The FlyBoard is excited to announce the call for Nominations for the Drosophila Community Service Award. Please submit your nomination by 01/12/2024 by email to: [email protected]. Please retweet.🧵1/3 Genetics Society of America FlyBase

Congratulations to the winners of the Fly Board awards! Read more about the non-profit programs that were funded and their incredible work introducing middle school, high school, or college students to #Drosophila research. bit.ly/3vjsTiZ

Reminder to nominate colleagues for the Service Award. Deadline is this Friday, 1/12/2024. Please repost.

Hey Drosophila friends: Look for an email from the Genetics Society of America with the candidates and ballot for the Drosophila Board. They help advocate for our community and design and run our annual meeting. VOTE!!

FlyBase: updates to the Drosophila genes and genomes database. Öztürk-Çolak A, Marygold SJ, Antonazzo G, Attrill H, Goutte-Gattat D, Jenkins VK, Matthews BB, Millburn G, Dos Santos G, Tabone CJ; FlyBase Consortium. Genetics. 2024 Feb 1:iyad211. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyad211.

🚨The new Alliance of Genome Resources paper is out in the latest issue of Genetics Society of America ! Check out the latest updates from GO & the other MODs of the Alliance. community.alliancegenome.org/t/new-alliance… FlyBase SGD Project @[email protected] (bsky too) Mouse Genome Info Rat Genome Database wormbase ZFIN Xenbase #GeneOntology (& reactome)

We're excited our partnership with Review Commons helps us provide efficient peer review opportunities for our authors! Make sure to check out the latest from G3 📚

thrilled to share news of Debbie Andrew's Johns Hopkins Medicine 2024 Genetics Society of America Beadle award! Debbie is well known for her research on salivary gland, and has worked tirelessly as a leader in the fly community. catch her virtual 🪰talk May 16 1EST here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

I’ve studied the neural and molecular mechanisms of behavior using #Drosophila for over 20 years, and over my sabbatical I put together a list of questions, tips, and tricks that might be helpful for those entering the world of fly behavior. kaunlab.com/behavior-blog. 🧵

Ever wanted to help organize the awesome Genetics Society of America meetings or serve in some sort of leadership capacity for the drosophila board. We’re interested in hearing from you! Look for a survey that came your way recently (check your spam folder!) & please nominate yourself or others

Preprint just dropped!🎙️We discover molecular mechanisms of the excruciatingly painful sting of the Scarlet Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis). Title: "Multiple mechanisms of action of an extremely painful venom." 🧵 1/N biorxiv.org/content/10.110…