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In a lecture that fell on this year’s Brain Awareness week, Dr. Arbuthnott talked to a group of about 80 students, who are planning to pursue either medical science or pharmacy in a university.

Dr. Price began her lecture by passing out several samples of live Drosophila to a curious audience of about 60 students, explaining that although all of the samples are biologically categorized as Drosophila, their fly wings are not identical, and that the wings actually have different numbers of veins because of their pattering during development.

In his first lecture to schoolchildren since joining OIST in October 2006, Dr. Masai first talked to the entire school of approximately 60 students about his academic background.