Alicia Hidalgo

Interactive nervous system development: control of cell survival in Drosophila.

The control of cell number during central nervous system development in flies and mice.

Prospero maintains the mitotic potential of glial precursors enabling them to respond to neurons.

Coupling glial numbers and axonal patterns.

Neurotrophic and gliatrophic contexts in Drosophila.

The role of glial cells in axon guidance, fasciculation and targeting.

Lateral neuron--glia interactions steer the response of axons to the Robo code.

Two distinct mechanisms segregate Prospero in the longitudinal glia underlying the timing of interactions with axons.

Drosophila neurotrophins reveal a common mechanism for nervous system formation.

DeadEasy caspase: automatic counting of apoptotic cells in Drosophila.

1st Joint Meeting of the British and Spanish Developmental Biology Societies.

DeadEasy neurons: automatic counting of HB9 neuronal nuclei in Drosophila.

DeadEasy Mito-Glia: automatic counting of mitotic cells and glial cells in Drosophila.

Trophic neuron-glia interactions and cell number adjustments in the fruit fly.

The glial regenerative response to central nervous system injury is enabled by pros-notch and pros-NFκB feedback.

Dissection of adult Drosophila brains.

Antibody staining of the central nervous system in adult Drosophila.

X-gal staining of the central nervous system in adult Drosophila.

Hydroxyurea ablation of mushroom bodies in Drosophila.

Setup for functional cell ablation with lasers: coupling of a laser to a microscope.

Embryonic cell ablation in Drosophila using lasers.

Genetic systems for functional cell ablation in Drosophila.

TUNEL-antibody double-labeling method for Drosophila embryos.