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Articles tagged Drosophila
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Tools for the Fly community brought to you by the GSA Journals
The last two years have seen rapid growth in the resources available to the Drosophila community. Despite the mounting pressure on our colleagues at FlyBase due to reduced funding and recent policy changes, they continue to provide outsized value. In 2024, FlyBase released a thorough set of updates[1] ,1 and continued integration into The Alliance of…
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Rewiring neural circuits by rewiring gene regulatory networks: M. Neşet Özel
M. Neşet Özel, recipient of the 2026 Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture, has spent nearly 15 years asking a fundamental question: how does the brain wire itself with extraordinary precision, without relying on experience?
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A year in a Drosophila lab, measured in carbon
Research published in GENETICS breaks down the total carbon emissions from a PhD student’s research, giving insights into where sustainability efforts matter most.
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Congratulations to the Fall 2025 DeLill Nasser Awardees!
We’re thrilled to announce the Fall 2025 recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics! Awarded twice a year, these grants help graduate students and postdocs take the next step in their careers—whether that’s attending a scientific meeting, participating in a lab course, or connecting with the broader genetics community. The award honors…
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From flies to potential therapeutics: new insights into treating aggressive childhood tumors published in GENETICS
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are using an unexpected ally in the fight against a devastating childhood brain cancer: fruit flies. In a new GENETICS study, Sam Krabbenhoft and the labs of Peter Lewis and Melissa Harrison developed a Drosophila model to explore the genetic drivers of pediatric diffuse midline glioma—a rare, aggressive tumor…
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Congratulations, Fall 2025 Victoria Finnerty Travel Award recipients!
The Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award supports conference-attendance costs for undergraduate GSA members who are presenting research at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference. #Dros26 will be held in Chicago, Illinois from March 4-8, 2026. Victoria Finnerty, who died in February 2011, was a long-time member of the Genetics Society of America and served the Drosophila community and the genetics community at large in…
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Re-introducing David Hogness, a pioneer of molecular genetics and developmental biology.
Nowadays, we don’t think twice about running a Q-PCR to check the expression of our favorite gene, or to sequence a genomic region to identify a mutation that causes an interesting phenotype. In contrast, 50 years ago, it could take an entire PhD to accomplish such a task. Molecular genetics has evolved at an exponential…
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Why present a poster at Dros 2026?
Learn from organizer Akhila Rajan about poster presentations: why they’re important and what you can gain from them at the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference.
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You’re planning on going to #Dros26—now make the most of it: submit your abstract
You’ve marked your calendar. You’re eagerly anticipating the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in vibrant Chicago. Now, it’s time to submit an abstract.
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How Drosophila can help health science labs do more with less in Brazil
In Brazil, the FlyPower group has been promoting and advocating for biomedical Drosophila research in diverse ways, and shown that fly culture can be up to seven times cheaper than mammalian cell culture.
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Lost in translation: Mistranslated tRNA variants show sex-specific effects in Drosophila
A Drosophila model of protein mistranslation reveals the effects of serine to valine (V→S) and serine to threonine (T→S) substitutions on development, survival, and longevity where not all effects are detrimental to flies.