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I try to stay very close to the title of the conference, the simplicity, complexity, and emergence.

And we are working with fruit fly and you'll see a wee little bit of my research.

But one way I can coach our work is that we use a very simple organism to study very complex

behavior and development of, for example, the nervous system.

And from that emerges understanding of human development because all of the mechanisms

and stuff are very, very, very similar, if not completely conserved.

So there is value to it.

It also saved me from having to sacrifice too many animals, well, other animals in life,

okay?

And many of the studies that I was interested in the early

stages, truthfully, were directed towards using aborted tissue, and I had no interest at all in

that kind of direction. So the fruit flies became a very nice compromise. So, and because of a couple of comments,

I gotta have a subtitle where I want to try to show you the cell

and the beauty of emergence.

Okay, so what the cell is and give it to you.

Jessica gave a great intro to all of the macromolecules,

building blocks we even use at the same time.

And so when I'm

gonna skip a couple of them now because she did too good a job to bother okay

wasting any more time but if I talk about it I'm gonna talk about it from how

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