About the Birmingham Fly Facility

The Birmingham Fly Facility has, as well as standard wet-labs, microscopy rooms and access to confocal microscopes:

• Fly-rooms for genetics and fly-pushing
• Sorting UV/LED dissecting microscopes for selecting fluorescently tagged flies
• Behaviour labs
• Transgenesis station in a temperature-controlled 18°C room, comprising:
  a fly incubator, a dissecting microscopy to align the eggs, and an inverted microscope for the injections with a micromanipulator operated by a pump and a needle puller.
• Fly stock room, temperature-controlled at 18°C
• Fly kitchen for making fly-food

Our laboratories are housed in open-plan shared spaces that encourage daily interaction among students and postdoctoral researchers, making the exchange of expertise easy. We share lab facilities, equipment, experimental setups, and technical resources. 

Birmingham Fly Facility Kitchen

A dedicated team of technicians carries out:

• Fly-food making and disposal (including autoclaving of waste).
• Orders of fly-food reagents (vials, cotton, flugs, food components, etc).

Birmingham Fly Facility Kitchen Manager: Shrikant Jondhale

For all enquiries on sales and products, please contact Mr Jondhale at: S.Jondhale@bham.ac.uk 

We organise seminars and symposia collaboratively, both within our team and with other groups across the West Midlands, including colleagues from Aston, Leicester, Nottingham, and Warwick universities.

We are a thriving community and engage on regular outreach events together, to explain to the general public the awesome power of Drosophila genetics in biomedical research.