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This sunny and slightly less cold February morning brings six more weeks of winter and January's #TechnicalAdvances wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
Don't forget-if you'd like your paper with a cool new technique, reagent, or resource featured in an upcoming month, flag it when you #FTYP.

Dear Mark, Elections for the National Drosophila Board of Directors for 2026 are now open. The Fly Board plays an important role in the Drosophila research community, so please read this message carefully and cast your vote. Vote Now Select the individuals who will represent the Drosophila community to further its interests in research, education, and public outreach. Voting will close on February 20, 2026. The Fly Board's duties include: Selecting the organizers and site for the North American Annual Drosophila Research Conference in collaboration with GSA Staff Overseeing Drosophila Trainee Awards, the Drosophila Service Award, the Drosophila Image Award, and the Larry Sandler Award Advocating on behalf of the Drosophila community to further research, education, and public outreach The Fly Board is led by elected representatives including the President, President-elect, Past-presidents, the Treasurer, and several regional representatives from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/Oceania, one primarily undergraduate institution representative, and two early career representatives. Regional representatives serve three-year terms that will start immediately after the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference taking place March 4–8, 2026, in Chicago. The Board also has ex-officio members, including past-Presidents, meeting organizers, and community resource center representatives. Thank you, The 2026 Drosophila Board Election Committee

Hey fly friends (the Drosophila Community)
It's time to vote for members of the Fly Board. They represent and advocate for us and select the folks who run our annual meeting. Look for the email!

📢 Important updates on @flybase.bsky.social

@steven-flybase.bsky.social and the team updated #Drosophila enzymes database by adding absent gene ontology annotations and removing or fixing problematic ones.

Learn more about these updates in #G3journal: buff.ly/dd3y2pN

ICYMI, this month's Alliance webinar, "MCP-What is it and what can it do for you?", presented by Lincoln Stein, is now on the Alliance YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DELY...
Want to know about future or past webinars? Check the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar

Join us at #DrosoSpain2026 for some great #Drosophila science! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social @dgrc.bsky.social

The December #TechnicalAdvances are here! If you want your paper with a new technique , reagent, or resource featured in an upcoming update, make sure to flag it when you #FTYP!
wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Alliance Of Genome Resources Event Registration Webinar recordings are posted at https://www.youtube.com/@AllianceOfGenomeResources A schedule of future events is on the Alliance Events Calendar https://www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar

This month's Alliance webinar "MCP-What is it and what can it do for you?", presented by Lincoln Stein, will be Thurs. Jan. 15 at noon ET. To get the Zoom link, please register tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt by Thurs. Jan 14 (before 11:00pm ET).
Join us to learn about model context protocols for AI agents.

Comprehensive annotation of the enzymes of Drosophila melanogaster Abstract. We have completed a systematic survey of Drosophila melanogaster enzymes, improving the coverage and accuracy of their functional Gene Ontology a

Proud of latest publication on #Drosophila #enzymes at doi.org/10.1093/g3jo..., representing several years of diligent work enhancing fly enzyme annotations and display at @flybase.bsky.social and significant improvements of the #GeneOntology.

🚨Last chance to submit your poster abstract for #Dros26! Get one-on-one feedback on your research from experts from all around the world. Submit your research by tomorrow, January 6, 7:59 p.m. EST. 🔗https://buff.ly/heeYoPC

We are pleased to announce the release of the EVA SNP Release 8 tracks, now available for 41 assemblies and covering 945 million variants.

Learn more at http://genome.ucsc.e...

Alliance version 8.3.0 is now live at alliancegenome.org. Release notes are here www.alliancegenome.org/release-notes

The FlyBase QuickSearch tool, with the GAL4 etc tab and the link to the Frequently Used GAL4 and Other Binary System Drivers resource circled in pink.

You can find a link to the Frequently Used GAL4 and Other Binary System Drivers resource at the bottom of the GAL4 etc QuickSearch tab.

The Frequently Used GAL4 and Other System Binary Drivers resource filtered to show a newly added GAL4 driver.

Updated in FB2025_05: We've added 9 new binary drivers to the Frequently Used GAL4 and Other Binary System Drivers resource flybase.org/GAL4/freq_us..., which documents all binary drivers curated to at least 15 (lexA) or 20 (GAL4) papers.

