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HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Virginia Hughes |
Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours.   |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Mitch Leslie |
Creating Internal Maps Combining complementary skills, a team of neuroscientists studies how flies navigate their surroundings. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Let's Get Small Tim Harris develops tools neuroscientists can use to measure the brain's activity, to give them a quantitative view inside the elaborate structure of the brain. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Jim Keeley |
Getting Back to the Bench All Janelia Farm group leaders, fellows, and junior fellows actively engage in research. They work to discover the basic rules and mechanisms of the brain's information-processing systems and developing biological and computational techniques for creating and interpreting biological images. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
R. John Davenport |
Hanchuan Peng: SmartScopes Even when he launched his career as an engineer and computer scientist, Hanchuan Peng was drawn to the beauty of biology. He is a leader in developing sophisticated ways to make sense of biological images. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Ivan Amato |
The View from Here "Every major advance in imaging technology precipitates a new round of breakthroughs in cell biology," says structural biologist Grant Jensen, an HHMI investigator at the California Institute of Technology. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Jeffrey M. Perkel |
A Brighter View of the Brain in Action A protein sensor is beefed up to illuminate the language of neural networks. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
New live action microscopy lets scientists follow the first days of a zebrafish embryo's development The promise of live embryo imaging is unquestionable. Light-sheet microscopy will allow scientists for the first time to describe in detail the processes of development in complex vertebrates |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Jennifer Michalowski |
JAABA: Automating the Human Observer Software can be trained to recognize behaviors in several animals, including adult fruit flies, fruit fly larvae, and mice -- even by a user with no background in computer science. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Janelle Weaver |
Scientists Identify a Gene That Drives Fruit Fly's Thirst Kristin Scott, an HHMI early career scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, has uncovered a gene, called pickpocket 28 (ppk28), that regulates fruit flies' ability to detect water and how much time they spend drinking. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Rafal Zbikowski |
Fly like a Fly The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics with less computational might than an electric toaster. Several groups have succeeded in building electronic sensors that mimic the fly's vision and other flight control apparatus. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Jennifer Michalowski |
Mimicking a Fruit Fly's Natural Environment Yields Genetics Discovery The tiniest hairs on fruit fly larvae have complex genetic controls that David Stern almost missed -- until he took the fruit flies out of their cozy incubators. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Randy Barrett |
The Silicon Marvel Computational biologists have a need for speed. The computing cluster on the Janelia Farm Research Campus delivers the performance they require at a mind boggling 36 trillion operations per second. |
Science News
June 11, 2005
Christen Brownlee |
Calories May Not Count in Life Extension A team of researchers has shown in fruit flies that shifting a diet's relative amounts of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, and fat, while only modestly cutting calories, extends life span just as much as a drastic calorie cut does. |
Chemistry World
December 2, 2010
Akshat Rathi |
Using fruit flies' sweet tooth Australian researchers have used fruit flies' sweet tooth to help in attempts to develop new sugar alternatives. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005 |
Fly Guys Turning to nature for scientific and technological inspiration is not new, and you could argue that most human-made designs are derived from natural phenomena. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Robert Wood |
Fly, Robot Fly Whether as rescue robot or flying spy, this micro-aerial vehicle could change how we look at the common housefly |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Madeline Drexler |
The Indispensables Every research lab has behind-the-scenes specialists without whom modern science could not get done. Here are the stories of five indispensable lab team members, among many acknowledged by grateful HHMI investigators. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Susan Hassler |
Winged Victory: Fly-Size Wing Flapper Lifts Off The hope is to build robotic flies that could work in any situation in which it would be better or safer to send them instead of humans. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011
Kathryn Brown |
Curved Wings A scientist-sculptor says "My philosophy is that there are only two things you can do to keep creative, like a child: art and science." |
Finefishing Fly Fishing
Gary Borger |
Designing Trout Flies Fly tying, like art, is an expression of individual preference for materials and techniques.... |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011 |
Special Report: Dream Jobs 2011 If the words "true bliss" along with "job market" evoke snorts of derision, you need to meet these 10 odds-defying technologists. Learn how you, too, can become the envy of your peers. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
John Carey |
Sydney Brenner: Model of Success At the famously innovative Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, Sydney Brenner made his mark. Today, Brenner spends part of his year at Janelia, as a senior resident fellow. |
Finefishing Fly Fishing
John Kuminski |
Practical Fly Selection for Saltwater Lure selection, whether for fly or conventional tackle, is a very personal thing, based on a combination of knowledge, intuition, and past experience... |
Science News
April 22, 2006 |
Finding Form A website devoted to advances in the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology. Watch brief movies of embryo formation in fruit flies, butterfly wing development, and other natural wonders. |
