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Drug Discovery in Fish, Flies, and Worms.

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Nonmammalian model organisms such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, and the zebrafish Danio rerio provide numerous experimental advantages for drug discovery including genetic and molecular tractability...

Drosophila tools and assays for the study of human diseases.

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Many of the internal organ systems of Drosophila melanogaster are functionally analogous to those in vertebrates, including humans. Although humans and flies differ greatly in terms of their gross morphological and cellular features, many of the molecular...

100 years of Drosophila research and its impact on vertebrate neuroscience: a history lesson for the future.

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Discoveries in fruit flies have greatly contributed to our understanding of neuroscience. The use of an unparalleled wealth of tools, many of which originated between 1910–1960, has enabled milestone discoveries in nervous system development and function...

Genetics on the Fly: A Primer on the Drosophila Model System.

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Fruit flies of the genus Drosophila have been an attractive and effective genetic model organism since Thomas Hunt Morgan and colleagues made seminal discoveries with them a century ago. Work with Drosophila has enabled dramatic advances in cell and...

Resources for functional genomics studies in Drosophila melanogaster.

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Drosophila melanogaster has become a system of choice for functional genomic studies. Many resources, including online databases and software tools, are now available to support design or identification of relevant fly stocks and reagents or analysis and...

Nominations due July 14th for 13th Elkins student lecture on Drosophila neurobiology

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Nominations are being accepted through July 14, 2017, for the Elkins lecture, which is held during the CSH Neurobiology Course. J.T. Littleton writes that "Graduate students working in any area of Drosophila neurobiology are eligible. Suitable candidates...

18th International Congress of Developmental Biology in Singapore

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The 18th International Congress of Developmental Biology will take place June 18 to 22, 2017 in at the National University of Singapore. Confirmed speakers include J. Nusslein-Volhard and E. Wieschaus.

PopFly: new online resource for Drosophila population genetics

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A. Barbadilla and team at the Bioinformatics of Genome Diversity group of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina have launched a new online resource, PopFly, for Drosophila population genomics. The...

FlyBase TV at YouTube adds tutorial on Gene Snapshots

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Whether you are new to Drosophila research or experienced, a quick look at the tutorial offerings at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG-KSNq46vkezAwbrVQojYA might point you in useful directions. On May19th they posted for example an explanation of what...

Neurofly meeting Sept. 3-8, 2018, in Krakow, Poland

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NEUROFLY, the 17th European Neurobiology of Drosophila Conference, will take place Sept 3-9, 2018, at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

VDRC Stock Center turns 10

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On June 2, 2017, VDRC stock center annouced on Twitter that they are celebrating thier 10th anniversary. Their original RNAi library stock collection has grown to include additional fly genetic resources, including the Vienna Tiles Gal4 library collection...

"Building dialogues between clinical and biomedical research through cross-species collaborations" June 2017

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