A FlyBase Gene Report opened to the Linkouts subsection of the External Crossreferences and Linkouts section. The section heading and the FlyCyc Genes linkout have been boxed in bright pink.

Links from FlyBase gene reports to FlyCyc pathway pages have been updated to reflect the latest associations.

You can find those links in the Linkouts subsection of the External Crossrefereences and Linkouts section of Gene Reports.

FlyCyc represents all the metabolic reactions and pathways of Drosophila melanogaster, computed by combining comprehensive pathway data at BioCyc (MetaCyc) with the set of manually curated/reviewed Gene Ontology annotations at FlyBase

Screenshot of the FlyCyc page at https://biocyc.org.

We have recently updated FlyCyc biocyc.org/DMEL/organis..., the pathway-genome database representing Drosophila metabolism, to include enzymatic complexes as well as further improvements to enzyme annotations. #FlyCyc is now classed as a ‘Tier 1 Highly Curated Organism Database’.

For more information, see the Downloads Overview (wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...) or the Registry of Open Data on AWS (registry.opendata.aws), and the FlyBase Commentary flybase.org/commentaries...

🚨Last chance to nominate an outstanding PhD researcher using Drosophila for the Larry Sandler Award! They'll present at #Dros26. Submit your nomination by tonight's deadline: buff.ly/KlxI3Bn

We are grateful to AWS for their generous sponsorship of this data repository, which enables broader access to both current and archival FlyBase data for the Drosophila research community.

The FlyBase S3 bucket s3ftp.flybase.org now hosts over 4 terabytes of data, including all FlyBase releases from FB2006_01, with access to bulk data files, genome sequences, precomputed reports, and historical datasets for reproducibility studies and comparative analyses across release versions.

New with FB2025_05: Archive data is back!

FlyBase is now participating in the Amazon Web Services Open Data Sponsorship Program. AWS sponsors the storage & data transfer costs for the FlyBase bulk data repository, allowing us to preserve & provide access to nearly two decades of archive releases.

Release FB2025_05 of FlyBase.org is live!
'New this release' information is here flybase.org/static/new-t...

Dear Mark, Only three days left to nominate for the Larry Sandler Award! The award recognizes excellent recent graduates who have completed a PhD in Drosophila research. The awardee will receive a fantastic opportunity to present the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture at the 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago, IL! The deadline to nominate is Monday, December 15, 2025. Nominate Here For more information visit the website.

Fly Friends: The Larry Sandler Award recognizes the PhD student with the most amazing these using Drosophila as a model. Just three days left to nominate someone. For more info on the process and the link to nominations, see:
genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

Prize Nominations | Gruber Foundation Only candidates who have been officially nominated on a fully completed nomination form will be considered for a  Gruber International Prize. All nominations materials must be submitted in English,…

⏰ Don’t miss your chance to nominate for the 2026 Gruber Genetics Prize!

Honoring up to 3 scientists for transformative genetics research—each receives a $500K unrestricted award.

🗓 Deadline: Dec 15, 2025
🔗 buff.ly/o2opMGT

Congratulations to the Fall 2025 Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award recipients! 👏 We can’t wait to see your research at #Dros26.

Learn more about their research: buff.ly/L4fQg9L

Join us in welcoming GSA’s newest Board members: VP David Greenstein, Treasurer @marymullins.bsky.social, & Directors Monica Colaiacovo (@colaiacovolab.bsky.social), Tania Reis, & @jrossibarra.bsky.social. We’re grateful for their leadership & excited for what’s ahead. Learn more: buff.ly/7LZjkoP

Join the 4th Asia Pacific #Drosophila Neurobiology Conference in China: lhs.suat-sz.edu.cn/info/1031/13...
@fly-eds.bsky.social
@flybase.bsky.social
@the-node.bsky.social

Poster abstracts for #Dros26 are open! No matter your career stage, presenting a poster is a powerful way to get feedback that only comes from one-on-one conversations. Share your work and connect with the community—submit your abstract today: buff.ly/qPG6vBi

I've had a bit of a hiatus due to faculty job apps, but the Etsy shop is open again and ready for your holiday orders! All proceeds go to @flybase.bsky.social , and I just sent the August/September revenue donation. So grab some #drosophila stocking stuffers =>

Oh, hey, the November #TechnicalAdvances have posted! wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

As always, if you want your paper reporting a new technique, resource, or reagent featured in a future month, the only way to make that happen is to flag it when you #FTYP.