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- the FlyBase U.S. fee system will be set up soon.

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🧠 VFB just expanded NBLAST similarity scores to include male-CNS optic lobe & FAFB-FlyWire datasets! Now easier to find morphologically similar neurons across connectomes & identify potential split-GAL4 drivers. Big win for #neuroscience #flyresearch 🔬

virtualflybrain.org/blog/2025/05...

Now official: our next
@embl.org
course on #Drosophila
Genetics & Genomics will be held 3-8 Aug '25. Send in your applications!
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@flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @virtualflybrain.bsky.social

Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

Nominations are open (until Dec 13) for the Larry Sandler Award, presented each year to an outstanding recent graduate who has completed a PhD in an area of Drosophila research. They'll present the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture at the conference's opening session.
genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

Are you aware of our collection of #Drosophila #history articles? Feel free to suggest more!!!!!!!! droso4public.wordpress.com/history/

Larval split-GAL4 line raw images release
Raw images from the 1020 Larval split-GAL4 lines and 350 Generation 1 LexA lines included in Meissner et al., 2024 are now available on VFB.

virtualflybrain.org/blog/2024/03...