FlyBase @FlyBaseDotOrg
Curating and cataloging the world's data for fruit fly and related species into our database at http://t.co/NZ3GnTQlgJ. Aiding discovery since 1992. flybase.org Joined April 2012-
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Fly folk: The Amazing and essential @FlyBaseDotOrg is in existential need due to Trump termination of the grant that supports this vital resource. Please donate to help keep Flybase alive. I just did. Info here on how to make a tax deductible donation: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:C…
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Dear Drosophilist, if you haven’t done so, please support our vital resource and knowledgebase! It takes a lot of people and funding to produce, maintain, update, improve a resource like this, and our key source of funding has been terminated due to politics. Check our wiki page!
Dear Drosophilist, if you haven’t done so, please support our vital resource and knowledgebase! It takes a lot of people and funding to produce, maintain, update, improve a resource like this, and our key source of funding has been terminated due to politics. Check our wiki page!
Flybase, the repository that houses genetic and molecular data on the model organism Drosophila is at risk. The loss of FlyBase would have a significant and detrimental impact on the scientific community. @FlyBaseDotOrg
Flybase, the repository that houses genetic and molecular data on the model organism Drosophila is at risk. The loss of FlyBase would have a significant and detrimental impact on the scientific community. @FlyBaseDotOrg
#Drosophila community in the US and non- EU countries, please donate to help us support #Flybase. People behind the scenes have put in incredible effort over the past few months - as someone who has seen some of it first hand at #IUBloomington, they deserve all the praise.
#Drosophila community in the US and non- EU countries, please donate to help us support #Flybase. People behind the scenes have put in incredible effort over the past few months - as someone who has seen some of it first hand at #IUBloomington, they deserve all the praise.
#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences. @FlyBaseDotOrg 👉🏽docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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Harmit S. Malik @HarmitMalik
43K Followers 7K Following Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results). @HutchBasicSci @fredhutch @HHMINEWS He/him
Carlos Ribeiro @RibeiroCarlitos
9K Followers 3K Following Neuroscientist at Champalimaud - #food #brain #microbiome using #Drosophila. PI @RibeiroLab and Secretary General @FENSorg - also in the blue world
Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy
10K Followers 2K Following Associate of Professors, Aficionado of Synapses, Runner of Miles, Practicer of Kindness, Tracker of Tenure. In the wild blue yonder as Drosophilosophy.
Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab
18K Followers 328 Following A Cell & Developmental Biology lab @UBC working on the role of cell junctions in development, stem cells, tissue homeostasis. Same user name on Blue 🌌
Dan Tracey @Hoosierflyman
3K Followers 1K Following Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience. Interest in somatosensation, behavior, and molecular genetics. Cycling. Personal account, not-representing IU. he/him
Deepti Trivedi @deeptrivedivyas
2K Followers 491 Following Drosophila biologist, mostly posting Science and Art on twitter- Mine or others!
Genetics Society of A... @GeneticsGSA
27K Followers 6K Following The Genetics Society of America is a professional scientific society representing genetics researchers and educators globally.
Irene Miguel-Aliaga @FlyGutLab
3K Followers 1K Following Eternally asking questions. Likes guts. Has guts, and a lab @TheCrick
Taponlab @taponlab
1K Followers 288 Following We study development, growth and Hippo signalling @TheCrick. #drosophila #biophysics Tweets by @AnastasiaMorai. Title pic by @Maria_Diaz_Loza
Marco Milan @MarcoMilanIRB
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Tristan A F Long 🪰... @thelonglab
3K Followers 5K Following Associate Professor @Laurier @LaurierBiology Evolutionary Genetics & Behavioural Ecology #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts #JournalKlatch ORCID: 0000-0002-8708-2728
eric lai @lucksmith
2K Followers 686 Following i play indie rock and study fly mutants. small RNA/APA/splicing/m6A/Notch. neural development+behavior; genomic conflict+evolution. @lucksmith.bsky.social
RewitzLab @LabRewitz
553 Followers 226 Following We use the model insect Drosophila melanogaster to study totes dope hormonal regulation of growth & development, as well as models of neuropsychatric disorders.
Flying thru Science @Sci_Flies
824 Followers 170 Following A site to learn about Biology with Drosophila flies. Store: https://t.co/7ZIo7V80rR Support: https://t.co/ZpQk7wvdDk
Perrimon Lab @PerrimonLab
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Yanlan Mao @YanlanMao
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Rohan Khadilkar @RohanKhadilkarr
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Jason Tennessen @TennessenLab
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Rachel Smith-Bolton @SmithBoltonLab
796 Followers 601 Following We use Drosophila to study tissue repair and regeneration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also https://t.co/Fk6HNbxzOp
Bardin Lab @bardinlab... @BardinLab
1K Followers 390 Following Allison Bardin's lab at @institut_curie. We study stem cells and tissue homeostasis in the gut of #Drosophila melanogaster. Tweets are from Allison.
