8. Shoo Fly Don't Bother Me

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