Ultrastructural investigation of DNA replication in Drosophila polytene chromosomes via super-resolution microscopy

• Applicant: Privatdozent Dr. Veit Schubert
• Subject Area: Cell Biology ; General Genetics and Functional Genome Biology ; Structural Biology
• Term: from 2020 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 429837513

The aim of the project is to study the spatio-temporal organization of replication in individual chromosome regions using super-resolution microscopy with D. melanogaster polytene chromosomes as a model.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Russia
• Partner Organisation: Russian Foundation for Basic Research, until 3/2022
• Cooperation Partner: Tatyana Kolesnikova, Ph.D., until 3/2022