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Molecular mechanisms for building the brain: molecular genetic analysis of brain development in the neurogenetic model systems drosophila and mouse

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Understanding the cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in building the brain is a fundamental problem in the neurosciences. Recent studies on brain development in the two leading genetic model systems, Drosophila and mouse, indicate that many basic molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in regionalization, neurogenesis and pathfinding in the brain are highly conserved. We propose to take advantage of the powerful genetic and molecular genetic technology available in these two model systems in order to develop and implement a novel and multi-disciplinary approach for the identification, characterization and manipulation of the genes that are essential for building complex brains. In Drosophila different regulatory control genes involved in brain development are now being characterised and evidence is accumulating that such genes play the role of master regulators for specific brain regions, including the visual system (e.g. Pax6/ey, Otx/otd) . Due to the sophisticated genetics and molecular genetics available in Drosophila, it is now possible within reasonable time limits to characterize the brainphenotypic effects of numerous additional candidate regulatory genes of this type, study the interactions among these genes, determine their downstream targets, and investigate their functional role through gene rescue and targeted expression. Moreover, given the evolutionary conservation of such master regulatory genes, the results of the investigations in Drosophila can be directly and rapidly applied to the developing mouse brain where homologous genes are already cloned, or can be rapidly cloned based on the knowledge gained in Drosophila. In the mouse system, spatio-temporal gene expression studies, gene knockout technology, and modern neuroanatomical techniques can then be combined to investigate the functional role of these evolutionarily conserved genes in the embryonic development of the mammalian brain in a biomedically highly relevant model system.
Thus, by taking advantage of evolutionary conservation, by combining the specific experimental and conceptual advantages of the two model systems, Drosophila and mouse, and by assuring a rapid exchange of information, experimental data and molecular probes among the collaborating researchers involved, this innovative multi-disciplinary investigation will with high probability lead to a significant advance in our understanding of brain development. Moreover, the molecular genetic technology that we plan to implement in this investigation of neurogenetic model systems may lead to improved methods for diagnosis of neurological damage and for the gene technological reconstruction of damaged brain tissue in human patients.

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ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG
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