What it's like to dissect and image FLY BRAINS
Channel: RealizingResearch
Date: 2021-04-22

Working in neuroscience in a fly lab, you will often need to do dissections. Here I'm doing an adult brain dissection, which is probably one of the more difficult dissections we have to do. I'm also showing you how I image the flies using a confocal microscope. This is what my normal day looks like in a genetics/neurobiology Drosophila melanogaster fly lab. 

0:00 Intro
1:01 Dissection
2:34 Fix and Wash (+DANCE BREAK)
3:29 Antibodies
4:43 Mounting onto Slide
5:06 Imaging
6:09 Final Product

Adult Brain Dissection Examples: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6stjLZy2wk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4rVa7JCzdg

Image/Sound Credits:
Camera shutter release (Nikon F4) 2 Sound from ZapSplat
"Squid in formaldehyde" by Hannah Donovan is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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