Eye development at the Houston "Fly Meeting".
The 47th Annual Drosophila Research Conference or "Fly Meeting" took place at Houston, Texas, USA from March 29th- April 2nd, 2006, under the aegis of the Genetics Society of America. The Fly Meeting provides an excellent opportunity for fly researchers to present their work and to get a snapshot of recent developments and upcoming trends in their research field. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster is a very versatile model to study growth, patterning, neural development, evolution, systemetics and various other facets of biomedical science. The topics presented in the meeting covered a very broad spectrum of fly research. In this commentary, I have focused mainly on the presentations related to two fields: 1) research in various fields that use the Drosophila eye as a model system, and 2) the community resources available to all fly researchers.
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Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. asingh@bcm.edu
D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D015509:Developmental Biology / Q000379:methods*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000196:embryology*; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D016678:Genome; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate / Q000196:embryology* / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction