Articles tagged Drosophila
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The Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award helps undergraduate GSA members presenting their research at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference offset the costs of attending the meeting. This year, the 68th Annual Drosophila Research Conference will bring the Drosophila research community together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 17–21, 2027. The award honors Victoria “Vickie” Finnerty, a longtime…

A new model of copulatory wounding in Drosophila melanogaster offers a genetic tool to study sexual conflict.

For generations of Drosophila researchers, the Annual Drosophila Research Conference has been more than a place to share science—it’s a community. Hear from first-time attendees and longtime participants about the connections, mentorship, discoveries, and opportunities that keep them coming back to Dros year after year.

Sex-dependent expression of the transcription factor ATF4 in adipose tissue results in increased tolerance to methionine deprivation in female Drosophila melanogaster.

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?

Research published in GENETICS breaks down the total carbon emissions from a PhD student’s research, giving insights into where sustainability efforts matter most.

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…

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…

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…