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

Fri Oct 2 13:35:37 UTC 2020

Dear All,
Many thanks Dr. Isabel,
Truly, it can be really challenging to have flies in Nigeria. I am usually under pressure with demands from more than 15 institutions that have visited us for training on the use of flies for research. The workshops organised by TReNDinAfrica and DrosAfrica in Nigeria have raised the interest and motivation of scientists. This also created Good Problem for us. Thus, we founded Drosophila Research and Training Centre DRTC with the following vision and mission:
DRTC Vision: To serve as a hub for the training of scientists in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa using Drosophila melanogaster as an alternative model to rodents.
DRTC Mission:• To drive the initiative for the use of Drosophila melanogaster at all educational levels.•  To ensure availability of different Drosophila stocks and conducive work space to scientists in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr Folarin has contacted us and we are making arrangement to get the flies, but the Covid stalled the process. We actually had the two flies, but we lost them when we didn't have incubators. But now, EMBL donated equipment to DRTC, which included 2 big incubators.
Just today, I sent email to Prof Kevin of Bloomington today (here copied) for clarifications on ordering directly to DRTC in Nigeria. We back up every strain received for future needs of scientists.  We intend to collate what the different institutions need, and order directly. Luckily, we have been receiving flies from Cambridge via Fedex which seems to work better. 
I can assure you that Dr Folarin will have the flies before the end of the year.
Thanks.
Amos
Amos AbolajiFor DRTChttps://twitter.com/DrosophilaRTC
Amos O. Abolaji PhDDepartment of Biochemistry,(Drug Metab. & Toxicology Unit),FBMS, College of Medicine,University of Ibadan,
Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
Tel: +234-806-861-4194 
ao.abolaji at ui.edu.ng

    On Friday, 2 October 2020, 14:10:41 GMT+1, Isabel Palacios <i.palacios at qmul.ac.uk> wrote:  

hi lucia

i think your collaborator should contact Amos in Ibadan, who may have some epilepsy flies already in Nigeria...maybe

 >> Abolaji Amos Amos <amos_abolaji at yahoo.com>

isa

 On 02/10/2020 13:57, Lucia Prieto-Godino wrote:

 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). 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
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 Promoting science in Africa
 www.TReNDinAfrica.org  

 Begin forwarded message: 
  From: Royhaan Folarin <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>
   Cc:  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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Queen Mary University of London
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