While flies are an amazing model organism for so many different reasons, they need to be kept alive. So when lockdown happened last spring, “what about my flies?” was a question in the fly community. So many researchers brought their fly stocks home with them, hosting their new guests in bathrooms, spare bedrooms, and garages. I luckily was authorized to go into campus every couple weeks to make food and flip stocks, but a set of essential stocks still became our new pandemic roommates.
Later in the summer, I still had limited lab access (and child care), but was itching to get some of our work up and running. Enter the creation of the home fly lab.
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