Crick Crash Course: How the Fly Helps Us to Understand Health and Disease

A morning lecture in the Crick Crash Course series, which exists to put research from across the institute in front of a non-specialist audience. This one traces Drosophila research from the early 1900s to the work going on at the Crick now: genetic inheritance, how brains process information, and how cells know when to multiply. Audience Q&A follows. Held at the Crick itself on Midland Road. Why go: the fly is the organism that taught biology most of what it knows about genes, and this is an hour of actual Crick science rather than a science-communication set piece. Best for anyone in biotech or health tech who wants the underlying research explained properly, and for people considering a move into life sciences.