6th June Webinar summary
We had a great discussion on the topic circadian rhythm in fruit flies. We had almost 10-12 CUBists who had worked on circadian rhythm activity.
And by this activity, we got 2 peaks at some particular time.
We had a detailed discussion about the PER and the TIM genes and proteins involved in this circadian rhythm of fruit flies.
@Saida Elph CUBE gave a detailed explanation on what happens exactly or what is the mechanism of this rhythm!!?
What would happen if there would be mutations in these genes …and what would happen if there is no light?
Then how would this rhythm work?
We related the circadian rhythm of fruit flies with plants like cardamine, Phyllanthus…
@Saida Elph CUBE & all those who were there yesterday please elaborate and discuss on the questions mentioned above.
Then we moved on to @Hina Ma’am CUBE Kanpur ma’am and her news or updates of her fruit fly cultures.
She was surprised to see the larvae moving above the media and towards the cotton plug near the mouth of the bottle thinking that they are trying to escape…
But that was normal for some of us.
We had an experience of an abnormal behaviour of the larva and pupa in CUBE HBSCE.
We related this to the NS-PGeo flies… Native Single line - Positive Geotactic flies.
These flies as the name suggests had an abnormal behaviour where the larvae and pupae where in the media and near the media.
Here came the genetic drift where @deepika CUBE Bangalore started explaining this with examples.
@kavyahonnavad is having difficulty in identifying a fruit fly or distinguishing between a fruit fly and a house fly. @Drishtant gave a brief description of the distinguishing features between a fruit fly, butterfly, lion, house fly, moina.
Short summary by Abhijeet Singh: 
[8:48 am, 07/06/2020] @abhijeet singh :
Heyy everyone,
When I joined last there was the discussion going on between how does the pupa turns into fly. There was a discussion between Mayur bhaiya and Ashwathy and hina Ma’am on this topic and they came up with some amazing stuff like imaginal disc and all. And I think ashwathy has got some 1st generation flies from the pupae. So @Aswathy CUBE Thriprayar, Nattika and rest all working on drosophila model organism and can go further with this thing? More questions are be answered on development of flies from pupa. Did you started checking out how does this imaginal disc thing works? And how actually it forms.
We need an update on this topic as it is very interesting and important!!