High school students from the ‘Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires’, participants of the extra-curricular workshop “The room of the Flies”, visited the IBioBA.
These are students in 3rd to 6th grade highly motivated by science and in particular by the use of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as an experimental organism.
Dr. Nara Muraro, which conducts at the IBioBA research related to the neurobiology of sleep, gave them a talk on the many experimental possibilities available with Drosophila in neuroscience research.
After, the students and their teachers, visited the IBioBA facilities.