[Lfm] Does anyone have Httex1p Q93 and bang sensitive flies?

Fri Oct 2 12:57:12 UTC 2020

Dear all,

As many of you probably know I founded in 2011 a non-profit organisation to promote scientific research in the African continent (more info here: www.TReNDinAfrica.org<http://www.TReNDinAfrica.org>). We do a lot of activities and among them we organise advanced courses on Drosophila genetics and neuroscience for African researchers. One of our alumni in Nigeria has hit a roadblock, as many of us have, because it seems impossible to get flies from Bloomington at the moment (please read email below). He is looking for flies model for Huntington disease (UAS-elav>Httex1p Q93) and bang-sensitive flies to use as models for epilepsy. I do not have these stocks in my lab, but I would be very thankful if someone could help him out (he is cced so you can contact him directly if you can help).

Thanks!

Lucia

PS. We are also remastering our equipment donation programme in a new collaboration with the International Brain Research Organisation, so if you would like to help researchers in Africa through donations of unused equipment at your universities, or wish to contribute to TReND in any other way please do email me directly. More info also in this recent paper we published: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30480-3

Lucia Prieto-Godino, PhD
Neural Circuits and Evolution lab
The Francis Crick Institute
1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT
www.prietogodinolab.org<http://www.prietogodinolab.org>
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Promoting science in Africa
www.TReNDinAfrica.org

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From: Royhaan Folarin <roy.abulkhayr at gmail.com<mailto:roy.abulkhayr at gmail.com>>
Subject: My Need for Huntington's & Epileptic Flies
Date: 2 October 2020 at 13:23:59 BST
To: Lucia Prieto-Godino <lucia.prietogodino at crick.ac.uk<mailto:lucia.prietogodino at crick.ac.uk>>
Cc:  M.Bukar-Maina at sussex.ac.uk<mailto:M.Bukar-Maina at sussex.ac.uk>

Dear Dr. Lucia,

I hope you're doing great and keeping safe in this trying time. We hope for further ease.

Like I once updated you after the TReND workshop in Ghana, I am currently working on some mutant and transgenic drosophila flies with a group of students who have been assigned to my supervision. We already acquired some Alzheimer's ( Aβ42 ) and Parkinson's (h-αS) models through Dr Mahmoud's networks thankfully. However, we currently need some *Huntington’s* stocks (UAS-elav>Httex1p Q93) and any of the  bang-sensitive (BS) *Epilepsy* group of Drosophila mutants.

Due to the lock down, some labs which had some of these flies unfortunately lost them to some technical glitches, while some persisting International travel restrictions remains a hindrance for some to order the flies from Bloomington. I thus wish for your assistance in getting these flies through your contacts while I'll be happy to pay for the shipping. Getting these flies would be especially helpful and fulfilling to these students (10 of them) who have been prepared with respective objectives to investigate in the flies as their final year research project.

I discussed this earlier with Dr. Mahmoud, who suggested my sending you this email in hope for some assistance through your connections.

I'd thus be glad to hear from you soon.

Thank you

Royhaan

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