Bioluminescent Animals: Flashlight Fish, Fireflies, and the World of Light-Emitting Organisms (2011)
Date and Time
April 3, 2011
02:00PM - 02:00PM EDT
Family program with John “Woody” Hastings
Harvard’s Woody Hastings, a pioneer in the study of bioluminescence, explored how and why creatures flash, showed live specimens from his collection of glowing dinoflagellates (a type of plankton), and discussed how scientists are discovering new benefits of bioluminescence for medical research.