like fruit flies who don't sing or speak.

Fruit flies have 4 pairs, and bananas have 11 pairs.

However, it's a little difficult to do that in fruit flies.

And this is one of the great things about fruit flies.

It has another chamber for the fruit flies, which I'd chosen as preys.

David and Hidehiko and Ketaki gave a very compelling story about the similarities between fruit flies and humans, and there are many similarities, and so you might think that if humans are similar to fruit flies, the favorite behavior of a fruit fly might be this, for example (Laughter) but in my talk, I don't want to emphasize on the similarities between humans and fruit flies, but rather the differences, and focus on the behaviors that I think fruit flies excel at doing.

And once in space and ready to begin, the astronaut uses the plunger system to release the fruit flies...

Neurobiologists, as you well know, have lots of experimental preps, worms and rodents and fruit flies and things like this.

So at least you'll admit that if fruit flies are not as clever as mice, they're at least as clever as pigeons.

And raise your hand if you think that basic research on fruit flies has anything to do with understanding mental illness in humans.

Now to put some neurobiological meat on this abstract model, we constructed a simple one dimensional world for our favorite subject, fruit flies.

Now several people at this conference have already suggested that fruit flies could serve neuroscience because they're a simple model of brain function.

Now to put some neurobiological meat on this abstract model, we constructed a simple one dimensional world for our favorite subject, fruit flies.

Flies?

Flies?

The Chloropidae are a family of flies commonly known as frit flies or grass flies.

I took her and Cleopatra out and fed them, you know, by opening the plungers and opening so more fruit flies would come out.

Time flies.

Time flies.

The amazing thing is even things like roundworms and fruit flies also number in a surprisingly large fraction of the base pairs of a human being.

The bird flies.

F4, you flies!

How time flies!

How time flies.

How time flies

Well, time flies.

So flies love this.

Flies ain't good enough?

Yes. How time flies

Time flies, doesn't it?

How quickly time flies!

Baby flies? Oh. Oh!

They're droppin' like flies!

Now he flies airplanes.

A fruit, your favorite fruit.

It actually flies underneath Saturn.

Goo JungMool (sewage)? Or flies?

It flies through the air.

Who wants to eat flies?

He flies at 10 30pm.

I hate these flies. Foxhill!

DDT is for killing flies.

Well, we call up the doctor of flies and, yes, there is a doctor of flies.

So slowly I began to realize that what started out as a rather playful attempt to try to annoy fruit flies might actually have some relevance to a human psychiatric disorder.

In the field of food production, the Agency is promoting the use of the so called sterile insect technique, which relies on the release of large numbers of radiation sterilized male insects to mate with fertile females, thereby gradually reducing the population of, for instance, tsetse flies and Mediterranean fruit flies.