Project description:Hydra have a remarkable ability to regenerate after bisection or dissociation. Thus, Hydra is a unique model for studying the mechanisms underlying stemness and self renewal biology. The regeneration of Hyrda offers unique way to investigate molecular mechanisms leading to the establishment of organizer activity during animal development. Here we have investigated the genome-wide occurrence of RNA Polymearse II and Histone H3 in Hydra vulgaris.
Project description:Comparative proteome of extracted Hydra vulgaris AEP extracellular matrix form Wnt9/10 knock out and Azakenpaullone treated animals. Used to analyse the changes in molecular composition of the mesoglea (ECM) of normal and Wnt depleted animals
Project description:Analysis of MyD88 as a putative mediator in host-microbe-interactions MyD88-Hairpin was micro-injected in Hydra AEP embryos. The resulting Hatchling D3 showed a patchy distribution of the transgene observed by GFP. By asexual reproduction via budding and constant selection for the marker gene GFP the transgene could be driven into different cell ines. Therefore two different cultures were established. Polyps that showed no GFP-Signal anymore (control) and Polyps with both, endodermal and ectodermal transgenic cell-lines (knockdown).
