Posts 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)