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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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NewsFrom 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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NewsCongratulations, 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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NewsWhy 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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NewsGENETICS and G3 welcome new Senior and Associate Editors
Welcome to our newest editors! Guilherme da Silva Pereira, Li-Lin Du, Jullian Catchen, and Dan Bergstralh join G3 as Associate Editors; Leo Parts and Athma Pai join GENETICS as Associate Editors; and Joanna Masel joins GENETICS as a Senior Editor.
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NewsAnnouncing the new “Functional Genomics and Systems Biology” section in GENETICS
The GSA Journals are introducing Functional Genomics and Systems Biology, a new section led by Brenda Andrews and Marian Walhout that highlights systems-level studies of genetic networks and pathways.
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NewsHow 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.