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Drosophila Spain @drosospain.bsky.social · 7d

We are back from #EDRC2025 and very thankful to all our #DrosoSpain colleagues for the fantastic organization. It was great to see you all and we are looking forward to seeing you all in next year’s #DrosoSpain2026 . Stay tuned for a “savethedate” very soon!

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Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH @neuroalc.bsky.social · 9d

🪰 More than 750 scientists from 40+ countries gathered in Alicante for the XXVIII European Drosophila Research Conference #EDRC2025.
For 4 days, the fruit fly took center stage as a model to study health, aging, and disease👏
@edrc2025.bsky.social
@csic.es @dicv.csic.es @umh.es

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 10d

That’s a wrap! We are done with #EDRC2025 and we look forward to seeing everyone again in 2027 for #EDRC2027 in Bonn!

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 11d

We are on day 3 of #EDRC2025 continuing with excellent #Drosophila science

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Lucia Prieto Godino @neuroluci.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you @edrc2025.bsky.social !! What a great honour to give the first talk at this amazing meetin!

EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 13d

Three fantastic keynote lectures to kick off #EDRC2025 Lucia Prieto-Godiño @crick.ac.uk the @embo.org sponsored lecture, Romain Levayer @pasteur.fr and Marta Llimargas @ibmb-csic.bsky.social

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 12d

Welcome to the second day of #EDRC2025 starting with two great keynote lectures by Cassandra Extavour from Harvard University and Yulong Li from Peking University

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 13d

3, 2, 1 and we are on!!! #EDRC2025 is starting! Welcome to our more than 740 participants from more than 40 countries! Thank you to all our sponsors!

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 13d

Welcome to the #EDRC2025 pre-opening workshops! #ECM #Drosophila

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 17d

#EDRC2025 is very grateful to all our platinum, gold and silver sponsors!

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · Sep 5

Attention #Drosophila PIs: registration for the 2026 #EMBO Crete Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila meeting is open!
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Marco MILAN LAB @milanlab.bsky.social · Sep 4

EMBO meeting on "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026
Registration is now open!
Deadline next November 3rd!
meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...

Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila

The principal theme of the EMBO Workshop is the Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila. Supported by EMBO over four decades, this will be the 24th biennial “Crete meeting”. With the a…

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 21d

We are extremely grateful to all our institutional aponsors. Without them, #EDRC2025 would not be possible! @csic.es @neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @embo.org @cienciagob.bsky.social

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 25d

Abstract submission is now closed but you can still register to #EDRC2025 until the meeting starts! Looking forward to seeing you all in Alicante!

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · Sep 4

There are only 8 days left to register to @edrc2025.bsky.social and we would like to thank all our sponsorss! We start acknowledging the support received from @biologists.bsky.social to #EDRC2025 Thank you!

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Morante lab @morantelab.bsky.social · Sep 2

There are only 10 days left to register for EDRC 2025! More information at edrc2025alicante.com
@edrc2025.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @drosospain.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social

EDRC 2025 Alicante

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corderolab.bsky.social @corderolab.bsky.social · Aug 11

2 post-doc positions open in the lab to do research on inter-organ signalling in regeneration and cancer in flies and mice.

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · Aug 3

The last (but not least) featured keynote speaker is Wei Zhang from Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences. Her research focuses on integrating experimental and computational approaches to investigate evolutionary innovation and functional diversification at the levels of micro and macroevolution.

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Morante lab @morantelab.bsky.social · Jul 30

Here is the full programme (edrc2025alicante.com/program/), including times and room allocation. We look forward to seeing you in Alicante in two months' time! @fly-eds.bsky.social @drosospain.bsky.social

Program | EDRC 2025 Alicante

edrc2025alicante.com

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Morante lab @morantelab.bsky.social · Jul 25

The event will begin with various workshops, information about which can also be found here. See you in Alicante in two months! @neuroalc.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @embo.org @elife.bsky.social
@gvaeducacio.bsky.social @umh.es @zantiks.bsky.social
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are pleased to announce the full #EDRC2025 programme is now live!

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

Another keynote speaker at #EDRC2025 is @mcgambetta.bsky.social from the Center for Integrative Genomics in Lausanne. Her research group is interested in the mechanisms of gene regulation, using #Drosophila as a model. Looking forward to her talk!

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · Jun 24

We have the honour of having Silke Sachse as one of our keynote speakers at #EDRC2025 . Silke leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena @maxplanck.de studying the neural mechanisms that enable animals to encode and interpret diverse odors that drive behavior.

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congratulations to the winner of the #EDS best PhD thesis prize Jack Holcombe, for his work "Dissecting Stress Resilience Mechanisms During Epithelial Homeostasis and Repair” conducted in the lab of Helen Weavers at the University of Bristol europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congratulations to @jackholcombe.bsky.social for his #EDS best PhD thesis award! Jack will give a plenary talk at #EDRC2025

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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · Jun 10

A keynote speaker at #EDRC2025 Ruben Artero is a Full Professor of #Genetics at the University of Valencia. His research focuses on the genetic mechanisms of muscular dystrophies. As a co-founder of Arthex Biotech, he is committed to drug discovery and the development of RNA-based therapies

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European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social · Jun 4

#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!

FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Jun 3

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 3

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

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