Do fruit flies dream of electric bananas?

[bananas]

Björn Brembs studies the mind of the fruit fly:

http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.696.3

Do fruit flies dream of electric bananas?

That's the title of my 'Thought Experiment' column in the next issue of 'The Scientist', due to appear on February 1. Sarah Greene from The Scientist approached me in my role as F1000 faculty member at this year's SfN annual meeting in San Diego and asked me if I didn't want to write something for The Scientist.

The short article is about visualizing neuronal activity in small brains. <snip>

Overall, this is the way microscopy is heading these days: after having increased the spatial resolution to below the optical diffraction limit, now researchers all over the world are turning towards increasing the temporal resolution. This will allow us to record 3D videos of brain activity, very similar to the way currently being done with fMRI in humans, but with ten times the temporal and many times the spatial resolution. <snip>

Attached at the end of my article in The Scientist is a 5min video where I'm giving a brief summary of our latest research <snip>

His article in The Scientist is at http://www.the-scientist.com/2011/2/1/26/1/
but the rest of his blog entry is pretty interesting too.