The Janelia Fly Facility has discarded most Gen1 GAL4 and LexA lines as of the end of 2022. Many of these lines are available from Korea, Bloomington, or Vienna stock centers.
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- Anatomy and Histology
- Cryo-Electron Microscopy
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- Flow Cytometry
- Fly Facility
- Gene Targeting and Transgenics
- Immortalized Cell Line Culture
- Integrative Imaging
- Janelia Experimental Technology
- Mass Spectrometry
- Media Prep
- Molecular Genomics
- Primary & iPS Cell Culture
- Project Pipeline Support
- Project Technical Resources
- Quantitative Genomics
- Scientific Computing Software
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- Viral Tools
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Support Teams / Fly Facility
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What We Do
The Fly Facility provides support services for researchers working with Drosophila, C. elegans, and Bombus impatiens. Our team provides a range of services including stock maintenance, fly pushing (stock constructions, screens, experimental crosses, or virgin collection), microinjection, shipping and receiving, quarantine, and other custom services.
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Equipment
2 types of Fly Flipping Robots
- One includes AI to help check for quantity of flies and eggs per vial
- Dissection scopes and fluorescent scopes available for lab use
Services
Drosophila
- Stock maintenance with robots
- Maximum capacity around 40K unique stocks that we keep in duplicate.
- Fly Pushing (Stock Constructions; Screening; Experimental Crosses; Virgin Collection, etc)
- Virginator Distribution
- Shipping and Receiving Stocks
- Help with Inventory Management or Label Generation
- Help with injection – either internally or outsourcing
- Online ordering system for fly stocks
- Quarantine / Monitoring of quarantined fly work spaces
- Custom requests welcome
C. elegans
- Strain maintenance and inventory database
- Freezing and thawing strains for storage in -80 and with LN2
- Microinjection (coming soon)
- Service will include screening and integration of stocks
- Worm transfers
- Worm crosses or screening via phenotype or fluorescence
- Shipping and Receiving Strains
- Online ordering system for worm strains (coming soon)
- Custom requests welcome
Bombus impatiens
- Colony maintenance (coming soon)
- Custom requests welcome
FileMaker Database
- Help setting up a relational database
- Some basic templates are available
- Help setting up label generation for your lab
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