Featherstone Lab Resources

The Fabulous Featherstone Lab Drosophila Sexulator

For those new to the lab

 

Other Resources

Bloomington Stock Center

Drosophila Genomics Resource Center

Vienna Drosophila RNAi center

Tucson stock center

Szeged stock center

Japanese National Institute of Genetics

Harvard Exelixis mutant collection

Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (Antibodies)

WWW Virtual Drosophila library (Lots of fly-specific links)

Nifty fonts (including a biological symbols font with male/female symbols)

 

Information/Methods

Anatomy: Atlas of Drosophila Development and Flybrain

FlyMove (intro to fly development)

Zinn lab primer on fly embryonic muscles & motor nerves

Andreas Prokop's pages on fly synapses

Real-time PCR: A nice description of basically exactly what we do in our lab

Interpreting Sequence Data & Sequence Data Troubleshooting

Textpresso for fly (full text literature search)

 

UIC Pages

UIC Research Resources Center (RRC)

UIC Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program

UIC Department of Biological Sciences

UIC Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience (LIN)

 

Organizations

Genetics Society of America

Society for Neuroscience

Databases, Bioinformatics, & Molecular Biology

Flybase (Drosophila Gene Database, links to more resources)

modENCODE (MODel organism ENCyclopedia Of Dna Elements)

BDGP (Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project)

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)

GeneTag and P-screen transposon insertion databases

VISTA Genome browser (home)

UniProt

ORF Finder and GENSCAN

European Bioinformatics Institute Services

CMS sequence comparison and homology search tools

Embnet bioinformatics

BCM Search Launcher (Baylor College of Medicine bioinformatics tools - nice multi alignment tools)

ExPASy (proteomics/bioinformatics tools)

PROSITE (protein domains)

Pitt's Molecular Toolbox and aBi online tool list

Primer3 (Never-fail primers)

Bellen Lab's Multiple Primer Design front-end for Primer 3

Restriction Enzyme site mapper

SMART protein domain finder

 

Advice & Information

Grad school survival guide (good advice!)

Good advice for postdocs: "Making the Right Moves"

Yet more advice (but be careful that you don't spend so much time worrying about how to do the job that you forget to actually DO THE JOB)

UIC Graduate College info for students

 

Chicago

Chicago transit - plan your trip around the city using public transport