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Virtual Fly Brain
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VFB makes exploring Drosophila neuroanatomy easy: Find brain regions, neurons, transgenes, connectomes, scRNAseq, phenotypes & papers in a few simple clicks.

Join us on GitHub to help
https://github.com/VirtualFlyBrain/VFB2

https://virtualflybrain.org
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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FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology
flybase.org
June 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🧠 VFB just expanded NBLAST similarity scores to include male-CNS optic lobe & FAFB-FlyWire datasets! Now easier to find morphologically similar neurons across connectomes & identify potential split-GAL4 drivers. Big win for #neuroscience #flyresearch 🔬

virtualflybrain.org/blog/2025/05...
New Precomputed Neuron and Expression Pattern Similarity Scores on VFB
VFB neuron-to-neuron and neuron-to-expression pattern similarity scores (NBLAST) have been expanded to include the male-CNS optic lobe and FAFB-FlyWire connectome datasets.
virtualflybrain.org
May 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Now official: our next
@embl.org
course on #Drosophila
Genetics & Genomics will be held 3-8 Aug '25. Send in your applications!
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@flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @virtualflybrain.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky community! 👋

Are you looking forward to 2025 as much as we are? 👀

We just updated our 2025 Annual Poster to include even more events for you to join, so go and have a look!

➡️ s.embl.org/poster-bl

#EMBLEvents #molecularbiology #lifesciencetraining
December 13, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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December 6, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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Nominations are open (until Dec 13) for the Larry Sandler Award, presented each year to an outstanding recent graduate who has completed a PhD in an area of Drosophila research. They'll present the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture at the conference's opening session.
genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...
Awards & Financial Support - 66th Annual Drosophila Research Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org
December 2, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Are you aware of our collection of #Drosophila #history articles? Feel free to suggest more!!!!!!!! droso4public.wordpress.com/history/
December 2, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Larval split-GAL4 line raw images release
Raw images from the 1020 Larval split-GAL4 lines and 350 Generation 1 LexA lines included in Meissner et al., 2024 are now available on VFB.

virtualflybrain.org/blog/2024/03...
November 18, 2024 at 12:48 PM