Fly Facility
The Drosophila Stock Centre and Media Facility (Fly facility) at IISER Pune has three major roles:
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Supply Drosophila growth media to IISER Pune users: The research groups of Prof. Shashidhara, Dr. Rikhy, Dr. Ratnaparkhi, Prof. Galande and Prof. Dey are supported by this facility. In 2020, ~1250 liters of media (1.5 Lakh vials and 20000 bottles) was generated and supplied to the constituent labs.
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Maintain >6000 Drosophila Stocks for research and teaching: The stocks are kept in duplicate copies in an 18 °C Stock room. The lines are also shared/supplied to researchers all over India upon request. Approximately 2000 lines were shipped to Colleges/Universities/Research Institutes all over India during the period of 2015 to 2020.
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Receive and redistribute transgenic and mutant stocks from Bloomington Drosophila Research facility (BDSC), Indiana, United States, to Drosophila labs in India: In the last 3 years, ~1000 lines were procured from BDSC for 38 non-IISER research groups and distributed to these laboratories as a service.
Fly Stock


Fly Maintainance
Fermentors