Deepa Venugopal @venugopal92565
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Susan St. Pierre @susa93515
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Tolulope Kolapo @tolulope_kolapo
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Oliver Carty @carty_oliv27109
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D R Raghuram @pseudodoctor
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Qazi Danish @QaziDanish61493
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Indian Drosophila Res... @InDRC_2025
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Ruth Brennan @rbrennan12
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Jay Joshi @jay_n_joshi
36 Followers 127 Following PhD Candidate in @AlexValvezan's lab, interested in the cell cycle control of metabolism.
Anjali Mishra @anjali461721
89 Followers 4K Following @Biochemistry Undergraduate student at @Indira Gandhi National Open University
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Dean Geckt @deangeckt
116 Followers 230 Following Computational neuroscientist PhD student @ELSCbrain, @Segev_Lab. Previously AI researcher @Microsoft.
A A @SewerRat1761
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Air King @Airking731
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Rishi Kumar @riscxi
20 Followers 349 Following 5th year - Integrated MSc. in Life Science at ISERC, @Visva_Bharati_ | Master's thesis research @IITKanpur
RNA_EYE @RNA_COP
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Wami @Wami113
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Daniel Kueh @danielkueh
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Dexter White @Dexter_White1
206 Followers 240 Following Researcher 1 at University of Minnesota Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development. BS/MS Biochemistry, Kansas State University.
Nikoletta Kalenderogl... @NKalenderoglou
132 Followers 482 Following #BBSRC #ResearchFellow studying #adipocyte tau's role in #metabolism, #obesity, #aging, and its links to #metabolic dysfunction. New to #drosophila research 🪰
Inject + Matic ® @injectmatic
0 Followers 23 Following INJECT+MATIC has created, developed and commercialized products designed for scientific research. The majority of our products are the result of specific reques
Montalcini @montalcinihq
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Sudip Giri @Bunyy99
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Yiwen Chen @chenyw35
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@kuhnbobio @KuhnboBio
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Shubham Anand @ShubhamAna30315
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CHUMAMIC @okaplagu37197
13 Followers 193 Following
蔡杨 @cdcaiyang
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Ramita @As_unik_as_me
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Lora Fahdan @LFahdan22963
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Matthew Prifti @MVPrifti
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Genetics Society of A... @GeneticsGSA
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Perrimon Lab @PerrimonLab
4K Followers 90 Following Dr. Norbert Perrimon's lab at Harvard Medical School researches functional genomics, cell circuitry, and tissue homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster.
Jason Tennessen @TennessenLab
826 Followers 783 Following
EDRC2023 @EDRC2023
714 Followers 9 Following Official account of #EDRC2023 (formerly #EDRC2021), 27th European Drosophila Research Conference to be held in Lyon, France from October 20th to 23rd, 2023.
Fly-EDS @Fly_EDS
2K Followers 163 Following We are the European Drosophila Society. Find us on @Fly-EDS.bsky.social. Logo: MC Diaz de la Loza, fly pic: N. Gompel
Drosophila Research a... @DrosophilaRTC
2K Followers 430 Following Drosophila Research and Training in Africa For Scientific Advancement. Email: [email protected]
Leslie Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall
23K Followers 837 Following VP/CSO @HHMInews & Head of #VosshallLab @rockefelleruniv Toward Excellent, Inclusive, & Open Science. See also @leslievosshall.bsky.social
The Pfam database @PfamDB
2K Followers 1K Following The Pfam Protein Families database. Providing protein family HMMs since 1996.
BioCyc&Pathway Tools @BioCyc
426 Followers 7 Following BioCyc: microbial-genome web portal with predicted metabolic pathways and omics analysis tools. Pathway Tools: metabolic reconstruction and modeling software.
ChEBI @chebit
1K Followers 44 Following Chemical Entities of Biological Interest is a freely available dictionary of molecular entities focused on ‘small’ chemical compounds.
QuickGO @QuickGO_EBI
330 Followers 98 Following QuickGO is a fast web-based browser of the Gene Ontology and Gene Ontology annotation data.
Complex Portal @complexportal
739 Followers 120 Following The Complex Portal is a manually curated, encyclopaedic resource of macromolecular complexes from a number of key model organisms. Also follow➡️@intact_project
InterPro @InterProDB
2K Followers 2K Following InterPro provides functional analysis of proteins by classifying them into families and predicting domains and important sites
GlobalBiodata @globalbiodata
810 Followers 290 Following The Global Biodata Coalition convenes the world’s life science research funders to address the challenge of sustainable funding for biodata resources globally.
cactusflybase @cactusflybase
21 Followers 22 Following https://t.co/fDz8Qd8mhu Cactusflybase is a genomic data repository for cactophilic Drosophila
NCBI @NCBI
73K Followers 83 Following Official account of the National Center for Biotechnology Information at @NLM_NIH. Privacy: https://t.co/HCI6YakCFK | Website help: [email protected]
microPublication @Micropub7n
2K Followers 173 Following Publishing brief and citable scientific observations.
