Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are utilised as a model organism for studying complex behaviour such as sleep, learning and memory, aggression, social behaviour, but also to investigate disease.
However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive coherent packages that allow scientific labs to experiment, track and analyse fruit flies in a high-throughput manner with a simple plug-and-play system.
BFK addresses this gap by providing hardware and software solutions for Drosophila behavioural investigations. The primary objective of BFK is to offer the following solutions for your experimental investigations:
Our team offers the combined expertise from the fields of engineering, instrument design, computational neuroscience, and behavioural science to provide hardware and software equipment that can cater to your research needs. Based on our original publication “How deeply does your mutant sleep? Probing arousal to better understand sleep defects in Drosophila”, we developed equipment specific for high-throughput use built around the DART software.
DURABLE AND RELIABLE EQUIPMENT FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS.
USER-FRIENDLY SOFTWARE PACKAGES FOR HIGH-EFFICACY TRACKING, AND ANALYSIS/VISUALISATION OF LARGE DATASETS.
SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE IN DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS.