Research Experience

The Neuroanatomy of the Wing of Drosophila melanogaster
Stephen Hart, 1978, Non-thesis paper, Master of Arts for Teachers in the Field of Biology, University of Washington

Neural Projection Patterns from Homeotic Tissue of Drosophila Studied in bithorax Mutants and Mosaics (alternate link), John Palka, Peter A. Lawrence, and H. Stephen Hart, Developmental Biology 69, 549-575 (1979)

The path of axons in Drosophila wings in relation to compartment boundaries, John Palka, Margrit Schubiger & H. Stephen Hart,
Nature, Vol. 294 No. 5840, pp. 447-449, 3 December 1981

Genetic Manipulation of Sensory Pathways in Drosophila,
John Palka, in Neuronal Development, Spitzer, ed., Plenum Press, 1982
Other research experience
Research assistant studying embryonic development of the rat salivary gland
Research technologist studying the neurophysiology of muscle activity in rhesus monkeys
See another example of science illustration on a American Biology Teacher cover.

Four-winged
Drosophila

One of the many joys of studying fruitflies with John Palka was learning to make mutant four-winged Drosophila and scanning electron micrographs as shown above. The second wing was not only anatomically correct, it was neuroanatomically correct. For an interesting comparison, look up “strepsiptera” on the web.
From “Genetic Manipulation of Sensory Pathways in Drosophila,” John Palka, in Neuronal Development, Nicholas C. Spitzer, ed., Plenum Press, 1982