Morgan's Fly Room

The Fly Room at Columbia University - Restored to Its Original State from Imaginal Disc on Vimeo

Since this is my last post, and there won't be any more voting, I thought I'd share a very cool project that I recently came across that recreated Thomas Hunt Morgan's famous fly room at Columbia University. The fly room was a hot, cramped, putrid smelling room where Morgan and his colleagues unraveled some of the biggest mysteries of heredity and sex determination, work that earned them the Nobel Prize in 1933.

The room was recreated for a 2014 feature film aptly named "The Fly Room," and they do a remarkable job of recreating the details of the lab. The production company, Imaginal Disc, also put together a great website with some stories about the lab and interviews with Morgan's daughter Betsy. The video above is a short produced by Imaginal Disc showing off the room, and I've linked to the trailer for the full movie below.

Thanks everyone for a great seminar!

Imaginal Disc: http://www.imaginaldisc.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cejz9HKRS-M
The Fly Room website: http://www.theflyroom.com/

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