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Drosophila Spain
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Drosophila Spain @drosospain.bsky.social · 28d
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate
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Expresamos nuestro más sentido pesar por el fallecimiento de Antonio García-Bellido, considerado el fundador de la escuela española de Genetica de #Drosophila y figura influyente en la investigación de la biología del desarrollo a nivel mundial. DEP @cienciagob.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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#Drosophila as a model for studying human respiratory disease causal genes, a new #Marato2024 project by the @araujolabub.bsky.social and collaborating groups at the University of Nottingham. #Drosophila @DrosoSpain rocks!
araujolabub.bsky.social Araújo Lab @araujolabub.bsky.social · 3d
We are thrilled to announce that we have been selected in #Marató2024, for research in respiratory diseases with our project “Translating candidate causal genes in human respiratory disease using #Drosophila melanogaster” together with the Georgiou and Sayers labs at the University of Nottingham!
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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araujolabub.bsky.social
📣 Interested in cell behaviour and cell-cell communication? Curious about cell architecture? Join us at @geneticsub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social in Barcelona! We’re looking for postdocs to apply for a Juan de la Cierva fellowship. Want to join us? Get in touch! www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...
www.aei.gob.es
November 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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droseu.bsky.social
🪰 🧬16th #DrosEU2026 Workshop & Satellite #DrosophilaSuzukii Meeting Conference will take place 13–17 April 2026 in #Montpellier, France 🇫🇷.

We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social Josefa González @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social · 19d
Una nueva dimension de nuestro proyecto #MelanogasterCTF: BIOLOGÍA (muestreo de #Drosophila, monitoreo de variables ambientales, bioinformática para detectar y PCR para validar #mutaciones), TECNOLOGÍA (MagniFly, estación metereológica) y ahora SOCIEDAD #TimeFlies! @drosospain.bsky.social
lcatmon.bsky.social La Ciència Al Teu Món / Science in your world @lcatmon.bsky.social · 19d
Descubre el repositorio online "TimeFlies! observando nuestra historia y relación con la biodiversidad” de #MelanogasterCTF

Memoria colectiva, conocimiento local, #CienciaCiudadana y #genomica de la adaptación para monitoreo del #cambioclimatico en la #Biodiversidad rural.
👉 timeflies.omicsuab.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Check out these two #Drosophila publications from the @droseu.bsky.social consortium 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
droseu.bsky.social DrosEU @droseu.bsky.social · 23d
We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)
October 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate
October 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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araujolabub.bsky.social
Join us in Alicante (again!) in April 2026 for all things #Drosophila in Spain! #DrosoSpain2026 #savethedate
drosospain.bsky.social Drosophila Spain @drosospain.bsky.social · 29d
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate
October 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
drosospain.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate
October 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Model organisms, in particular non-mammalian model organisms, such as yeast, Caenorhabditis elegans, #Drosophila and zebrafish, have long stood at the centre of biological discovery www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds - Nature Cell Biology
As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.
www.nature.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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#Drosophila @geneticsub.bsky.social
geneticsub.bsky.social Genetics UB @geneticsub.bsky.social · Oct 10
🔬 Sabies que…?

🧬 La Drosophila melanogaster, coneguda com a mosca de la fruita, és un insecte àmpliament utilitzat com a organisme model en biologia i genètica. 1/3
October 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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@drosospain.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social give it a try!
genetics-gsa.bsky.social Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · Oct 7
Are you advancing #Drosophila neurogenetics? 🧠🪰

Nominations are open for the Hugo Bellen & Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture—$5,000 + present at #Dros26! 2025 recipient Qili Liu shared groundbreaking work on protein-specific appetite. Who’s next?

Apply by Nov 6: buff.ly/kTdkONE
October 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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sebioldev.bsky.social
We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...
October 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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fly-jedi.bsky.social
Hello everyone!
We decided to automate our sign-up process for the JEDI network. Please register using this link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/1IdO...

