Abstract submissions for #Dros26 are due Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 8:00 pm EST!

🪰 folks! I spoke to the Transmitter about FlyBase. As noted at flybase.org, bridge $ ran out and many staff were laid off. Good news is stopgap contributions will keep core FlyBase operations active. But community support remains essential. Please donate @FlyBase and share! 1/2 tinyurl.com/FlyBase

There is still “an urgent need for donations from the community,” says Eric Lai, president of the Fly Board. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

#Drosophila rules! Help us spread the word @drosospain.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social

ICYMI: Yesterday's Alliance webinar, 'A practical guide to Using the Alliance as a research resource' is now posted to our YouTube channel youtu.be/fr7T5Y1hxAI You can find all our previous webinars on the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar

An impressive multi-authored thread on the Drosophila adult male connectome!

The next Alliance webinar "A practical guide to Using the Alliance as a research resource" is TOMORROW (Oct 16), noon EDT Register here tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt to get the Zoom link by midnight EDT TONIGHT (Oct 15)

The next Alliance webinar is THIS Thursday (Oct 16, noon EDT). Register by midnight EDT the night before (Weds Oct 15) to get the Zoom link tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt (if you're already registered, you can expect a link tonight).

The next Alliance webinar "A practical guide to Using the Alliance as a research resource" is Thurs. Oct 16, noon EDT Paul Sternberg will demonstrate how he uses the Alliance for comparative genomics in support of his research. Register here to get the Zoom link by Weds Oct 15 tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt

Searches and tools are currently down for FlyBase.org. Our developers are working on getting us back up.

At the CSHL meeting, @sarahcertel.bsky.social gives a wonderful memorial about the recently passed Ed Kravitz. A beautiful remembrance for a man who contributed so much to our fly community and to the CSHL mission.

To celebrate the first anniversary of the release of FlyWire, we asked nine neuroscientists to share how they are using connectome data in their research and what they hope is in store for the future of fly connectomics. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/3Wx5nt3

No FlyBase release is complete without new Gene Groups. This release features mitochondrial complexes MITOCHONDRIAL INNER MEMBRANE PEPTIDASE COMPLEX, flybase.org/reports/FBgg..., MITOCHONDRIAL DEGRADOSOME flybase.org/reports/FBgg... and MITOCHONDRIAL PROCESSING PEPTIDASE flybase.org/reports/FBgg...

Also #NewInFlyBase for FB2025_04: You can now access the @alliancegenome.bsky.social BLAST service directly from the FlyBase toolbar at the top of every FlyBase page. The path is Tools>Genomics Tools>Fly BLAST @ Alliance.

#FlyBase release FB2025_04 is live. There's a couple of major changes in this release. First, we've added many new bulk files to the Downloads page. flybase.org/downloads/bu... (you can find descriptions of the contents and format of each file here wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...)

Nature has published an article on the crisis facing MODs Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures www.nature.com/articles/d41... @zfinmod.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @yeastgenome.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social @ratgenome.bsky.social @geneontology.bsky.social @nature.com

There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase... We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us. #FlyBase #Drosophila

It's #TechnicalAdvances update time; the papers added in September are here wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase.... Want your paper with with a new technique, reagent, or resource featured next month? Flag it when you #FTYP!

#Drosophila folks 📣 #FlyCROSS update: We had 80 mentees sign ups for this cycle and the committee has finished the matching processes ✅👩🏽‍🔬🥳🪰 Keep an eye out for emails from us starting next week. 👀 And please keep supporting @flybase.bsky.social and continue to donate generously !

Now the #EDB @flybase.bsky.social representative Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social is presenting #Flybase future plans

FlyBase will present posters 333 'Modeling the Mitochondrion: Building an Integrated Causal Model for Mitochondrial Processes using the Gene Ontology' and 335 'Building high-quality Genome-Scale Metabolic Models for Drosophila using the Gene Ontology' today at #EDRC2025

You can now search FlyBase and WormBase sequence data using the Alliance of Genome Resources BLAST server: www.alliancegenome.org/blastservice The Fly interface allows searching against many arthopods, #FlyBaseSkeetorial #AllianceGenomeSkeetorial #BLAST

📢 The GSA Board of Directors is seeking a graduate student & a postdoc to serve as early career representatives! Serve a 2-year term, share the early career scientist perspective at Board meetings, and help shape GSA’s future. Apply by Oct 17: buff.ly/e7eaq6b

