Consultation on the 2009 White Paper


	Dear Fly Person, Every two years the Drosophila Board, together with extensive input from the fly community, revises and publishes the Drosophila Board White Paper. This document is extremely useful for informing NIH and NSF of our top research priorities. Past White Papers have helped to justify funding for valuable community resources such as insertion mutations, cDNA collections, FlyBase and fly and molecular stock centers. The White Paper is scheduled for an update this year, and I am writing to ask for your input. Please download and read the latest version of the White Paper: http://flybase.org/static_pages/news/whitepapers/DrosBoardWP2007.pdf Which projects on the list remain high priority? What are the bottlenecks to current research using Drosophila? What do you see as the emerging projects or technologies that should be encouraged or supported? Your input to this process is essential for maintaining and expanding our research tools. Please take the time to send your comments and ideas so that our stated priorities accurately represent the fly community for the next few years. Respond to me, to your regional Representative on the Board, or to any member of the Board. Our email addresses can be found at: http://flybase.org/static_pages/news/board.html Thank you for your help, Carl Thummel President, Drosophila Board

Dear Fly Person,

Every two years the Drosophila Board, together with extensive input from the fly community, revises and publishes the Drosophila Board White Paper. This document is extremely useful for informing NIH and NSF of our top research priorities. Past White Papers have helped to justify funding for valuable community resources such as insertion mutations, cDNA collections, FlyBase and fly and molecular stock centers. The White Paper is scheduled for an update this year, and I am writing to ask for your input.

Please download and read the latest version of the White Paper:

http://flybase.org/static_pages/news/whitepapers/DrosBoardWP2007.pdf

Which projects on the list remain high priority?
What are the bottlenecks to current research using Drosophila?
What do you see as the emerging projects or technologies that should be encouraged or supported?

Your input to this process is essential for maintaining and expanding our research tools. Please take the time to send your comments and ideas so that our stated priorities accurately represent the fly community for the next few years. Respond to me, to your regional Representative on the Board, or to any member of the Board. Our email addresses can be found at:

http://flybase.org/static_pages/news/board.html

Thank you for your help,

Carl Thummel
President, Drosophila Board