Work place

1) Fresh tubes with sugar-based food that our Drosophila love.

2) Lamp or light source, which needs a push at the bulb-door to start running but gives a nice steady light until the electricity of the whole city goes down (every day at some point, especially if pours like yesterday).

3) Flies sleeping after breathing fly snooze, a stinky but effective way of putting flies to sleep without the headaches that ether gave me in my genetics class as an undergrad. Once they are sleeping, we can select males/ females, virgins/ old flies, and we can set up the experiments we need.

4) Since we don’t have a pad, the post-it pack is doing the job. One could work without it but, after a while hitting the bench with plastic tubes, the noise gets annoying and, sometimes, a bad move can mean a broken tube and goodbye dear flies.

5) THE brush, my friend, which needed some bandage work after arrival from California but is doing a great job.

6) The dissection scope, old and misaligned, but enough to get the virgins out of the tube before they do anything naughty with the wrong male

7) Trays with flies waiting to be taken care of or just enjoying life while we let them reproduce