College of Medicine
Ja Lab
Led by William Ja · Neuroscience
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What we study
The lab uses fruit flies to study how diet, gut microbes and genes affect health and lifespan. It also builds tools to measure how much flies eat and studies mutants with feeding problems. The lab is at UF Scripps in Jupiter, Florida, not on the Gainesville campus.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Fruit flies
- No coding
- Projects
- 2
Current projects
Microbes and host health
How microbes living with flies affect nutrition, health and aging.
Food intake tools
Methods to measure short- and long-term feeding in flies.
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