Drosophila Genomics and Genetic Resources

The 2nd Asia-Pacific Drosophila Research Conference was held from May 13-16, 2013, at Seoul National University. Takano-Shimizu made a presentation on the DGRC activity and discussed recent advances and future tasks of the stock center with attendees. The title and abstract of the presentation is as follows:

Renewed Drosophila Genetic Resource Center at Kyoto Institute of Technology
Toshiyuki Takano-Shimizu, Masatoshi Tomaru, Takashi Ohsako, and Masanobu Itoh
    Since its foundation in 1999, the Drosophila Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) has been collecting, maintaining, inspecting, and distributing a wide variety of strains of D. melanogaster and its close relatives for the worldwide fly community. The DGRC (often called "Kyoto Stock Center") is now recognized as one of the largest stock centers. In April 2012, we took over the duties of Dr. Yamamoto, who led the DGRC for the past 10 years or so. While the center's policy is passed on to the current generation of DGRC, approaches to contribute to the community would be more diversified. For users to search and order stocks more easily and more quickly, we have been developing the predefined sets of stocks; in the past year, we have added two sets, a modified DrosDel Core Deletion Kit and collection of de novo genes. We are also open to discuss possible uses of DGRC. Finally, we would like to encourage you to donate your important and useful stocks to DGRC for the whole fly community as well as yourself.

(TSK)