Thanks to everyone who reached out! We are looking forward to building our community with you. Share and repost!!!
#Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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We are back from #EDRC2025 and very thankful to all our #DrosoSpain colleagues for the fantastic organization. It was great to see you all and we are looking forward to seeing you all in next year’s #DrosoSpain2026 . Stay tuned for a “savethedate” very soon!
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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edrc2025.bsky.social
This is the organizing team behind #EDRC2025 María Dominguez, Javier Morante @morantelab.bsky.social , Juan Sanchez-Alcaniz @sanchezalcaniz.bsky.social , Pepe Pastor-Pareja @pastorparejalab.bsky.social and Ana Carmena
September 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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3, 2, 1 and we are on!!! #EDRC2025 is starting! Welcome to our more than 740 participants from more than 40 countries! Thank you to all our sponsors!
September 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Only a few hours left before our meeting starts! Are you travelling to #EDRC2025 now? Let us know by using the oficial #EDRC2025 hashtag!
September 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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edrc2025.bsky.social
#EDRC2025 is very grateful to all our platinum, gold and silver sponsors!
September 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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iamshef.bsky.social
#Drosophila community - look at this amazing lineup for #InDRC2025

Registration for #InDRC2025 is now open! Visit indrc2025.in to register and submit your abstract.

#genetics #devbio
@flybase.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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edrc2025.bsky.social
Abstract submission is now closed but you can still register to #EDRC2025 until the meeting starts! Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante!
September 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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EMBO meeting on "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026
Registration is now open!
Deadline next November 3rd!
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...
Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila
The principal theme of the EMBO Workshop is the Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila. Supported by EMBO over four decades, this will be the 24th biennial “Crete meeting”. With the a…
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September 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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fly-eds.bsky.social
Attention #Drosophila PIs: registration for the 2026 #EMBO Crete Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila meeting is open!
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September 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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edrc2025.bsky.social
There are only 8 days left to register to @edrc2025.bsky.social and we would like to thank all our sponsorss! We start acknowledging the support received from @biologists.bsky.social to #EDRC2025 Thank you!
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share
Dear Fly Community, In May 2025, the NIH terminated all grant funding to Harvard University, including the NHGRI grant that supported FlyBase. This grant also funded FlyBase teams at Indiana University (IU) and the University of Cambridge (UK), and as a result, their subawards were also canceled. The Cambridge team has secured support for one to two years through generous donations from the European fly community, emergency funding from the Wellcome Trust, and support from the University of Cambridge. At IU, funding has been secured for one year thanks to reserve funds from Thom Kaufman and a supplement from ORIP/NIH to the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (BDSC). Unfortunately, the situation at Harvard is far more critical. Harvard University had supported FlyBase staff since May but recently denied a request for extended bridge funding. As a result, all eight employees (four full-time and four part-time) were abruptly laid off, with termination dates ranging from August to mid-October depending on their positions. In addition, our curator at the University of New Mexico will leave her position at the end of August. This decision came as a shock, and we are urgently pursuing all possible funding options. To put the need into perspective: although FlyBase is free to use, it is not free to make. It takes large teams of people and millions of dollars a year to create FlyBase to support fly research (the last NHGRI grant supported us with more than 2 million USD per annum). To help sustain FlyBase operations, we have been reaching out to you to ask for your support. We have set up a donation site in Cambridge, UK, to which European labs have and can continue to contribute, and a new donation site at IU to which labs in the US and the rest of the world can contribute. We urge researchers to work with their grant administrators to contribute to FlyBase via these sites if at all possible, as more of the money will go to FlyBase. However, we appreciate that some fu… https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase Our immediate goals are: 1. To maintain core curation activities and keep the FlyBase website online 2. To complete integration with the Alliance of Genome Resources (The Alliance). Integration with the Alliance is essential for FlyBase’s long-term sustainability. For nearly a decade, NHGRI/NIH has supported the unification of Model Organism Databases (MODs) into the Alliance, which we aim to achieve by 2028. Therefore, securing bridge funding to sustain FlyBase over the next three years is crucial for successful integration and the long-term access to FlyBase data. At present, our remaining funds will allow us to keep the FlyBase website online for approximately one more year. Beyond that, its future is uncertain unless new funding is secured. We will, of course, continue pursuing additional grant opportunities as they arise. Given the uncertainty of future NIH or alternative funding sources, we are relying on the Fly community for support. Your contributions will directly help us retain the staff needed to complete this transition and to secure ongoing fly data curation into the Alliance beyond 2028. We at FlyBase are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support from the community during this challenging time. Your encouragement has strengthened our resolve and underscores how vital this resource remains to Drosophila research worldwide. Sincerely, The FlyBase Team
August 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM