FinMIT laboratories, IBT Tampere

Name of resource
FinMIT laboratories, IBT Tampere
Name of Principal Investigator

Title	Professor
First name	Howy
Last name	Jacobs

Address of institution where award is held

Institution	University of Tampere
Street Address	University of Tampere
City	University of Tampere
Postcode	33014

Country

Finland

Website
finmit.org
Contact email
[email protected]
Summary
We have various Drosophila strains created to study the effects of expressing alternative respiratory chain enzymes on flies. Because Drosophila strains are freely available to the global research community after publication, and archived in flybase, we do not list them here in any special way.
1a. The resource holds animal models relevant to the study of the following neurodegenerative diseases

Neurodegenerative disease in general

1b. The resource holds:

Animals

Genetic material (DNA, RNA, vectors etc)

2a. The resource acts as a centre for access and distribution to external groups (who are not the PIs of the resource)

2b. Procedures and rules for access

International access

3a. Does the resource develop animal models for external groups
1
3b. Types of models provided

Not applicable

4a This activity is supported as:

Not applicable

4b. The supplied material deposited in a central repository
2
5a Disease models available

Disease	Species	Available to external user (Y/N)	Full phenotypic character (Y/N or partial)	Phenotypes	Genotypes or other subtypes
All	Drosophila	Y	Partial	published	published

6. European or international consortia or networks to which the resource is linked

Jackson Laboratories, USAInternational mouse knockout consortium

Bloomington and other global stick centres

7a. Maintenance of the resource is dependent on continued funding
2
7b. End date of current funding period
2013
7c. Expected lifespan of the resource (in years)
20

FinMIT laboratories, IBT Tampere

Experimental Models
Finland
Neurodegenerative disease in general
2011