Many fly research-related jobs are advertised by employers, on standard job search sites, and at career sites run by biological journals. In addition, the FlyBase Jobs posting forum is designed to support fly-related job postings.
There are severals ways to ask questions of fly colleagues.
Bionet.drosophila provides a discussion forum and posting site for Drosophila-related questions, events, and job postings. FlyBase General Forum lets you ask questions about FlyBase tools and data. ...
There are many books, publications, publication collections, and other resources available to help you learn about the history of fly research, basic information about fly development and physiology, and how to perform genetic and other assays using the fly. Here are just a few places to start.
The "Genetics on the Fly" primer by Hales et al. (2015) provides an excellent distillation of background information relevant to Drosophila research. The...
The FlyBase database is considered by many the 'go-to' resource for Drosophila melanogaster gene and genome information. Additional resources include the following, many of which get their underlying fly gene and/or genome information from FlyBase.
FlyMine (good for batch searches with a list of genes) ...
