ERC Starting Grant · 2016
Quantifying behavioural phenotype space: chemistry-to-gene screens and combination therapies
A central goal of precision medicine is to tailor treatments for individuals based on their genomic sequence. However, many common diseases are associated with mutations in multiple genes and drugs often interact with multiple targets, making it difficult to go from genome sequence to drug selection. Spontaneous locomotion in the nematode C. elegans provides a model to address fundamental questions about the mapping between chemical and genetic perturbation and complex phenotypes. To take full advantage of this potentially powerful model system, we will develop high-throughput tracking technology, both hardware and software, and use it to measure changes in worm behaviour in response to…
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