The Making and Un-Making of Neuronal Circuits in Drosophila

The small fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has for over a century now had a large impact on biological and biomedical research; however, our knowledge of the fly brain has lagged significantly behind our understanding of other aspects of its developmen

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Series Editor Wolfgang Walz University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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The Making and Un-Making of Neuronal Circuits in Drosophila Edited by

Bassem A. Hassan VIB Center for the Biology of Discase, Center for Human Genetics VIB and University of Leuven School of Medicine Leuven, Belgium

Editor Bassem A. Hassan VIB Center for the Biology of Discase Center for Human Genetics VIB University of Leuven School of Medicine Leuven, Belgium

ISSN 0893-2336 ISSN 1940-6045 (electronic) ISBN 978-1-61779-829-0 ISBN 978-1-61779-830-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-61779-830-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012939966 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Cover Illustration Caption: Following traumatic incision, regenerating Drosophila circadian LNv neurons in the CNS grow back to their original target sites and are seen approach the remnants of their former distal stumps (right top). In this image the LNv neurons have been topographically colour coded and superimposed onto a Drosophila half brain showing the optic lobe arborisation from the contralateral GFP expressing LNv neurons. This image was acquired with a Zeiss Lumar V12 and a Zeiss LSM510 META NLO and processed with Adobe photoshop CS2. Image by Marta Koch, Derya Ayaz and Bassem A. Hassan. Printed on acid-free paper Humana Press is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface to the Series Under the guidance of its founders Alan Boulton and Glen Baker, the Neuromethods series by Humana Press has been very successful since the first volume that appeared in 1985. In about 17 years, 37 volumes have been published. In 2006, Springer Science + Business Media made a renewed commitment to this series. The new program will focus on methods that are either unique to the nervous system and excitable cells or need special consideration to be applied to the neurosciences. The program will strike a balance between recent and exciting developments like those concerning new animal models of disease, imaging, in vivo methods, and more established techniques. These include immunocytochemistry and electrophysiological technologies. New trainees in neurosciences still need a sound footing in these older methods in o