• Introduction
• 63 min
  1. Drosophila genetics - the first 25 years

  • Prof. Dan Lindsley
• Establishment of the Primary Body Axes
• 28 min
  2. Homeotic genes in Drosophila's bithorax complex - The legacy of Ed Lewis

  • Prof. Francois Karch
• 30 min
  3. Limb development: how Drosophila genetics can be used to understand pattern formation

  • Prof. Konrad Basler
• Cell Type Specification and Organ Systems
• 63 min
  4. From germ cell specification to gonad formation

  • Prof. Ruth Lehmann
• 37 min
  5. Drosophila stem cells

  • Prof. Michael Buszczak
• 46 min
  6. Legacy of drosophila genetics: female germline stem cells

  • Prof. Michael Buszczak
• 34 min
  7. Intestinal stem cell-mediated repair in Drosophila 1

  • Prof. Tony Ip
• 30 min
  8. Intestinal stem cell-mediated repair in Drosophila 2

  • Prof. Tony Ip
• 43 min
  9. The miracle of morphogenesis, cell adhesion, polarity and cytoskeletal regulation

  • Prof. Mark Peifer
• 34 min
  10. Axon guidance in Drosophila

  • Prof. John Thomas
• 35 min
  11. Development and physiology of the heart

  • Prof. Rolf Bodmer
• 37 min
  12. Identification of host defenses in the Drosophila gut using genome-scale RNAi

  • Prof. Dominique Ferrandon
• Genome Organization and Function
• 53 min
  13. The genetic analysis of meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster females

  • Prof. R. Scott Hawley
• 46 min
  14. Genome scale analysis of cellular processes using RNAi

  • Dr. Amy Kiger
• 36 min
  15. Dorsal-ventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo

  • Prof. Mike Levine
• 34 min
  16. Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling in drosophila: from germline to early embryogenesis

  • Dr. Helena Araujo
• 27 min
  17. Genome-wide pooled CRISPR screen in arthropod cells

  • Prof. Norbert Perrimon
• Behavior
• 40 min
  18. The development of the peripheral nervous system in the fruitfly Drosophila

  • Prof. Hugo Bellen
• 54 min
  19. Genetics of chemosensory transduction: taste and smell

  • Dr. Leslie Vosshall
• 46 min
  20. TRP channels and opsins: universal mediators of sensory biology and behavior

  • Prof. Craig Montell
• 72 min
  21. Cracking the case of circadian rhythms by Drosophila genetics

  • Prof. Jeffrey C. Hall
• 46 min
  22. Sleep in Drosophila

  • Dr. Ralph Greenspan
• 91 min
  23. Drosophila's contribution to the genetics of learning and memory

  • Prof. Tim Tully
• 34 min
  24. Drosophila as a model for drug addiction

  • Prof. Ulrike Heberlein
• Mechanism of Human Disease
• 65 min
  25. Cross-genomic analysis of human disease genes

  • Prof. Ethan Bier
• 56 min
  26. Human neurodegenerative disease: insights from Drosophila genetics

  • Prof. Nancy Bonini
• 21 min
  27. Metastasis of Drosophila tumors

  • Prof. Allen Shearn
• 51 min
  28. Rac-enhanced CAR immunotherapy: RaceCAR

  • Prof. Denise Montell
• 34 min
  29. Control of tissue growth: elucidation of the Hippo signaling pathway

  • Dr. Duojia Pan
• Evolution of Adaptive Novelties
• 56 min
  30. The evolution of morphological novelty

  • Prof. Nipam Patel
• 36 min
  31. The genetic architecture of complex traits: lessons from Drosophila

  • Prof. Trudy Mackay
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 25 min
  32. Using gene expression information to provide insights into patterning and differentiation

  • Prof. Angelike Stathopoulos
• 49 min
  33. Regulation of gastrulation in Drosophila

  • Prof. Dr. Maria Leptin
• 31 min
  34. microRNA function in stem cells

  • Prof. Hannele Ruohola-Baker

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1. Introduction
2. Stem cells undergo asymmetric self-renewing
3. Why stem cells are important
4. Stem cells in Drosophila
5. Cell types in the Drosophila ovary
6. Markers expressed in specific cell types
7. Lineage tracing (1)
8. Lineage tracing (2)
9. Lineage tracing (3)
10. Stem cell niche
11. Expanded niche expand stem cell population
12. The GAL4/UAS system of gene expression
13. Overexpression of dpp expands GSC population
14. Dpp pathway in Drosophila
15. GSC loss in dpp pathway mutants
16. Clonal analysis in Drosophila
17. Downstream components of dpp pathway
18. Model for Dpp regulation of GSCs
19. Lost GSCs are replaced
20. Cell types in the Drosophila testis
21. upd is expressed in Hub
22. Jak/Stat pathway in Drosophila
23. Disruption of Jak/Stat results in GSC loss
24. Over-expression of upd
25. Model of testis niche
26. Niche maintains GSC
27. Can cysts revert back to stem cells? (1)
28. Can cysts revert back to stem cells? (2)
29. Stat mutant cells exhibit precocious development
30. Differentiated cysts breakdown and repopulation
31. Niches maintain GSCs and drive dedifferentiation
32. Do stem cells signal back to niche?
33. Notch Delta signaling pathway
34. Activation of Notch pathways
35. Loss of Notch signaling leads to loss of GSCs
36. Drosophila digestive tract
37. Clonal analysis
38. Midgut has multipotent stem cells
39. Notch signaling drives differentiation in midgut
40. Silencing of differentiation factors in stem cells
41. Expression of nuclear proteins in stem cells
42. scny shares homology with yeast and USPs
43. scny mutant cells display elevated H3mK4 levels
44. scny mutants exhibit chromatin changes
45. scny mutants exhibit stem cell loss in ovary (1)
46. scny mutants exhibit stem cell loss in ovary (2)
47. scny functions in follicle stem cells
48. Cell lineage in the Drosophila adult midgut
49. DAPT blocks Notch activity in midgut
50. DAPT suppresses stem cell loss in scny midguts
51. Model for SCNY function in stem cells
52. Take home messages
53. Acknowledgments
54. References for specific images

Topics Covered

• Lineage tracing
• Stem cell niches
• Germline stem cell niche in ovary
• Germline stem cell niche in testis
• Dedifferentiation
• Stem cell signaling back to the niche
• Intestinal stem cells
• Stem cell chromatin

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Series:

• The Legacy of Drosophila Genetics

Categories:

• Cell Biology

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Publication History

• Published on September 29, 2008
• Archived on May 28, 2025

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Michael Buszczak has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.