Tag Archives: Drosophila

PhD position in Drosophila biology – Germany

By | March 10, 2022

PhD student will investigate in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster how maternal “vaping” affects body and airway development in the F1 generation and elucidate the underlying molecular pathways in isolated airways. Additionally, you will do histological analysis to assess airway morphological changes in the airways. Please apply (without photo) to Prof. Susanne Krauss-Etschmann by April 4th, 2022 via our… Read More »

Postdoc position in Drosophila neurobiology – Tzumin lab Michigan

By | February 18, 2022

Lee (Tzumin) Lab is keen to determine the cellular complexity of the brain, to elucidate how numerous distinct neurons can derive from a limited number of progenitors, and to possibly re engineer the brain for understanding its structure, function and evolution. Great new postdoc opportunity to use sophisticated genetic tools to reconstruct the brain with… Read More »

PhD position in Drosophila neurobiology @ Manchester UK

By | January 8, 2022

A PhD position is available to study bundles of microtubules (MT) that run all along axons in Drosophila brain. The decay of MT bundle decay causes axon degeneration and mechanism underlying this phenomenon forms the basis of this project. More details and link to apply: How to apply: https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/research/bbsrc-dtp/apply Application deadline: 21 January 2022 Interviews: week commencing… Read More »

Postdoc position in Extavour Lab – Drosophila, evodevo

By | January 6, 2022

Post doctoral positions are available in Cassandra Extavour lab at Harvard. Positions to work on two major areas of our research are available: Holobiome Area: Understanding the animal, plant and microbial contributions to the evolution of specific adaptive traits and phenotypic plasticity, using both Drosophila melanogaster and natural populations of wild Drosophila species in Hawaii.… Read More »

How to prepare Hoyer’s medium for Drosophila cuticle preparations

By | January 4, 2022

Importance of cuticle preparations in Drosophila studies: The Drosophila embryonic ventral epidermis has served as a unique tissue for the genetic analysis of patterning. There are two different types of epidermal cells in the ventral epidermis which can be easily distinguished: those that secrete short, thick hair-like structures called denticles and cells that only secrete… Read More »

How to know chromosomal location of a transgenic construct by using a genetic cross ?

By | July 1, 2021

When we generate a new transgene, the first thing which needs to be done is to map its chromosomal location. This can be done at molecular level by performing Inverse Polymerase chain Reaction (iPCR) and subsequent sequencing. It is also possible to efficiently map the P-element insertion (transgene) by doing a simple cross genetic crosses… Read More »

Nobel Prizes for studying Drosophila

By | June 21, 2021

The contribution of Drosophila melanogaster as a invertebrate model in understanding basic aspects of biology is immense. This eventually led to many landmark findings, enabling us to unravel many biological puzzles and find cure for many human diseases. Thanks to the continuous efforts of many scientists and their co-workers, has helped in widening the scope… Read More »

How to balance and generate new fly stocks for genetic crosses

By | June 19, 2021

Drosophila melanogaster was introduced as a model organism more than a century ago. However it was the pioneering work of Thomas Hunt Morgan and his graduate students Sturtevant and Bridges have revolutionized the field of Drosophila genetics and laid the foundation for the present day Invertebrate powerhouse for studying development, physiology and behavior. Since more… Read More »

How to make a recombinant fly line

By | June 14, 2021

Ease of doing genetic experiments makes Drosophila an excellent model system to study development and disease. The reasons for ease in setting up genetic crosses and its subsequent interpretation of results can be attributed to many efficient genetic tools, balancer chromosomes, innumerable genetic markers with clear visible phenotype, mutants for many genes and less number… Read More »

Gal4-UAS system and effect of temperature

By | June 6, 2021

GAL4- UAS system is definitely one of the widely used genetic tool for targeted gene expression in Drosophila. It can be used for both gain of function and loss of function genetic experiments. The wide applicability and everyday use of the system can be attributed to its simple design and availability of lots of reagents… Read More »