Janelia GENIE @janeliagenie
1K Followers 1 Following Follow for latest info about the Janelia GENIE project. Throwing proteins at the wall and seeing what fluoresces.
Ruth Lehmann @REMLehmann
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ModelMatcher @modelmatchernet
97 Followers 30 Following https://t.co/itXmFyZuj7 helps pair up researchers and physicians around the world to help us better understand and manage rare genetic diseases
i5K ArthropodGenomes @Arthropod_i5K
944 Followers 89 Following The i5K initiative plans to sequence the genomes of 5,000 insect and related arthropod species.
pAbmAbs @pAbmAbs
75 Followers 25 Following The largest database for antibody reviews by scientist for scientists. let's share our experience @ https://t.co/i2eAJnKLJE -free from any commercial interests!
ASHG @GeneticsSociety
52K Followers 309 Following The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is the world's largest professional membership organization for human genetics & genomics specialists.
Bing Zhang @Goodflies
2K Followers 1K Following A neuroscientist, fly geneticist, & professor trying to solve the mysteries of the brain in health and disease. Cornell Alum Go BigRed Views & RT are mine.
Omar Harb 🍉 @omartheharb
2K Followers 1K Following
ELIXIR Europe @ELIXIREurope
10K Followers 1K Following Research infrastructure bringing together Europe's #bioinformatics resources. Store, analyse, share, & reuse data
DrosAfrica @DrosAfrica
471 Followers 75 Following
National Drosophila S... @_NDSSC
35 Followers 13 Following The NDSSC at Cornell University provides over 250+ Drosophila species to scientific researchers and educators
MARRVEL @MARRVEL_NRI
87 Followers 114 Following https://t.co/qBSl7FigwO (Model organism Aggregated Resources for Rare Variant ExpLoration) facilitates the use of public genetic resources to prioritize rare human variants
Bgee database @Bgeedb
466 Followers 59 Following Database of gene expression @ISBSIB @unil Find us here: Bsky: @bgee.org Mastodon: @[email protected] LinkedIn: https://t.co/cynwqXFr2V
Brian Oliver @BrianOliverLab1
403 Followers 243 Following Drosophilist. Gardener. Cook. Camper. Opinions are my own. pronoun: yeye
Addgene @Addgene
21K Followers 9K Following Sharing speeds science! Addgene helps scientists around the world find and share research materials - plasmids, viral preps, antibodies, data, and more.
EMBL @embl
67K Followers 921 Following The European Molecular Biology Laboratory drives visionary basic research and technology development in the life sciences. 🦋 https://t.co/r840DbdMXO
dictyBase @dictybase
245 Followers 17 Following Model organism database for Dictyostelium (social amoeba)
Xenbase @Xenbase
859 Followers 818 Following Xenbase: Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis biology and genomics resource
Fly Cell Atlas @FlyCellAtlas
598 Followers 9 Following
tagtog @tagtog_net
2K Followers 363 Following
Rat Genome Database @ratgenome
221 Followers 169 Following The Rat Genome Database (RGD) was established in 1999 and is the premier site for genetic, genomic, phenotype, and disease data generated from rat research
DRSC-BTRR & DRSC-TRiP... @DRSC_TRiP
965 Followers 53 Following Account for the DRSC-BTRR (NIH P41 GM132087), current iteration of the DRSC & TRiP, a community-focused facility for fly and other insect genetic technology R&D
REDfly @REDfly_database
218 Followers 144 Following
National Human Genome... @genome_gov
81K Followers 385 Following Funding research at the forefront of genomics to improve human health. Formerly the Human Genome Project. https://t.co/4hdQRFkFNU
NIH @NIH
1.7M Followers 228 Following Official account of the National Institutes of Health. NIH...Turning Discovery Into Health®. Privacy Policy: https://t.co/wOGwZ3gX1M Engagement ≠ endorsement
Manolis Kellis @manoliskellis
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VDRC @VDRC_flies
401 Followers 275 Following Vienna Drosophila Resource Center (VDRC) - supporting Drosophila research worldwide with fly resources and services!
HGNC @genenames
836 Followers 290 Following The only worldwide authority providing unique names to human genes