Knockout of FoxP in adult Drosophila, using nsyb Gal4 gen-switch line 80699. Flies were kept for two days on RU486 food.

Recent wtb test

There often seems to be a strong preference for a side. The laser was off.

Flies often seem to have a strong preferenc for a side. In the imiage below the top fly was punished for left torque and survived, the fly below was punished for the right torque side and died.

Trails with drift

The repetition of the knockout experiment in adult flies indicates that FoxP is not required for learning in adult flies. (Exp = elav tubGal80>Cas9gFoxP)

I wanted to expand and look into some general behavior of the mbon-2 flies. Mostly as a complement to the already existing data.

-Introduced Sayani to the wonderful world of Drosophila

-Been doing some DTS coding

-Preparing flies to do optomotor response for Mathias Raß

I experienced some issues with the first batch of the UAS-TNT control flies, theyh ad a very low learning curve. The second batched looked fine but the still have a slightly lower learning PI during Test1 than I want.

Mean or median?

A highly hypothetical scenario of how the distribution of dwelling times could be. Even if unrealistic, it still illustrates the problem of using median instead of mean.

Plotting the dwelling times as means

Grouped analysis of dwelling times

Cumming estimation plot

Update on coditional FoxP manipulation. Either no manipulation at 18°c or switch to 30°c for adult flys.

Comparison between the old and the new Wtb data.