We are pleased to announce the release of the EVA SNP Release 8 tracks, now available for 41 assemblies and covering 945 million variants. Learn more at http://genome.ucsc.e...

Alliance version 8.3.0 is now live at alliancegenome.org. Release notes are here www.alliancegenome.org/release-notes

Updated in FB2025_05: We've added 9 new binary drivers to the Frequently Used GAL4 and Other Binary System Drivers resource flybase.org/GAL4/freq_us..., which documents all binary drivers curated to at least 15 (lexA) or 20 (GAL4) papers.

We have recently updated FlyCyc biocyc.org/DMEL/organis..., the pathway-genome database representing Drosophila metabolism, to include enzymatic complexes as well as further improvements to enzyme annotations. #FlyCyc is now classed as a ‘Tier 1 Highly Curated Organism Database’.

🚨Last chance to nominate an outstanding PhD researcher using Drosophila for the Larry Sandler Award! They'll present at #Dros26. Submit your nomination by tonight's deadline: buff.ly/KlxI3Bn

New with FB2025_05: Archive data is back! FlyBase is now participating in the Amazon Web Services Open Data Sponsorship Program. AWS sponsors the storage & data transfer costs for the FlyBase bulk data repository, allowing us to preserve & provide access to nearly two decades of archive releases.

Release FB2025_05 of FlyBase.org is live! 'New this release' information is here flybase.org/static/new-t...

Fly Friends: The Larry Sandler Award recognizes the PhD student with the most amazing these using Drosophila as a model. Just three days left to nominate someone. For more info on the process and the link to nominations, see: genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

⏰ Don’t miss your chance to nominate for the 2026 Gruber Genetics Prize! Honoring up to 3 scientists for transformative genetics research—each receives a $500K unrestricted award. 🗓 Deadline: Dec 15, 2025 🔗 buff.ly/o2opMGT

Congratulations to the Fall 2025 Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award recipients! 👏 We can’t wait to see your research at #Dros26. Learn more about their research: buff.ly/L4fQg9L

Join us in welcoming GSA’s newest Board members: VP David Greenstein, Treasurer @marymullins.bsky.social, & Directors Monica Colaiacovo (@colaiacovolab.bsky.social), Tania Reis, & @jrossibarra.bsky.social. We’re grateful for their leadership & excited for what’s ahead. Learn more: buff.ly/7LZjkoP

Join the 4th Asia Pacific #Drosophila Neurobiology Conference in China: lhs.suat-sz.edu.cn/info/1031/13... @fly-eds.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social

Poster abstracts for #Dros26 are open! No matter your career stage, presenting a poster is a powerful way to get feedback that only comes from one-on-one conversations. Share your work and connect with the community—submit your abstract today: buff.ly/qPG6vBi

I've had a bit of a hiatus due to faculty job apps, but the Etsy shop is open again and ready for your holiday orders! All proceeds go to @flybase.bsky.social , and I just sent the August/September revenue donation. So grab some #drosophila stocking stuffers =>

The FlyBoard is happy to announce the call for nominations for the Drosophila Community Service Award. Please submit your nomination by 01/16/2026 by email to: [email protected]. Please repost.

Today's webinar, 'Introduction to MicroPublication Biology', presented by Tim Schedl. It's now posted at the Alliance YouTube channel youtu.be/RFXXu-4nc2E, so you can review it, share it with a colleague, or see it if you missed it.

This month's Alliance webinar is TOMORROW (Thurs Nov 20) at noon ET. Come learn about www.micropublication.org. To get the Zoom link, register here tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt by midnight ET tonight (Nov 19).

Want to learn more about the journal MicroPublication, in which you can publish a brief scholarly report in which data is presented in a single figure? Come to Thursday's Alliance webinar at noon ET (Nov 20). Preregister by midnight Wednesday (11/19) for the Zoom link tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt

Calling thesis advisors, department chairs, and supervisory committee members! 📣 Nominate an outstanding PhD/PhD candidate working with Drosophila for the Larry Sandler Award. They'll present at #Dros26. Learn more and submit a nomination: buff.ly/mtfDbBD @peiferlabunc.bsky.social

🚨 TODAY: Abstract submission for #Dros26 closes at 7:59 pm EST, so make sure you've completed your submission by then: buff.ly/OGr96Zx Don't miss out on the opportunity to present your work to 1,200+ scientists from across the globe doing important work in Drosophila.🪰

📢📢 Hey #Drosophila community, the Fly board is seeking trainee representatives. It's an incredible opportunity to learn, grow and contribute to helping our #community become stronger! I have had a phenomenal experience and you could be next! Reach out if you have any questions! @flybase.bsky.social

This month's Alliance webinar "Introduction to MicroPublication Biology", presented by Tim Schedl, will be Thurs. Nov. 20 at noon ET. To get the Zoom link, please register tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt by Weds. Nov. 19 (before midnight ET). Note: you can now request to registered for all future webinars.

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