We are happy to announce that registration for #DrosoSpain2026 is now open! Please register and submit your abstracts until the 20th of February at: drosospain.umh.es Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante soon!

Join us at #DrosoSpain2026 for some great #Drosophila science! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social @dgrc.bsky.social

We are happy to announce that registration for #DrosoSpain2026 is now open! Please register and submit your abstracts until the 20th of February at: drosospain.umh.es Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante soon!

Feliz Navidad y felices fiestas! Merry Christmas and a Happy holidays! #DrosoSpain

From @sebioldev.bsky.social a tribute to Antonio Garcia Bellido and his legacy

In the 2nd DrosoSpain #DrosoSpain2026 meeting there will be a time and a place to celebrate Antonio Garcia-Bellido’s life and scientific contributions. This will be on the 10th of April at 6pm @neuroalc.bsky.social #SavetheDate @umh.es @fly-eds.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social

Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!​

🎧 New episode of SOCIALIZING with SCIENTISTS with biologist Melissa Harrison! Melissa talks about why she decided to go into the family business, as well as why fruit flies are so important to human health. @harrisonflylab.bsky.social #fruitflies #diffusemidlineglioma

El equipo liderado por @famartin76.bsky.social @institutocajal.bsky.social l ha identificado 16 #genes en las neuronas de #Drosophila que son claves para la memoria y los recuerdos www.csic.es/es/actualida...

We are pleased to announce our next #SEBD2026 meeting! The meeting will take place in El Rompido, Huelva, from the 28th to the 30th of October 2026 #savethedate @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social @ijdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social

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

#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!

📣 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...

🪰 🧬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

Check out these two #Drosophila publications from the @droseu.bsky.social consortium 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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

Join us in Alicante (again!) in April 2026 for all things #Drosophila in Spain! #DrosoSpain2026 #savethedate

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

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...

#Drosophila @geneticsub.bsky.social

@drosospain.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social give it a try!

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...

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

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!

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

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!

Only a few hours left before our meeting starts! Are you travelling to #EDRC2025 now? Let us know by using the oficial #EDRC2025 hashtag!

#EDRC2025 is very grateful to all our platinum, gold and silver sponsors!

#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

Abstract submission is now closed but you can still register to #EDRC2025 until the meeting starts! Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante!

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...

Attention #Drosophila PIs: registration for the 2026 #EMBO Crete Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila meeting is open! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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!

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 [email protected], dear [email protected], to learn more about the importance of #Drosophila and crucial role of @flybase.bsky.social, and how it gave rise to at least 9 Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine, please see this link: droso4schools.wordpress.com/why-fly/

Dear GenZ members of the #Drosophila community! You are needed to make cool fly research viral in your social media world! As a boomer I do not understand that sphere, but I can consult and contribute our enormous fund of outreach resources: droso4public.wordpress.com. Please, get in contact!

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

The last (but not least) featured keynote speaker is Wei Zhang from Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences. Her research focuses on integrating experimental and computational approaches to investigate evolutionary innovation and functional diversification at the levels of micro and macroevolution.

We are pleased to announce the full #EDRC2025 programme is now live! edrc2025alicante.com/wp-content/u...

#Drosophila research is the most reproducible, and we know it! 🧪

Another keynote speaker at #EDRC2025 is @mcgambetta.bsky.social from the Center for Integrative Genomics in Lausanne. Her research group is interested in the mechanisms of gene regulation, using #Drosophila as a model. Looking forward to her talk!

Congratulations to @fly-eds.bsky.social board member Gábor Juhász @juhg.hu and to Oren Schuldiner @schuldinerorenlab.bsky.social for their election to EMBO membership! #Drosophila

Many congratulations to #Drosophila scientist Monica Bettencourt-Dias on her appointment as director of the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona. A fantastic scientist to head a fantastic institute! @crg.eu

We have the honour of having Silke Sachse as one of our keynote speakers at #EDRC2025 . Silke leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena @maxplanck.de studying the neural mechanisms that enable animals to encode and interpret diverse odors that drive behavior.

Congratulations to @jackholcombe.bsky.social for his #EDS best PhD thesis award! Jack will give a plenary talk at #EDRC2025

MassLive.com recently interviewed several Harvard FlyBase people and wrote this news article about the importance of FlyBase: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f

Biomedical research budget cuts at Harvard threaten @flybase.bsky.social —known as the "Wikipedia of fruit fly research", fueling key discoveries in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, addiction, birth defects, and more. Details: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f #FlyBase

A new study led by #DrosoSpain researcher Jose Pastor-Pareja at @neuroalc.bsky.social is now published on @currentbiology.bsky.social In this work the authors have uncovered how the haltere, the flight stabilizer in flies, is shaped 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... youtu.be/2YA-UcFqtbo?...

A keynote speaker at #EDRC2025 Ruben Artero is a Full Professor of #Genetics at the University of Valencia. His research focuses on the genetic mechanisms of muscular dystrophies. As a co-founder of Arthex Biotech, he is committed to drug discovery and the development of RNA-based therapies