Amira Hassan

AGES provides a non-lethal, cost-effective method to temporally control GAL4 activity in Drosophila by using auxin to degrade GAL80, enabling precise gene expression regulation.

The paper identifies transcription factors uniquely expressed or depleted in specific neurotransmitter types during Drosophila development and shows they directly bind key neuronal genes.

This study shows that Cap-G, a condensin I subunit, is essential for proper gene expression in post-mitotic neurons, leading to developmental arrest and gene expression changes when knocked down.