Notes

• Drosophila Genetics
• Drosophila Screens and Tools

Slides

• Drosophila Lecture I
• Drosophila Lecture II
• Drosophila Lecture III Homework (due 4/23/09)
• Drosophila Lecture IV
  

Reading:

• St Johnston, D. (2002) The Art and Design of Genetic Screens: Drosophila Melanogaster Nature Genetics Reviews 3:176
• Mitosis Papers
• Barr et al. (2004) Polo-Like Kinases and the Orchestration of Cell Division Nature Reviews 5:429
• Basto et al. (2000) Rough Deal and Zw10 are required for the metaphase checkpoint in Drosophila
• Zhang Auroa Kinases
• The Spindle -assembly checkpoint in space and time Musacchio & Salmon (2007)
• Rod–Zw10–Zwilch: a key player in the spindle checkpoint Karess (2005)
• Genes Required for Mitotic Spindle Assembly in Drosophila S2 Cells, Gohta Goshima et al., Science 417 (2007) 316
  

Exams

• 2004
• 2005
• 2006
• 2007
  
• 2008