News Releases & Research Results Recording of fly’s life cycle events with “DIAMonDS” - Development of a monitoring and detection system for Drosophila individual activities -

The results of research and development conducted by Collaborative Researcher (at the time of the study) Ki-Hyeon Seong of the Cellular Memory Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Assistant Professor Siu Kang and Postdoctoral Fellow Taishi Matsumura (at the time of the study) of Yamagata University, and Professor Ryusuke Niwa and Assistant Professor Yuko Shimada of University of Tsukuba.

• “Drosophila Individual Activity Monitoring and Detection System (DIAMonDS)” was developed for automatically identifying the transition time points of life cycle events, such as pupariation, eclosion, and death, in individual flies on a large scale.
• “DIAMonDS” consists of relatively inexpensive commercially available materials, with independently developed software installed to allow low-cost and high-precision measurement.
• The results of this R&D project should promote various studies on a model organism, Drosophila, and be applied to medicine and agriculture, including toxicity experiments and drug discovery.

This project was conducted with the support of the Advanced Research & Development Programs for Medical Innovation (AMED-CREST) by AMED.

The results were published online in the scientific journal eLife on November 10.

Ki-Hyeon Seong, et al. The Drosophila Individual Activity Monitoring and Detection System (DIAMonDS) eLife
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.58630