piggyBac News and Events

 

5/7/02

The start of the new piggyBac website supported by University of Notre Dame. Please send us any information related to piggyBac research to share with the community.

5/24/02

The new piggyBac discussion forum is on today. Everybody is welcome to post messages relevant to research with  piggyBac and transgenesis.

5/8/03

The newly tested piggyBac minimal vector pXL-Bac II and pXL-BacII-ECFP sequences and maps have been placed on the web. They are in a more traditional format with a transformation frequency up to 25% in Drosophila melanogaster system.

11/6/03

The piggyBac helper strain for Drosophila melanogaster is now available online. It has a piggyBac transposase under control of Drosophila hsp70 promoter and introduced by P element, and has been fully characterized.