Science Cafe - Buzzed: Using Fruit Flies to Understand Alcohol Addiction

From SCONC:

Tuesday, Jan. 13

7 p.m.

Periodic Tables -- "Buzzed: Using Fruit Flies to Understand Alcohol Addiction." The Science Cafe of Durham features Duke freshman Kapil Ramachandran, who won national recognition at age 16 for his work on the Diazepam binding inhibitor, a protein that apparently confers alcohol tolerance in fruitflies. Put your own inhibitions to the test while discussing Kapil's work.

Broad Street Cafe, 1116 Broad Street, Durham; free and open to the public http://www.ncmls.org/periodictables