As well as supporting the ground forces in Normandy and continuing to bomb V-1 flying bomb launch facilities in northern France, Bomber Command attacked railway facilities in France during July and August, and at least one of the Australian heavy bomber squadrons participated in 15 of the 25 raids conducted against these targets.
Its Fly Facility is run by one of Ashburner's former PhD students, Simon Collier, who showed me around the labs and fly storage of the facility.
In a series of rooms in the Fly Facility of the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University, around 5m fruit flies are kept in test tubes at any given time.
Further crossing of G0 flies, screening of the transformants and balancing of insertions performed at the Transgenic Fly Facility at C-CAMP facility at NCBS campus, Bangalore, India.
This training package is being successfully applied at the Manchester fly facility and may serve as a model for further training resources covering other aspects of fly research.
Transgenic lines were generated either by Genetic Services, Inc., Cambridge, MA, Bestgene, Inc., Chino Hills, CA or the Fly Facility in the Department of Genetics, Cambridge, UK.
A small proportion of microinjections for Drosophila transgenesis were performed by the fly facility injection service of the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Pupae of Glossina morsitans morsitans were obtained from Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Science (Bratislava, Slovakia) and maintained at the WCMP tsetse fly facility, University of Glasgow.
It was developed over many years of teaching Drosophila mating schemes to undergraduate students and, since 2009, has been adapted and successfully established as a standard procedure to train new group members joining the Manchester fly facility.
After transformation, the orientation of the insert was checked by restriction digestion and the correct clone was sent to Transgenic Fly Facility (TFF, C-CAMP, Bangalore) for generating transgenic lines.
