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MOVIES
The Standard Ethanol Response: The Movie
This movie shows all of the typical phases of the fruit fly's locomotor activity response to a moderate concentration of ethanol. (QuickTime, 4.5 MB)
Drunken Fly: The Motion Picture
This real-time movie shows a fly being exposed to ethanol vapors and gradually losing its postural control, or ability to stay
upright. (QuickTime, 6.7 MB)
SELECTED ONLINE ARTICLES FOR THE LAYPERSON
"'Hangover gene’ is key to alcohol tolerance"
Link to NewScientist.com. Alcohol tolerance and stress. 2005.
"Drunken Flies"
Link to ScienCentralNews online. Insulin and alchohol sensitivity. 2004.
"New Study Isolates Gene Mutation Responsive to Cocaine"
Link to NYU Today online. Cocaine sensitivity and circadian rhythms. 2004.
"Ulrike Heberlein: High Flies Have Heberlein Hopeful"
Link to UCSF Magazine online. General article on the lab's work from the eve of our move to the new Mission Bay facilities. 2003.
"Barflies"
Link to ScienCentralNews online. Good layperson's description of why and how we screen for alcohol sensitive mutants in Drosophila. 2002.
"Drunken Flies Mimic Human Behavior -
Eventually, They Just Passed Out
Some Flies Became More Resistant to Alcohol"
Links to two pages in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's online report, The Genes We Share. About Ulrike starting the lab, and its early research. 2000.