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Introducing a new Special Collection, Spotlight on Drosophila: Translational Impact

Posted by , on 3 March 2016

In the latest issue, Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) launches a Special Collection that focuses on translational advances made using the Drosophila model, including insights into disease mechanisms, emerging technologies and therapeutic advances. This Collection, guest edited by Norbert Perrimon and  Frontal view of a wild-type Drosophila melanogaster head (confocal microscopy capturing autofluorescence) courtesy of Vilaiwan M. Fernandes, who is currently conducting postdoctoral research in Claude Desplan's lab, New York University (https://www.nyu.edu/projects/desplan/).Nancy M. Bonini, includes a poster article on tools and assays for fly research (from Hugo Bellen’s lab), comprehensive Review articles, an update from Flybase, and original Research articles reporting new findings pertinent to understanding neurodegenerative diseases. An Editorial provides a summary of the Collection’s contents so far. The launch issue, which is dedicated to the memory of Marcos Vidal, can be accessed in full here.

Coming up soon is a Model for Life interview with Gerry Rubin, Review articles from the labs of Seung Kim and Heinrich Jasper, plus more original research.

To read and sign up for updates on the full Collection, go to the dedicated page at http://dmm.biologists.org/collection/drosophila-disease-model

 

 

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