2025 European Drosophila Board elections: call for nominations

The European Drosophila Society needs you! For the 2025 elections, we are looking for Group Leaders representing the following five locations:

- 1 United Kingdom & Ireland representative

- 1 France representative 

- 1 Germany representative 

- 1 Switzerland/Austria representative 

- 1 Eastern Europe (Poland, Czechia, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Bulgaria,      Bosnia, Moldova, Russia) representative 

If you want to join the EDB to support our work promoting Drosophila research, either get a colleague to nominate you or self-nominate by writing to Sofia Araújo (sofiajaraujo@ub.edu) stating your name, email, institution, lab website link and a five-line statement explaining your background and why you are interested in joining the board by April 18^th. If you nominate someone else, please ask them if they are happy to stand for election and to write a statement.

The elections will be held as follows:

- Nominations closing date: April 18^th

- Vote opening date: April 28^th

- Vote closing date: May 23^rd

- Results announced at EDRC 2025 in Alicante (25-28 September 2025)

What is expected of European Drosophila Board members

EDB members will attend an annual board meeting. There is an in-person board meeting before each EDRC. In non-EDRC years, the meeting will take place either online, or in-person depending on the topics being discussed. EDB members will also participate in one or several EDB working groups which are aimed at promoting important Drosophila community initiatives. It is the responsibility of country/area representatives to seek out feedback from their constituents when needed to inform discussion during the annual EDB meetings.