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Graduate student Suzana Benitez and friends in Alicia Hidalgo’s lab demonstrate their amazing Drosophila balloon art

This youtube video was created for Brain Awareness Week in March 2017, a public engagement event celebrated worldwide.  Alicia Hidalgo’s group use the Drosophila fruit fly as a model organism to study brain function.  Such research will help to unlock the secrets of human brains.

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Watch Suzana’s video below