Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The flies have it
Janice Fischer
As a graduate student in biology, Janice Fischer had rotated through four laboratories and nothing had grabbed her imagination.
In the fifth lab, she found the fruit fly.
“That was it,” she says. “I wanted to stay there and, luckily, they let me.”
For 22 years, Fischer, a professor in the Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, has been working with the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as her model organism.
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