#ICYMI Check out my new article at @the-node.bsky.social where Alice and Alejandro share #behindthepaper stories ! Come for the science, stay for learning about curiosity, philosophy, mentorship & joy of discovery! #devbio #regeneration #stemcells #scicomm #pax6 #cellbio #eye #organogenesis

In case you missed it (or want to review or share it), today's Alliance webinar is now up on our YouTube channel youtu.be/mtqlMEEqQKc If you'd like to get a jump on registering for future webinars, you can do that here tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt

This month's Alliance webinar is TOMORROW (9/25) at noon EDT, on the use of model organism data in rare disease diagnostics and disease-gene association discovery, presented by guest speaker Damian Smedley. Register by midnight EDT TONIGHT (9/25) to get the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt

The @fly-eds.bsky.social is having its general assembly this saturday at 13:30 at #EDRC2025 , please join us to discuss our society and to find out more about @flybase.bsky.social and the current funding crisis

#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

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

The next Alliance webinar is Thurs. Sept. 25, noon EDT, on the use of model organism data in rare disease diagnostics and disease-gene association discovery, presented by guest speaker Damian Smedley, Professor of Computational Genomics, Queen Mary Univ of London. Register here tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt

Thanks to journalist @felixschmidtner.bsky.social for bringing the plight of the key scientific database @flybase.bsky.social to a German/European audience www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

Hey #Drosophila community: who has already some experience with these new procedures which may also affect normal mail? Please, be so kind to share your knowledge, tips & tricks! @bdsc.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social - urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

There are only 10 days left to register for EDRC 2025! More information at edrc2025alicante.com @edrc2025.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @drosospain.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social

Fly friends--join us at #Dros26

I donated $100 to this incredible resource in honor of Konopka and Benzer’s pioneering work in Drosophila in 1971 to identify the first circadian clock gene, PERIOD

Alliance release 8.2.0 is live! www.alliancegenome.org

Exciting news! Reactome is hosting an interactive workshop at #ASHG25 on Tuesday, October 14th. Advanced ticket purchase is required, so don't forget to sign up for our session "Pathway Analysis for All" when you register for the conference.

My lab cannot afford donating at the moment, so I donated privately. Even if you don’t work on flies we all owe so much to FlyBase. Consider donating, and importantly, let’s strive to make the more official funding bodies aware of how much is at stake.

If you are a researcher whose lab uses FlyBase, consider a tax-deductible personal contribution. A lot of $100 contributions would help bridge the gap until we can set up a user fee system, and even $10 donations send the folks there the message we're behind them. Please share

I donated. It was fast and easy. I use FlyBase daily, for real. Donating supports people in our research community that do work critical for all of us. I hope all that can pitch in.

I've donated the May-July revenue from Picostitch Threads to @flybase.bsky.social . Thank you to everyone to patronized the shop! I'll continue donating the proceeds monthly until at least the end of the year, so keep stocking up on those fly pins!

Looking forward to attending the Indian Drosophila Research Conference (InDRC) at IISER Mohali this December!! We have a stellar line up of speakers....can't wait for all the exciting science and the networking interactions!! #drosophila #conference #meetings #science #research

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

Please please please, if you are able, consider supporting Flybase fiscally. They need our help! I donated this evening. They are in danger of closing and any amount will help. We cannot allow this critical pillar of science to collapse!

Fly folk: The Amazing and essential @flybase.bsky.social is in existential need due to Trump termination of the grant that supports this vital resource. Please donate to help keep Flybase alive. I just did. Info here on how to make a tax deductible donation: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

I watched the video and donated - it was super easy! Please donate if you’re able, and help spread the word so that we can keep this essential resource going.

⏰ Don’t forget! Applications for the DeLill Nasser Award are due September 18. Grad students & postdocs can apply for support to present research at national or international meetings.🔗 buff.ly/3byFIES Use these funds to attend #Dros26, #Fungal26, #PEQG26 or #Yeast26—there's something for everyone!

If you missed today's webinar, 'Ontologies and the Alliance', or if you'd like to share it or review the content, a recording is now posted to our YouTube channel youtu.be/dCg1K9CuSBI The Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar links to recordings of all our webinars.

We are excited to announce the release of the MaveDB Experiment Heatmaps and Alignment track for hg38. Each heatmap shows the results of many small substitutions that were tested within a gene to examine their functional consequences. Learn more at: http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq