Boris August Egger

boris.egger@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 8881
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8551-9140

Senior Researcher, Department of Biology

PER 05 bu. 0.340G
Ch. du Musée 10
1700 Fribourg

Hours of presence:
Monday: morning and afternoon
Tuesday: morning and afternoon
Wednesday: morning
Thursday: morning and afternoon
Friday: morning and afternoon

PER 05, 0.340G

+41 26 300 8881

Head of Bioimage Core Facility

Lecturer in Light Microscopy

Lecturer in Neurogenetics

Head of Technical Service

Research and publications

Publications

34 publications

Atypical soluble guanylyl cyclases control brain size in Drosophila
microPublication Biology (2024) | Journal article

Neurogenetics: Current Topics in Cellular and Developmental Neurobiology
, ed. by Boris Egger (Springer International Publishing, 2023), ISBN: 9783031077920 | Book

A FRET-based cGMP biosensor in Drosophila
microPublication Biology (2023) | Journal article

Mms19 promotes spindle microtubule assembly in Drosophila neural stem cells
PLOS Genetics (2020) | Journal article

Compartment and cell-type specific hypoxia responses in the developing Drosophila brain
Biology Open (2020) | Journal article

Live Cell Imaging of Neural Stem Cells in the Drosophila Larval Brain , in Methods in Molecular Biology
Karolina Miszczak and Boris Egger (Springer New York, 2020), ISBN: 9781493997312 | Book chapter

Injured Axons Instruct Schwann Cells to Build Constricting Actin Spheres to Accelerate Axonal Disintegration
Cell Reports (2019) | Journal article

Super-Resolution STED and STORM/PALM Microscopy for Brain Imaging , in Advanced Optical Methods for Brain Imaging
Boris Egger and Simon G. Sprecher (Springer Singapore, 2019), ISBN: 9789811090196 | Book chapter

Dynamic Notch signalling regulates neural stem cell state progression in the Drosophila optic lobe
Neural Development (2018) | Journal article

Multiple neurons encode CrebB dependent appetitive long-term memory in the mushroom body circuit
eLife (2018) | Journal article

Patterning mechanisms diversify neuroepithelial domains in the Drosophila optic placode
PLOS Genetics (2018) | Journal article

The Microcephaly-Associated Protein Wdr62/CG7337 Is Required to Maintain Centrosome Asymmetry in Drosophila Neuroblasts
Cell Reports (2016) | Journal article

A genetically encoded biosensor for visualizing hypoxia responsesin vivo
Biology Open (2016) | Journal article

HDAC1/2-Dependent P0 Expression Maintains Paranodal and Nodal Integrity Independently of Myelin Stability through Interactions with Neurofascins
PLOS Biology (2015) | Journal article

Characterization of tailless functions during Drosophila optic lobe formation
Developmental Biology (2015) | Journal article

Analysis of the expression patterns, subcellular localisations and interaction partners of Drosophila proteins using a pigP protein trap library
Development (2014) | Journal article

Immunofluorescent Labeling of Neural Stem Cells in the Drosophila Optic Lobe , in Methods in Molecular Biology
Benjamin Perruchoud and Boris Egger (Humana Press, 2014), ISBN: 9781627036542 | Book chapter

Cell-Type-Specific Profiling of Gene Expression and Chromatin Binding without Cell Isolation: Assaying RNA Pol II Occupancy in Neural Stem Cells
Developmental Cell (2013) | Journal article

In vitro imaging of primary neural cell culture from Drosophila
Nature Protocols (2013) | Journal article

Analysis of cell identity, morphology, apoptosis and mitotic activity in a primary neural cell culture system in Drosophila
Neural Development (2012) | Journal article

Regulating the balance between symmetric and asymmetric stem cell division in the developing brain.
Fly (2011) | Journal article

Notch regulates the switch from symmetric to asymmetric neural stem cell division in the Drosophila optic lobe.
Development (Cambridge, England) (2010) | Journal article

Cell proliferation in the Drosophila adult brain revealed by clonal analysis and bromodeoxyuridine labelling.
Neural development (2009) | Journal article

Asymmetric stem cell division: lessons from Drosophila.
Seminars in cell & developmental biology (2008) | Journal article

Regulation of self-renewal and differentiation in the Drosophila nervous system.
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology (2008) | Journal article

Insights into neural stem cell biology from flies.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences (2008) | Journal article

Regulation of spindle orientation and neural stem cell fate in the Drosophila optic lobe.
Neural development (2007) | Journal article

The egghead gene is required for compartmentalization in Drosophila optic lobe development.
Developmental biology (2005) | Journal article

Transcriptional signature of an adult brain tumor in Drosophila.
BMC genomics (2004) | Journal article

Gliogenesis in Drosophila: genome-wide analysis of downstream genes of glial cells missing in the embryonic nervous system.
Development (Cambridge, England) (2002) | Journal article

Functional equivalence of Hox gene products in the specification of the tritocerebrum during embryonic brain development of Drosophila.
Development (Cambridge, England) (2001) | Journal article

Identification of candidate downstream genes for the homeodomain transcription factor Labial in Drosophila through oligonucleotide-array transcript imaging.
Genome biology (2001) | Journal article

Quantitative transcript imaging in normal and heat-shocked Drosophila embryos by using high-density oligonucleotide arrays.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2000) | Journal article

Bioimage Core Facility
Boris Egger , unifr | Other

Teaching and courses

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