📢 NEW GENOME ALERT In #G3journal, @squarehare.bsky.social, @judithmank.bsky.social, and team generated a genome assembly of the Amazon guppy, Poecilia bifurca and showed how this species shares sex chromosomes with related species, albeit with substantial Y chromosome degeneration. buff.ly/lM7etkw

#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

Many frogs can be either green or brown—two colors that can help them stay hidden depending on their environment. A study explores how evolution can maintain multiple color morphs for millions of years through long-term balancing selection. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📢 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

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

🧬 With genes constantly evolving, #GeneticDrift is an ongoing challenge that can complicate biomedical research. Do you know how to prevent genetic drift from affecting your mouse colony? 👇

Have you heard of the Zebrafish Rock! Slack Pro tankspace? Sponsored by ZFIN, it acts as the premier source for questions and queries for the #zebrafish community and beyond! If you are keen to join, please fill out this Google form at our website: linktr.ee/zebrafishrock

The next Alliance webinar is THIS Thursday (9/25) at noon EDT. If you'd like the Zoom invitation please preregister by Wednesday (9/24) before midnight EDT tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt If you got the Zoom link in an email this morning, you're set, and don't need to do more.

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

Rich Losick’s Farewell Publication Reexamines a Molecular Biology Milestone 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @craigphunter.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardmagazine.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

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.

[Announcement] ZFIN Updates Data to GRCz12tu Reference Genome ZFIN is excited to announce that we have updated our site to use NCBI annotation data for the GRCz12tu reference genome. Please see our announcement here:

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT In #G3journal, Ludwig et al. present high-quality nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial genomes of figleaf goosefoot to facilitate gene-trait association studies. buff.ly/SzLKNr6

Wow, International Xenopus Meeting (IXC25) -- Matt Guille and EXRC opens the meeting with old friends new science @xenbase.bsky.social xenopusresource.org/20th-interna... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Utterly devastating: FlyBase zapped. www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha... #modelOrganism

⏰ 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!

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

The Alliance webinar for August is this Thursday (Aug 21, noon EDT), on Ontologies and the Alliance, presented by Chris Mungall. You can preregister for the zoom link here forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP...; please preregister by midnight EDT Wednesday Aug 20.

Worms love flies! Please consider donating to FlyBase. Model organisms unite! #celegans

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Joaquín Navajas Acedo. In this interview, @mads100tist.bsky.social talks about about his research vision, zebrafish and the importance of community: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Don’t miss out - 1 week left to submit photos! We need your most intriguing or adorable rat photos for RGD's 2026 Rat Calendar! The deadline for submission is Friday, August 22, 2025. For more info, go to rgd.mcw.edu/wg/rgd-2026-...

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...

Latest #yeast #microPublication: Schiemann et al. Functional Analysis of the Yeast Counterpart to the Human GCN2 p.Glu738_Asp739insArgArg Variant www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... @micropub7n.bsky.social

The next Alliance webinar will be Thursday Aug 21, at noon EDT. The topic will be Ontologies and the Alliance, presented by Chris Mungall. You can register for the Zoom link here forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP... or via the link on the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar

🏆 Nominations are open for the 2026 GSA Awards! Honor excellence in genetics across all career stages—creativity, mentorship, education, and more. Self-nominations welcome! ⏰ Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 🧬 Nominate now: buff.ly/JNHMlEb

New GO data just out!! The July 2025 GO Release 2025-07-22 is now available. ➡️ current.geneontology.org ➡️ release.geneontology.org/2025-07-22 📓 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.16423886: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 39,906 GO terms 9,417,935 annotations 1,602,275 gene products 5,497 species

WormBase announces its final major update, WS298, will be in Oct2025. No more new WormBase releases; existing data will be moved into Alliance of Genome Resources, ensuring vital C. elegans datasets remain accessible. Stay tuned for more updates. Read more: blog.wormbase.org/2025/07/23/a...

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT In the July issue of #G3journal, @terimandakova.bsky.social and the team present the genome of Boechera falcata, the only Eurasian species of the North American plant group, offering clues about how the plant evolved and reproduces. Read more: buff.ly/KFrBzpd

FlyBase.org release FB2025_03 is live! Go enjoy the refreshed data.

WormBase news: the upcoming October release of WormBase.org (WS298) will be the final major WormBase release. WormBase data is being incorporated into AllianceGenome.org. Please see this post for much more information community.alliancegenome.org/t/announcing...

Are you a researcher, technician or veterinary professional working with mouse models in biomedical research? Learn essential surgical techniques at an upcoming JAX workshop. 📅 Nov. 3 – 6 📍 Bar Harbor, ME 🔗 jax.org/education-an... 📅 Dec. 2 – 5 📍 Farmington, CT 🔗 www.jax.org/education-an... #VetMed

#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs. @flybase.bsky.social

It’s been 25 years since the UCSC Genome Browser launched. Nature profiles how the website remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function, and clinical impact. #Academicsky 🧬 🧪

It’s time to pull out your cameras! Please send us your cute/fun high-res photos of rats to [email protected] Please submit by Friday, August 22, 2025. We'll send copies to photo contributors; see our website for details: rgd.mcw.edu/wg/rgd-2026-...

The Midwest Regional Society for Developmental Biologists meeting, Sept 19-21, 2025, will be at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio www.midwestsdbincincy.org Registration deadline 9/7/25; abstract deadlines 8/7/25 for talks, 8/22/25 for posters.

#FlyCROSS is a mentor-mentee matching program for the fly community. They're looking for mentors from all career paths (academia, industry, policy etc.) who have experience with #Drosophila research and are eager to support the next generation of fly scientists. Apply to become a mentor by 14 July:

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

ICYMI from @scekker.bsky.social et al.

Rat Genome Database is excited to announce the new #Behavioral & #Substance Use Disorder Portal—your resource for data and tools on #behavior, #addiction, & more. Explore: rgd.mcw.edu/rgdweb/porta... Learn more: rgd.mcw.edu/wg/behavior_...

📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: From Roots to Canopy: Advanced X-ray Imaging in Plant Biology Concurrent Session!🌱https://buff.ly/vyoUm4T Learn more and register now!👉https://buff.ly/HxHfSca #plantscience

Thanks to all who have expressed a willingness to support FlyBase. The wheels of bureaucracy are large and grind slowly. We expect to have a fee process in place by July. @flybase.bsky.social

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

Today's Alliance webinar, Orthology and Paralogy at the Alliance, is now posted to our YouTube channel, so if you missed it, want to see it again, or want to share it with a colleague, here it is youtu.be/n47SPQCSl0Y

A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a new species of tyrannosauroid — the group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. This discovery sheds new light on the evolution of wider tyrannosaur species. go.nature.com/4jM0KVo #Paleosky 🧪

We have updated APPRIS to @gencodegenes.bsky.social v48/ @ensembl.bsky.social v114. New principal isoforms for human, mouse, rat, cow and fruit fly ( @flybase.bsky.social ). Principal isoforms for a total of 73 human genes have been updated manually.

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.

FlyBase needs your help! Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org

The Alliance webinar on Orthology and Paralogy at the Alliance is TOMORROW (June 12), noon EDT. Preregister by TONIGHT (June 11) by midnight EDT for the Zoom link forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP....