already known. The length of the DNA captured using the rolling droplet technique matched the known length of the virus' DNA.

The rolling droplet technique could be easily applied in a clinical setting to quickly identify DNA features, say the researchers. "Our technique requires very little start-up materials and can be carried out quickly. It could be very effective in determining whether a patient is infected with a specific type of virus, for example. In this study, we focused on viral DNA, but the technique can just as easily be used with human or bacterial DNA," says Wouters Sempels.

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Personal Genome Pioneers and thought leaders interviewed by Krulwich and Zimmer – Part 9 of 12 – Video

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