Media Coverage of Lab Research

Television Programs

Fly Swat Sience. A short piece produced by Science Central on the results of a Current Biology paper on motor planning during take-offs (or why flies are so hard to swat!). http://www.sciencentral.com/video/2008/10/23/fly-swat-science/

Predator vs. Perch. A short piece produced by Science Central on the results of a Current Biology paper on the visual decision-making processes in flies. http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218393116

Fly Lab Trailer from WNET's 2-hour program 'Curious' (2007)
http://www.thirteen.org/curious/episodes/inside-the-fly-lab/

Robofly. This award-winning documentary was written by Jason Spingarn-Koff, then a journalism student at UC Berkeley. The web site has many clips and much ancillary information. (2001)
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/mm/spingarnkoff/flyorama/robofly.html

Insect Wing. This documentary, produced by Andrew Holland, aired in 2000 on the Australian science show Quantum. It was a particularly well-written and produced film that features the science projects within the lab. These link provides a partial transcript.
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/robofly.html
http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/stories/s103203.htm

Scientific American Frontiers: Life's Little Questions. Transcript of show hosted by Alan Alda (who couldn't be bothered by actually visiting the lab.
http://www.pbs.org/saf/transcripts/transcript904.htm

Radio Programs

To the Best of Our Knowledge: For the Love of Bugs. This segment of the award-winning Wisconsin public radio show features discussion of applications of fly flight research. Renowned entomologist Deborah Gordon is also featured. (2000)
http://www.wpr.org/book/000723a.htm

Pulse of the Planet. Three segments aired in 2006 are not yet available on the POTP website.

Articles

Fly-O-Rama. A 2002 article for Popular Science written by award-winning science-writer Carl Zimmer. This article is the first printed example of the Dickinson Lab Motto, 'Little %$#$@ing Robots'. Ask Mark Frye and Joel Levine for more information.
http://www.carlzimmer.com/articles/2002.php?subaction=showfull&id=1177164194&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&

Look Up in the Sky: Robofly. This feature, written by Louise Knapp, appeared in Wired magazine in 2000.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/12/40750

Come Fly with Me. This article, with a ridiculously goofy first figure, was based on a lecture given by Michael Dickinson to a mixed group of engineers and businesspersons at Caltech in 2003. It describes the basic resercah program of the lab as well as its scientific philosophy. It is a good overview of the many different experimental approaches used in the lab.
http://eands.caltech.edu/articles/Dickinson%20Feature.pdf

Fly Like a Fly. This short piece was written by Allan Hall for Scientific American in 1999.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000DF125-5545-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21

Aerodynamic Acobatics: A Berkeley Professor Uses Robotic Wings to Explain How Insects Fly. This article, written by Vincent Kiernan, appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 1999.
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/writing/Assign/topics/fly/che.html

Pulse. Robofly and insect flight is discussed is an exert from Robert Frenay's book.
http://www.pulsethebook.com/index.php/index.php?tag=neurons

Float Like a Robot Butterfly. New Scientist Tech article by Paul Marks. http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/robots/mg19425996.300

Fruit Flies Highlight Aerodynamics of Insect Flight. National Geographic News article by John Roach.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0423_030423_flyflight.html

Societies

The American Society of Biomechanics
http://asb-biomech.org/

International Society for Neuroethology
http://www.neuroethology.org/

Society for Experimental Biology
http://www.sebiology.org/

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
http://www.sicb.org/

Affiliate Labs

Axel Borst's Research Group
http://www.neuro.mpg.de/research/scn/

Tom Daniel's Research Group
http://faculty.washington.edu/danielt/

Mory Gharib's Research Group
http://www.gharib.caltech.edu

Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/mfi.html

Mandyam Srinivasan's Research Group
http://cvs.anu.edu.au/insect/insect.html

Mark A. Willis' Research Group
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/biol/biol.htm