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FlyBase Update – October 2025 The termination of the NIH/NHGRI FlyBase grant has placed the long-term sustainability of FlyBase at risk. However, thanks to the generous support of several key individuals and institutions, we are pleased to announce that FlyBase will remain operational through the coming year. We extend our deepest gratitude to Yukiko Yamashita, Cassandra Extavour, Hugo Bellen, Thom Kaufman, the Genetics Society of America / Drosophila Board, the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, an anonymous donor and the Wellcome Trust. We are especially thankful for a generous gift from Seemay Chou, Jed McCaleb, and The Navigation Fund. We also greatly appreciate the continued support from the broader Drosophila community – your donations and service fees have been vital in helping us stay afloat. Special thanks also go to Jessica Manning for her tireless administrative work at Harvard, to Ruth Lehmann, Hugo Bellen, and Paul Sternberg for advice and efforts, and to the Board of the European Drosophila Society for all their efforts. Sadly, we must also share that several long-standing FlyBase team members have recently moved on. We are immensely grateful to Susan Russo-Gelbart, Lynn Crosby, Gil dos Santos, Kris Broll, Victoria Jenkins, and TyAnna Lovato for their many years of dedicated service and contributions to FlyBase. Looking ahead, ensuring FlyBase’s sustainability beyond the next year – and successfully integrating with the Alliance – will require new funding sources. We kindly ask for your continued support: • European labs: Please consider contributing to the Cambridge, U.K. FlyBase group • U.S. and other non-European labs: Please consider contributing to the U.S. FlyBase groups • Both U.K. and U.S. FlyBase are working diligently to establish an invoicing system. We appreciate your continued patience. For more information on how to support us, please visit: Contribute to FlyBase wiki page https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase

There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
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This is really fantastic, whenever an old dogma is broken is worth highlighting it as one of the key papers of the year :)!
Congratulations, I have been following this article since it was posted on biorxiv, very huge contribution to the metabolism field 💪

A restricted subset of gut-innervating neurons that express the neuropeptide myosuppressin (Ms) innervate the crop, a stomach-like structure of the fly intestine. This figure shows co-expression between the Ms protein reporter (green) and Ms peptide (red) in the nervous system, and in neuronal projections towards the gut (blue).

If you find yourself at @edrc2025.bsky.social please check my wonderful postdoc's talk @neurogut.bsky.social at the gut workshop this afternoon. Gut, sex, reproduction, our new story! In combo with @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social! @fly-jedi.bsky.social #EDRC2025

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Thank you Jose, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

A fantastic way of imaging lipids!

Dual-cycle CO2 fixation enhances growth and lipid synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana Carbon fixation through the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) cycle accounts for the majority of carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake from the atmosphere. The CBB cycle generates C3 carbohydrates but is inefficient ...

Dual-cycle CO2 fixation enhances growth and lipid synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In 2022, I had the honor of publishing this paper as the cover of Nature Metabolism. We uncovered a glia-to-neuron ketone body shuttle (reminiscent of the ANLS model) that shaped my work on neuronal energy metabolism. It is rewarding to see these findings now inspiring questions across many fields

Glia feed neurons upon starvation: our 2022 Nature Metabolism paper revealed a glia-to-neuron ketone body shuttle 💪
#Memories #EnergyMetabolism #Glia @naturemetabolism.bsky.social ky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Good job :)

you see @drosostalis.bsky.social the peanut butter texture was just my innate talent 😜

Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells - Nature Directional, non-vesicular lipid transport is responsible for fast, species-selective lipid sorting into organelle membranes.

This is awesome! Lipid probes for quantitative imaging of lipid transport. A real need in the lipid field!

@nadlerlab.bsky.social

Lab’s latest: (mouse) mums grow their guts during pregnancy and lactation: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I am ready :)

Enhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila - Nature Communications Redox signalling is emerging as an important regulator of metabolism and physiology, which is dysregulated in ageing and disease. Here, the authors show that redox regulation of a key redox sensitive ...

🎉Excited to share our latest paper, published in Nature Communications!🎉

"Enhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila"

#redox #metabolism #ageing #Drosophila

@natcomms.nature.com @mrc-lms.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1038/s414...