I’ve been several times to the annual Drosophila Research Conference put on by the Genetics Society of America. It’s a remarkable meeting, bringing together around 1500 fly researchers for talks, panels, and perhaps most importantly, ad hoc discussions about their
Case Study: Creating a Fruit Fly Larva Repositioning Robot for the Klein Lab
About a year ago, FlySorter took on a consulting project for the Klein Lab at the University of Miami, in Florida. Mason Klein uses Drosophila larvae to study biophysics and neuroscience, often with the same simple setup: a sheet of agar gel