We are hiring! We are looking for strong candidates for research technician positions at entry and senior levels, as well as for a strong candidate to join our bioinformatics team. Details on the Perrimon lab website. Questions can be directed to Stephanie Mohr, Jonathan Zirin, or Claire Yanhui Hu. Job inquiries and resumes can be sent to Jonathan Zirin. Read more about Join our team!

Thank you to all those who attended our workshop at last week's Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Philadelphia, PA, USA. It was great to talk fly stocks, cell screens, and bioinformatics with the community. We are here to help and look forward to continued feedback on the resources we are building to empower your research. PDFs of our workshop presentations are attached to this news item. The slides will help you learn more about our in vivo resources for CRISPR, new pooled cell-based CRISPR screen technology, and bioinformatics resources at our facility.  Feel free to contact... Read more about Missed us at ADRC 2018? View our workshop slides!

The DRSC/TRiP-FGR is pleased to support collaborations on pooled CRISPR screens using the method recently reported in a BioRxiv pre-print by Viswanatha et al. From the abstract: "... Here, we developed a site-specific integration strategy for library delivery and performed a genome-wide CRISPR knockout screen in Drosophila S2R+ cells. Under basal growth conditions, 1235 genes were essential for cell fitness at a false-discovery rate of 5...

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