The measuring device needed repairing, after aperently some glued part got loosloosened and produced no signal anymore. The divice is now producing a signal again, but it is shifted.

The direction of the fly seems to be the main thing. Same fly faceing to the laser (left) and away (right)

• Added a timer
• Previous version generated faulty xml files. This bug has been squashed (see image below)
• Display window of the software now also prints which direction the striped arena turns

Control cross of UAS-Cas9;UAS-gFoxP with ELAV-GAL4;UAS-Cas9 is working. Flys are not able to fly and are walking poorly.

Control cross of Hs-Gal4 with UAS-Stinger is still not working.

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

First data of conditional FoxP temperature switch in adult flys

Proof of concept. I was playing around with ImageJ and found that there is a built in function already that does analyze the fluorescence intensity. I am just not sure exactly what it tells us. This is only as far as I have gotten yet.
The image below is the one I used.

The code generates the dwelling time for each period as well as the median dwelling time for each period. The code has also been implemented on grouped data but it only generates graphs for one of the groups, not both. Currently investigating why

I have been sorting and feeding flies ATR (in total about 7400 flies divided between 170 vials). Emer has been conducting the experiments during the previous week continuing this week.
Including the flies from today we have a total of 172 experiments divided between 7 experimental groups. Including the data from the Turkish students it is well over 230.

I looked at the control experiments and they look as expected. Perhaps even better than what the Turkish students had.