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| Insect neurobiology symposium in Munich, session 3 |
| This third session was right after the one I was in. I had been talking about the mutant radish and how it changes the attention and activity of the flies. It started at 8.30pm, showing the dedication of all the particip...[more] |
| drosophila neurobiology meeting mushroom-bodies |
| Posted on Friday 11 December 2009 - 21:52:25 |
| Let the onslaught begin |
| It is done! Our paper on spontaneous activity in Drosophila fruit flies is finally out in PLoS One. Almost 4 years of hard work in the can! Phew! And the media reports are already starting to pour in: New Scientist, ...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media coverage |
| Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2007 - 09:55:54 |
| Fantastic Drosophila pics |
I just stumbled across this great site with many awesome pictures of the fruit fly Drosophila. It is by photographer James Waters at Arizona State University and it is full with Drosophila closeups like this one: ...[more] |
| Drosophila pictures fun |
| Posted on Wednesday 19 March 2008 - 17:43:24 |
| Dopamine everywhere |
| The third session here at the Janelia Farm Conference “Learning and Memory: A Synthesis of Flies and Honeybees” covered the action of dopamine. Hiromu Tanimoto started with his experiments trying to identify the dopami...[more] |
| drosophila dopamine aversive learning memory ARM oscillations spontaneous activity |
| Posted on Monday 16 May 2011 - 21:32:47 |
| more media requests |
| After the last post, I received media queries from the German Berliner Zeitung and from G1, the news website from the Globo Organizations, the largest media conglomerate in Brazil (5th largest in the world). UPDATE: We no...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media |
| Posted on Tuesday 15 May 2007 - 08:27:01 |
| Symposium: Molecular Neuroethology in Drosophila: Methods, advances, and limitations |
 This is a symposium I've been looking forward to. The worse is that I'm still hunting down my posters which have gone missing during the flight here. Apparently, they have been delivered, but not to the hotel where I'm ...[more] |
| Drosophila neuroethology meeting |
| Posted on Wednesday 25 July 2007 - 20:23:04 |
| media frenzy continues |
| After spending a good part of the past weekend (actually all of it except the time I needed to play our game this past Sunday and preparing for today's experiments) answering questions from journalists about our upcoming...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media |
| Posted on Monday 14 May 2007 - 15:08:27 |
| ... and now for our latest fruit fly flight simulator video |
| Originally, it was planned to release our latest video on the Drosophila flight simulator with an article I wrote for the website of BBC radio show "The Naked Scientists". However, I now was invited to contribute to the ...[more] |
| Drosophila flight simulator video fun flight science |
| Posted on Sunday 08 June 2008 - 23:05:30 |
| The fruit fly Drosophila as a biological model system |
| This is an interview with my very esteemed colleague Charalambos 'Bambos' Kyriacou at his university where he studies the biological rhythms in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. I look forward to telling him how aw...[more] |
| drosophila kyriacou video |
| Posted on Tuesday 27 September 2011 - 11:45:43 |
| Free will is a popular topic |
| What surprising effects a press-release can have. Our paper on spontaneous behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila due to appear in PLoS One next week is accompanied by a press-release PLoS sent out just a day or two ago. T...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media |
| Posted on Saturday 12 May 2007 - 01:20:26 |