The BDSC collects, maintains and distributes Drosophila melanogaster strains for research.
Why fruit flies?
Drosophila melanogaster is:
• used to study complex biological processes, including many directly relevant to human health and disease
• a versatile and elegant model organism with excellent genetic manipulability, ease of culture, and low cost
• unmatched for its genetic technologies enabling experiments that are difficult to do in other organisms
Why the BDSC?
The BDSC is the largest and most comprehensive collection of Drosophila strains in the world. As a centralized resource, we enable researchers to focus on discovery by providing:
• a wide variety of sophisticated genetic tools
• a common resource to improve scientific rigor and reproducibility
• stable maintenance of strains with effective quality control and the benefits of economies of scale
New Stocks - Investigate cell interactions using EyaHOST
The EyaHOST system, from the Rusten lab, utilizes the QF2–QUAS system to make clones leaving the GAL4–UAS system free for manipulating cells and tissues in other ways. It thus enables independent genetic control of two cell populations allowing their interactions to be studied. For more information, see our EyaHost page.
BDSC News
Announcing the Kathy Matthews Endowment
We are excited to announce that Lawrence Washington, husband of the late Kathy Matthews, has established an endowment for the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center in her honor.
The limestone fly carving pictured above was created by Amy Brier - http://www.amybrier.com.