In their paper Yilan Shen, Sunna Haidar, Mihail Nikolaev & Denis Beqja describe the use of a transgenic tarantula toxin as a novel tool to study mechanosensitive ion channels in Drosophila. Four Biomedical Sciences undergraduates published their first paper this week!In their paper Yilan Shen, Sunna Haidar, Mihail Nikolaev & Denis Beqja describe the use of a transgenic tarantula toxin as a novel tool to study mechanosensitive ion channels in Drosophila. The work was carried out as part of a summer internship in the Denholm lab and was funded by a BMTO Summer Research Scholarship and a WR Henderson Scholarship. Image Congratulations Yilan, Sunna, Mihail & Denis!Their paper can be found below. Journal of Insect PhysiologyDenholm Lab Research Group BMTO WR Henderson Scholarship Publication date 16 Oct, 2020