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The #Dros26 website is live—start planning your conference attendance now! 🪰 Browse abstract submission topics, key dates, speaker & venue information, details on travel funding & attendance support, & more: buff.ly/17covCE Bookmark the page to stay updated as new information becomes available!

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Thanks to all who have expressed a willingness to support FlyBase. The wheels of bureaucracy are large and grind slowly. We expect to have a fee process in place by July. @flybase.bsky.social

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Today's Alliance webinar, Orthology and Paralogy at the Alliance, is now posted to our YouTube channel, so if you missed it, want to see it again, or want to share it with a colleague, here it is youtu.be/n47SPQCSl0Y

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VFB works closely with the FlyBase team and we rely on their hard work to provide many of our features. Due to the current funding situation at FlyBase (flybase.org), we encourage our users to donate and help maintain this essential resource.

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We have updated APPRIS to @gencodegenes.bsky.social v48/ @ensembl.bsky.social v114. New principal isoforms for human, mouse, rat, cow and fruit fly ( @flybase.bsky.social ). Principal isoforms for a total of 73 human genes have been updated manually.

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FlyBase needs your help! Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org

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The Alliance webinar on Orthology and Paralogy at the Alliance is TOMORROW (June 12), noon EDT. Preregister by TONIGHT (June 11) by midnight EDT for the Zoom link forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP....

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European-based researchers can help support future #flybase curation by donating at this site: www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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The Alliance Office Hours topic for June is Orthology and Paralogy in the Alliance Thursday, June 12 @ noon (EDT). The registration form for the webinar is below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... The Alliance Events calendar is: www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

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This month's Alliance webinar is 'Orthology and Paralogy at the Alliance', presented by Chris Tabone, on Thursday June 12 EDT. Preregister by Wednesday June 11 (before midnight EDT, please) to get the Zoom link forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP...

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#ICYMI Most read articles @the-node.bsky.social in May include two articles from #MetabolismMondays series covering diverse aspects of metabolism research using #Drosophila. Lautaro Gandara from @justinmcrocker.bsky.social lab @embl.org talks about the impact of toxins on insect physiology.

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FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

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SUSTAINABILITY & #DROSOPHILA - If you keep flies & have tried to re-use containers but then given up on it, please could you let us know & tell us the reasons? We urgently need statements for a publication about sustainability in fly labs. Please, contact [email protected]

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We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

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👀 For more than 15 years, Janelia researchers have been on a mission to catalogue the neurons of the fly optic lobes & develop genetic tools to study them. This effort has culminated in a complete inventory of all the visual neurons in the fruit fly ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !

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Did you know? 🧪 "The Interactive Fly" is a wonderful website hosted by @socdevbio.bsky.social where you can learn about their development, the history of gene discovery/name, and it is full of super useful resources for the #DevBio community 🪰https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/aimain/1aahome.htm

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Early registration for #EDRC2025 ends today (May 30)

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If you encounter problems when registering for #EDRC2025 please email [email protected] . And don’t forget early bird registration finishes on the 30th of May!

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New FlyBook paper! Origin and establishment of the germline in Drosophila melanogaster academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

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We've added a link to opencloning.org on our Tools and Prototypes page, in the Community Resources section www.alliancegenome.org/prototypes

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The recording for yesterday's Alliance webinar, 'JBrowse2 at the Alliance', is now posted to our YouTube channel youtu.be/VmEJRhX92zI?.... Highly recommended if you're new to JBrowse2!

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Big #Drosophila news!🪰 The AMP mutant lines from Hanson et al. (elifesciences.org/articles/443...) & the many isogenic immunity strains generated by @lmvteixeira.bsky.social & @brunolemaitre.bsky.social's group are now in @vdrc-flies.bsky.social! Find the 40 DrosDel Immunity Panel strains at ⬇️

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Reminder: the May Alliance webinar 'JBrowse2 at the Alliance', is THIS Thursday, May 15, at noon EDT. Register by midnight EDT Wedsnesday May 14 for the Zoom link forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP...

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You may have noticed that the esyN interactions graphic display is no longer shown in the Interactions section of Gene Reports, Allele Reports and Physical Interaction Reports. This is because esyN, which powered the display, has gone dark.

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This month's Alliance webinar is 'JBrowse2 at the Alliance', presented by Jeff De Pons with co-host Anne Kwitek, on Thursday May 15 at noon EDT. Please preregister by Wednesday May 14 (by midnight EDT please) to get the Zoom link forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP...

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Please help the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) by completing a survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... to evaluate its future production & phenotyping priorities. The purpose of the survey is to ascertain the level of community interest & enthusiasm for IMPC to continue its (more)

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With the new release, FlyBase is now displaying a Bluesky social media feed on our homepage.

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FlyBase has added new #MetabolicPathway reports in FB2025_02: NAD(+) BIOSYNTHESIS VIA THE SALVAGE PATHWAY flybase.org/reports/FBgg..., TRICARBOXYLIC ACID (TCA) CYCLE flybase.org/reports/FBgg..., PROTEIN O-GLYCOSYLATION flybase.org/reports/FBgg..., PROTEIN O-GalNAcYLATION flybase.org/reports/FBgg...,

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New precomputed files in FB2025_02! We've added 3 new files to our Bulk Downloads page flybase.org/downloads/bu... 2 of the files (Classical and insertion allele descriptions and Transgenic construct descriptions) contain the same kind of data as the Alleles, Insertions, Transgenic Constructs, &

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New in FB2025_02: All Gene Group class pages,, including #SignalingPathway, #MetabolicPathway, #MacromolecularComplex and #GeneGroup reports, now have #InteractiveTables enabled. #FlyBaseSkeetorial

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