Posts Tagged: Drosophila

Lawn-pocalypse! Surviving Drought

Ah, summer! The season of sunburns, pool parties, and… lawn droughts. If your once lush, green carpet now looks like a crunchy brown doormat, you're not alone. Let's dive into why your yard is staging a dramatic death scene and what you can do to...

Bermuda grass and weeds overtaking drought stressed turf grass.

A patch of former lawn, mostly dead, with a few green weeds and Bermudagrass

'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...

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...

A fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, feeding on a banana. (Photo by Sanjay Acharya, Wikipedia)

A fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, feeding on a banana. (Photo by Sanjay Acharya, Wikipedia)

William Ja Seminar: 'Eat, Excrete, & Die: Regulation of Homeostatic Behaviors and Aging in Drosophila'

"Eat, Excrete, & Die: Regulation of Homeostatic Behaviors and Aging in Drosophila." That's the title of the Jan. 22nd seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and presented by William Ja, associate...

This cartoon from the lab of William Ja will illustrate his Jan. 22 seminar on "Eat, Excrete, & Die: Regulation of Homeostatic Behaviors and Aging in Drosophila."

This cartoon from the lab of William Ja will illustrate his Jan. 22 seminar on "Eat, Excrete, & Die: Regulation of Homeostatic Behaviors and Aging in Drosophila."

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...

This is the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that Katie Thompson-Peer uses in her biological research. (Photo by André Karwath, Wikipedia)

This is the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that Katie Thompson-Peer uses in her biological research. (Photo by André Karwath, Wikipedia)

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