Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, breeds abundantly in laboratory conditions. The animals are easy to rear and studying them has elucidated many mysteries in various fields of biology. Labs working with Drosophila Verstreken Lab Laboratory of neuronal communication Aerts Lab Laboratory of computational biology Jordanova Lab Halder Lab Liu Lab Laboratory of Sleep and Synaptic Plasticity Van Den Bosch Lab Laboratory of neurobiology