Category: Lab

Tips on maintaining fruitflies by yourself! »

Undergraduate Lab Tips on maintaining fruitflies by yourself!   Recipe for flies:  Yummy!!! Water  50L Agar   470g Sucrose   1580g Glucose   3160g Preservative   142g Doxycycline  (antibiotics)  2.1g Amoxicillin   (antibiotics)   4.16g sodium tartrate (it is an emulsifier used in food like jellies)     438g calcium chloride   36.3g maize powder       3885g Of course, you may change the amount according [...]

Research »

  Undergraduate Lab at Tsinghua University Research   Alzheimer’s disease, or AD We have transgenic flies which express human Aβ42 or its mutant forms, which can be directly driven in fly neurons using UAS-GAL4 gene switch. These flies have defects in olfactory learning, memory and lifespan. Amyloid deposits and neurodegeneration appear when they get old, [...]

Lab apparatus »

Undergraduate Lab at Tsinghua University Lab apparatus Brain section Cross section of fly head (left), and the machine for slicing and embedding the sample (right). Brain section helps to reveal neurodegeneration in neurological diseases and protein spatial expression through immunohistochemistry.   Genetic tools and fluorescent microscopy With the UAS-GAL4 system and other gene switches, we [...]