Bioluminescent Animals: Flashlight Fish, Fireflies, and the World of Light-Emitting Organisms (2011)

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Sunday, April 3, 2011, 2:00pm

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.