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LinkedInPosts Tagged: Drosophila
'How Flies Control How They Walk by Knowing When and How to Stop'
What a catchy title for a seminar: "How Flies Control How They Walk by Knowing When and How to Stop." Meet Salil Bidaye, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, Fla. He studies neuronal control locomotion in fruit flies, Drosophila--focusing his...
Orie Shafer: Researching the Sleep of a Fruit Fly
Did you know that the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a powerful model organism for the study of sleep regulation? It's long been a model organism for biological research in such fields as genetics, physiology, microbial pathogenesis and life history evolution. And now, a New York...
A fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, feeding on a banana. (Photo by Sanjay Acharya, Wikipedia)
Katie Thompson-Peer: Fruit Flies as a Model to Study Dendrite Regeneration
The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is widely used for biological research. That's true for assistant professor Katie Thompson-Peer of the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, UC Irvine, who will speak on "Cellular Mechanisms of Dendrite Regeneration after...
This is the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that Katie Thompson-Peer uses in her biological research. (Photo by André Karwath, Wikipedia)
Christine Tabuloc's Seminar: Inside Her Intricate Research World of Drosophila
(Editor's Note: Her exit seminar is here) Remember the spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii? Native to Southeast Asia, it infests soft-skinned fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, cherries, blueberries, blackberries, peaches and grapes. Scientists first detected it in the United...
A spotted-wing drosphila, Drosophila suzukii, targeting a raspberry. Native to Southeast Asia, it infests soft-skinned fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, cherries, blueberries, blackberries, peaches and grape. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Time Flies, But How Do Flies Tell Time? Ask Yao Cai
If you attended the 2018 campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day and headed over to see the insects at Briggs Hall, home of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, you may have seen an enthusiastic drummer performing in The Entomology Band. That was molecular geneticist Yao Cai, entertaining with...
Yao Cai dressed as a fruit fly to play the drums in The Entomology Band at the 2018 UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Molecular geneticist Yao Cai (left) presents a program at a 2020 Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. With him is undergraduate student Christopher Ocoa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
