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Flies at the Farm:
Drosophila at Janelia

Kevin Moses

volume 1 | issue 3

May/June 2007
Pages: 139 - 141

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On August 1, 2006 the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s first stand-alone research campus opened at Janelia Farm, near Washington DC. Our mission at Janelia is to do exceptional fundamental research. Our two scientific foci are to understand the function of neural circuits and to develop synergistic imaging technologies. To achieve this we have changed many of the conventions of academic and/or industrial science. The founding director at Janelia is the well-known Drosophilist Gerry Rubin, who has been a central figure in fly molecular, developmental and genomic biology in recent decades. Not coincidentally, we at Janelia fully appreciate the potential of flies to contribute to an understanding of neuronal circuits. Our objectives are ambitious, and in the first ten months of operations at Janelia we have made some good beginnings which I will describe below.

Authors

Kevin Moses

Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Ashburn, VA USA



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