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Equipment
For maintenance and basic phenotype analysis:
- Two workstations with stereo microscopes, external light sources and CO2 system for anesthetizing flies.
- Humidity- and light-controlled fly incubators at varying temperatures (18°C, 25°C, 29°C).
For experimental setup:
- Stereo microscopes for imaging flies/larvae, including mobile camera setup for taking color pictures of flies and/or their dissected tissues.
- Axiovert brightfield microscope with phase contrast and fluorescence equipment, includes light sources for sorting green and red fluorescent flies/larvae
- Inverted microscope for imaging fly samples prepared on microscope slides
- MiniHypoxia chambers with adjustable O2 levels for hypoxia studies.
- Water baths for heat shock treatments at the department
- Equipment of handling, dissecting and preparing samples
![Researcher working in lab with fly unit.](https://www.abo.fi/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/fly-unit-researcher-225x300.jpg)