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Danqing Bei

Baylor College of Medicine

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Organism:Drosophila· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2

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RNAi-based screen for pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster reveals regulators of brain dopamine and sleep

Samantha L. Deal, Danqing Bei, Shelley Gibson, Harim Delgado-Seo, Yoko Fujita, Kyla Wilwayco, Elaine Seto, Amita Sehgal, Shinya Yamamoto

The paper identifies regulators of dopamine and sleep in Drosophila by screening genes affecting cuticle pigmentation, finding novel genes like mask that influence dopamine metabolism and behavior.

iScience · Dec 11, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Drosophila functional screening of de novo variants in autism uncovers deleterious variants and facilitates discovery of rare neurodevelopmental diseases

Paul C. Marcogliese, Samantha L. Deal, Jonathan C. Andrews, J. Michael Harnish, Venkata Hemanjani Bhavana, Hillary K. Graves, Sharayu V. Jangam, Xi Luo, Ning Liu, Danqing Bei, Yu-Hsin Chao, Brooke Hull, Pei-Tseng Lee, Hongling Pan, Pradnya Bhadane, , Shinya Yamamoto

The paper functionally tests ASD missense variants in Drosophila, finding 38% caused functional alterations and identifying GLRA2 as a cause of neurodevelopmental phenotypes.

Cell Reports · Mar 1, 2022Peer-reviewedGenetics