Stanford Neuroscientist Mark Schnitzer Featured in Science

It is possible to image the brain of a single fruit fly, but how about 100? This is what, MBF Bioscience Customer and Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford University, Mark Schnitzer, would like to do.

In an interview published in the October 16 issue of Science, Schnitzer explained that “massive brain imaging” would revolutionize brain research by allowing neuroscientists to simultaneously study multiple flies of the same genetic strain to get a clearer picture of the differences in individual brain function. “If it really is possible to look at 100 flies in parallel it will open up questions that can’t be addressed today because the experiments are simply too prohibitive,” he said.

Read the full interview at sciencemag.org.

{Image courtesy of Stanford.edu}