Recording for Dr. Benjamin White (NIMH) is now available. Recordings featuring previous speakers are also available. The Lucy Cherbas Seminar Series highlight new tools, reagents, and methods supporting research using Drosophila melanogaster. Link here: dgrc.bio.indiana.edu/Videos

Will be presenting work from this pre-print www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... at #SIVB2025

Establishment of Drosophila Intestinal Cell Lines. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656384v1

187 registrants for Lucy Cherbas seminar series. See you all soon in less than 2 hours.

Drosophila folks at the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Fly meeting please take some time to thank the amazing organizers who put in a lot of hard work: genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2... Special thanks to GSA folks especially the tireless Suzy Brown (who appears to run entirely on diet Mountain Dew)

Wow! We have Réunion Island pinned on our map today, and UAE.

Drosophila cell culture clinic is open till 4:15 PM Friday. #DROS25

dgrc.bio.indiana.edu/Newsletter If you are a student, post doc or early PI who have not signed up to receive quarterly newsletter from the DGRC. Link to sign up is attached. #DROS25

Still sunny out. If you haven’t gotten your eye protection sunnies, drop by Booth 208 #dros25

Nothing says “I’m so fly” like a stylish DGRC sticker on your laptop. 🧬 Want one? Swing by our booth 208 at #Dros25 #FlyScience #Genetics

Day1📍 The DGRC community is worldwide! Researchers from US, Brazil, Europe (Norway, Germany, UK), Asia (India, South Korea) & beyond are pinning their locations at #Dros25. Join the network & connect with fellow Drosophila scientists! Drop by Booth 208.

#dros25 Booth 208

On the way to #Dros25 See you all in sunny San Diego

From India to Indiana, Treesa, an undergrad assistant at DGRC is on a mission to medical school in the U.S. Balancing research, academics, and service—what’s the best advice you’d give her? news.iu.edu/college/live...

Voting for the #FlyBoard ends THIS Sunday Feb 16 at 11:59pm EST. Vote here genetics-gsa.org/2025-fly-boa... for President and representatives for California, Mid-Atlantic Region, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Love Drosophila? Love stickers? We’ve got both! Snag yours at #DROS25 in San Diego.

We just sent out info to your emails on the 4th Lucy Cherbas Seminar earlier today. Registration is open. DM if you did not get the invite and want in!

Importing flies into the UK has got much easier. The overseas lab has to (with the help of the receiving lab) download a "General Import Licence" from the Agriculture ministry, sign off on the conditions listed, and include it with the shipping documents. However.... 1/4

San Diego Fly Meeting 2025 Buttons, stickers or sunglasses?

DGRC will have a booth at the San Diego Fly meeting.

DGRC Cell Culture Lab relocation ✅ complete. TC facility operational!

DGRC will not ship on Monday Jan 6th, 2025 because of winter weather disruptions.

Season’s greetings and happy holidays! #drosophila #flyextract

This week concludes the shipping of orders domestically and internationally. We will resume shipping in the first week of January 2025. Meanwhile, wishing everyone a great winter break. Guess what DGRC Director accomplished at the departmental holiday party. 👇🏽

The European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social has just launched a #prize to the best #PhD thesis using #Drosophila. 🏆🪰 Deadline is Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the #EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social ! More info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

The nomination deadline for the Larry Sandler Award is TOMORROW (Dec 13).

The #EDRC2025 will select proposals for six workshops, each with up to nine speakers (12 minutes presentations + 3 minutes Q/A). If you are interested in hosting a workshop, please send a one-page proposal to [email protected] by May 5, 2025

The European Drosophila Society is delighted to join Bluesky! Follow us for the latest European fly news. #EDRC2025 #Drosophila #Drosofeed

Working with two brilliant graduate students, helping them learn cell culture techniques and tackle cell line transformations. It’s amazing to see their confidence grow. Have you faced any challenges while learning lab techniques? Share your story below! #LabLife #cellculture #DGRC #drosophila

These freshly made #flyextract are going places today. 500mL heading out of our inventory.

Calling #Drosophila #grad students #postdoc and #pretenure #faculty to participate in FlyCROSS and be matched by a #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs ! #genetics #dros25 #phdlife @flybase.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social

📦 These #Drosophila tracheal epithelial lineage cell lines are on their way to support research.Who else is working with BtI lines? Let us know your projects! 👇 #Drosophila #CellCulture

December shipping schedule Shipping resumes today! The last day of domestic shipping is Thursday, December 12th, 2024 for delivery on Friday, December 13th, 2024. The last day of international shipping will be on Friday, Dec 13th for anticipated delivery the following week.

Nominate an early career scientist to give the inaugural Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture at Dros 2025! genetics-gsa.org/awards/hugo-...

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...

Submissions for the Drosophila Image Award, presented at #Dros25, are open until 1/31/25 More info here drosophila-images.org and here genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the incredible Drosophila research community and the opportunity to support your work through the Drosophila Genomics Resource Center. Wishing you a warm, productive, and joyful Thanksgiving!

Strutt et al used #Drosophila #cellculture system to study Planar Polarity complex assembly and donated the #knockout lines for Frizzled, Strabismus (Van Gogh) and Dishevelled. www.cell.com/current-biol...

The plenary speaker lineup at #EDRC2025

David Bilder @bilderlab.bsky.social is one of #EDRC2025 plenary speakers. He is full professor @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social where he runs a research lab focusing on the mechanisms that govern epithelial polarity, cell shape, and tissue morphogenesis using #Drosophila of course! 🪰🧪

#DGRC YouTube channel hosts a number of lectures covering the use of reagents and techniques such as #cellculture, #highthroughput screens and #human #cDNA collection. www.youtube.com/@drosophilag...

2024 Midwest #Drosophila Conference at Allerton. From inspiring talks to engaging discussions, the event was a celebration of science and collab. Huge thanks to everyone who participated and made it a success. Until next time, let's keep flying high!

Diving into this: Intestinal AMPs originate from endodermal cells (endoblasts), mimicking neuroblast-like asymmetric divisions. Could this uncover ancestral pathways in progenitor cell specification? www.cell.com/developmenta...

Hello, Drosophila Community! We’re excited to join Bluesky and connect with researchers! At the Drosophila Genomics Resource Center (DGRC), we provide reagents to power your discoveries. Follow us for updates, tips, and discussions. What’s your favorite #Drosophila research question? Let’s chat!