human health and disease

The International Congress of Genetics and Genomics will take place July 16 - 21, 2023 in Cairns, Australia. Drosophila researchers R. Lehmann, L. Partridge, and H. Bellen, as well as Nobel laureate C. Nusslein-Volhard, are among the invited speakers...

The DrosAfrica Online Workshop 2020 will take place Oct. 12 - 14, 2020 as a virtual event. For more information, visit the workshop's website.

The DrosAfrica-ICGEB Workshop on Drosophila melanogaster in African Biomedical Research will be held Sept. 17-19, 2019, in Ibadan Nigerai. The meeting brings together the newly formed African Society of Drosophilists (ASD) and DrosAfrica, and serves as...

A Keystone Symposium on Cell Competition in Development and Disease will be held Feb. 24-28, 2019, in Granlibakken Tahoe, Tahoe City, California, USA. Symposium organizers include Drosophila biologist Laura Johnston, along with Margaret Goodell and Thomas...

Drosophila as a Cancer Model, a conference in the Barcelona BioMed Conference series, will take place April 8 - 10, 2019, at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in Barcelona, Spain. Registration deadline, Feb. 8, 2019. Meeting information here. PDF flier with...

The course Drosophila melanogaster models for neurodegenerative diseases will take place April 17 - 20, 2018, at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Trieste, Italy. According to the course flier, the application deadline...

The 2017 Champalimaud Research Symposium, “Physiology: from development to disease,” will take place Oct. 9 to 11, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal. Invited speakers include Drosophila biologists Pierre Leopold, Eduardo Moreno, Duojia Pan, Carlos Ribeiro, and...

The Model Organisms in Human Health Australia conference will take place June 27-29, 2017, at the Balgownie Estate in Yarra Valley, Australia. Confirmed speakers include Drosophila biologists Eric Wieschaus, Hugo Bellen, and Gertrud Schupbach.