Project description:Study of context-specific regulation during different developmental time windows of Drosophila melanogaster embryogenesis. Single cell chromatin accessibility was profiled by sciATAC-seq in F1 hybrid embryos obtained by crossing males from four genetically distinct inbred lines from the DGRP collection (Mackay et al. 2012) to females from a common maternal “virginizer” line. F1 embryos were profiled at three key stages of embryonic development: 2-4 hours, 6-8 hours and 10-12 hours after egg laying.
Project description:We applied microfluidic multiplex PCR and deep sequencing (mmPCR-seq) to quantify RNA editing levels at targeted sites in Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila sechellia and the species-specific alleles of their F1 hybrids to understand the contribution of cis and trans regulatory factors to regulating RNA editing levels.