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Nobel Prize winner Michael Rosbash on NPR's "Ask Me Another"

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Michael Rosbash, who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jeffrey Hall and Michael Young for their work uncovering conserved mechanisms of circadian rhythms appeared this week on NPR's "Ask Me Another" news quiz, participating in...

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Below is a selection of books focused on Drosophila research and related topics. This list was begun in February 2018 based on a community request. Please tweet suggestions for books or further sub-categories to @DRSC_TRiP or use our "Submit news ..."...

Post-doc wanted for exciting project into central nervous system regeneration and repair in Drosophila

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From the Hildalgo lab: A post-doctoral scientist is sought to investigate the molecular mechanisms of central nervous system regeneration and repair, using the fruit-fly Drosophila as a model organism. We have recently discovered genes that can promote...

11th Arthropod Genomics Symposium to be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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The 11th Arthropod Genomics Symposium will be held on Thursday-Saturday June 7-9, 2018 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL, USA.

S.E. Mohr's "First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery" available 03/01/2018

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Drosophila biologist Stephanie Mohr's book First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery was published by Harvard University Press on March 1, 2018. The book, aimed at a non-expert audience, celebrates key insights into biology made using...

Drosophila research community remembers Kathy Matthews, former BDSC director and FlyBase co-founder

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In Memorium, from FlyBase: Kathy Matthews, co-founder of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, passed away Saturday, March 17th after a short, but devastating illness. She served as director of the BDSC for 32 years from its inception in 1986 and...

"Why fruit flies are the new lab rats" essay post at Zocalo Public Square

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Know your fly antibodies? Share your knowledge!

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Bing Zhang has set up a Google doc designed to track information from the fly community about antibodies, which are research tools that make it possible to detect specific proteins. B. Zhang says on the docuemnt: "Dear Friends and Colleagues, on behalf of...

DrosAfrica Workshop "Drosophila melanogaster in Biomedical Research: Low Cost and Profitable"

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The DrosAfrica workshop " Drosophila melanogaster in Biomedical Research: Low Cost and Profitable" will take place Sept 17 through 26, 2018, in Tanta, Egypt. Information about the event is available here.

Several Drosophila researchers elected to US National Academy of Sciences

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Several members of the Drosophila research community were recently elected as members or foreign associates of the US National Academy of Sciences, including Gines Morata, Haifan Lin, Sarah Elgin, Claude Desplan, and Utpal Banerjee. Congratulations!

Meet the poster award winners from the 2018 Annual Drosophila Research Conference

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Check out the GSA Genes to Genomes blog to meet the undergraduate and graduate student winners of the 2018 Annual Drosophila Research Conference poster awards.

Lucy Liu presents 2018 Sandler Award Lecture, "Investigating the roles and origins of lipid droplet accumulation in neurodegeneration"

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Congratulations to 2018 Larry Sandler Award winner Lucy Liu. The award lecture, which honors a PhD thesis on Drosophila that wacompleted in the past year, kicked off the Annual Drosophila Research Conference this April in Philadelphia. Missed this...