#  Nobel Prize to three fly guys! 

 





October 02, 2017

 

 

 *Drosophila* researchers J.C. Hall, M. Rosbash, and M.W. Young were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work on the Drosophila period gene and uncovering molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms. [Read more at the Nobel Prize website](/). Interested to learn more? Key publications are listed at the Nobel website. Groundbreaking *Drosophila* studies on behavior, including the study of circadian rhythms, are described in the book *Time, Love, Memory* by J. Weiner.

 Links to some of the related media coverage:

 [*NY Times* Op-ed from David Bilder](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/opinion/nobel-prize-fruit-fly.html?_r=0).  
[J. Groopman in The New Yorker on "the real message" of the prize](https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-real-message-of-the-2017-nobel-prize-in-physiology-medicine).  
[S. Bay discusses the prize in GSA's Genes to Genome blog](http://genestogenomes.org/how-the-fruit-flys-daily-rhythms-led-to-big-discoveries-and-a-nobel-prize/).



 

 

 



 

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