Articles tagged Dros26
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I thought I was attending the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, but somehow ended up at a rock-and-roll concert. Fly Board President Eric Lai opened the meeting with an electric guitar riff. Luckily, his lyrics confirmed I was in the right place: “Don’t you know that the fly… is fly! It’s not an ask or…

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…

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?

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…

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.

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.