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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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