János Szabad

TL;DR: A gain-of-function mutation in rolled is identified (rlSevenmaker [rlSem], which encodes a homolog of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase, which activation of MAP kinase by the rlSem mutation is both necessary and sufficient to activate multiple signaling pathways controlled by receptor tyrosine kinases.

TL;DR: The tor gain-of-function effect is neutralized, and segmentation is restored in double mutants with the zygotic gene tailless4,5 (tll), which has a phenotype similar to that of tor–, suggesting that tor acts through tll, and that in the gain- of-function alleles of tor, the tll gene product is ectopically expressed at middle positions of the embryo, where it inhibits the expression of segmentation genes like ftz.

TL;DR: X-ray-induced mitotic recombination was used to follow the development and function of the female germ line in Drosophila melanogaster and indicated that the stem cell divisions characteristic of the adult period have begun shortly after pupation.

TL;DR: It is shown that starvation induces autophagy in germline cells (GCs) and in follicle cells (FCs) in Drosophila ovaries and this process is mediated by the ATG machinery and involves the upregulation of Atg genes, and it is demonstrated that insulin/TOR signaling controls autophagic in FCs and GCs.

TL;DR: Injection of bovine TPPP/p25 into cleavage Drosophila embryos expressing tubulin–GFP fusion protein reveals that TPPP-p25 inhibits mitotic spindle assembly and nuclear envelope breakdown without affecting other cellular events like centrosome replication and separation, microtubule nucleation by the centrosomes, and nuclear growth.