FlyBase:Drosophila Community Service Award
Drosophila Community Service Award
The Drosophila Community Service award is given once a year to acknowledge outstanding contributions to the Drosophila community. The award was initiated in 2021 in gratitude for the service of colleagues like Dan Lindsley, Kathy Matthews and Bill Gelbart, with the first award announced in 2023. A major goal of the award is to raise awareness within the Drosophila community about the depth and diversity of efforts supporting its success.
Any member of the Drosophila research community is eligible, including professionals not holding traditional tenure-track positions. A team or small group may also be recognized. The awardee(s) are announced at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference each year.
List of Awardees
2026: REDFly Database Team & FlyBase Developer Team
for Development of online repositories for the dissemination and analysis of Drosophila data
- REDFly Database Team: Tom Furlani, Steve Gallo, Andrew Bruno, Matt Jones (University at Buffalo); Casey Bergman (FlyReg Database); Steve Gallo, Jeff Palmer, John Rivera, Angel Villahoz-Baleta, Chaitanya Yeole, Xinbo Huang (developers); Ben Des Soye, Mike Simich, Kim Loguiarto, Soile Keränen, students from UB and CUNY (curators); Rebecca Spokony, Krista Dobi (Baruch College-CUNY); Andy Schroeder, Gil dos Santos (FlyBase)
- FlyBase Developer Team: Gil dos Santos, Ian Longden, Christopher J. Tabone, Pinglei Zhou (database developers); Seth Campbell, Victor Strelets, Jim Thurmond (web developers); Kris Broll, Mark Zytkovicz (system administrators); Carol Sutherland (administrative support); Susan Russo Gelbart (program director); and all previous developers on the team.
2025: Gene Disruption Project & DRSC/TRiP-Functional Genomics Resources
for Development of technology and resources that enable a broad range of studies within the Drosophila research community
- Gene Disruption Project: Koen Venken, Oguz Kanca, Pei-Tseng Lee, Sonal Nagarkar Jaiswall, Wen-Wen Lin (Baylor College of Medicine); Bob Levis (Carnegie); Jonathan Zirin, Yanhui Claire Hu (Harvard Medical School); Roger Hoskins (LBNL)
- DRSC/TRiP-Functional Genomics Resources at Harvard Medical School: Stephanie Mohr (Drosophila RNAi Screening Center); Liz Perkins, Jonathan Zirin, Jianguan Ni (Transgenic RNAi Project); Yanhui Claire Hu (Online tools)
2024: Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center
for Cataloging, maintaining, and distributing Drosophila stocks for the worldwide research community
- Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center at Indiana University: Kevin Cook, Annette Parks, Cale Whitworth, Sam Zheng; all staff members and stock-keepers past and present for their contributions and substantial efforts.
2023: James Thompson, Thomas Brody & FlyBase Curatorial Team
for Gathering and organizing the information that drives Drosophila research
- James Thompson (for Drosophila Information Services)
- Thomas Brody (for Interactive Fly)
- Curatorial Team at FlyBase: Giulia Antonazzo, Helen Attrill, Lynn Crosby, Damien Goutte-Gattat, L. Sian Gramates, Victoria Jenkins, Aoife Larkin, TyAnna Lovato, Steven Marygold, Beverley Matthews, Alex McLachlan, Gillian Millburn, Arzu Öztürk-Çolak, Clare Pilgrim; all past curators for their contributions and substantial efforts.