The model organism episodes continue, this week featuring fruit flies! Those pesky buggers do more than just populate your banana bowl. Tune in to hear us interview a grad student about what makes fruit flies such a popular model organism and the cool things we can research by using them. Join us, as we find yet another organism name we can't pronounce.
TimeStamps:
0:00: Crazy Science and Woman in Science
7:20: Intro to flies
12:40: Interview with Marianne Mercer
Links:
Artificial Heart:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220422184956.htm
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm3791
Marianne's Paper:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.710186/full