After already one week of our traditional Drosophila Neurogenetics school things are starting to fall into rhythm. This year we are at IMTU, Dar es Salaam with students coming from 11 different African countries: Nigeria, Sudan, Zambia, Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi, Cameroon, Tanzania, Madagascar, Ghana, Etiopia!

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Many thanks to our sponsors, which this year include IBRO, ISN, COB, Cambridge Alborada Fund, hhmi Janelia and others!

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2016 Faculty:

Tom Baden (University of Sussex, UK)

Sarah Carl (FMI Basel, Switzerland)

Chuan Cao (University of Cambridge, UK)

Ansa Cobham (Monash University, Australia)

Chris Elliot (University of York, UK)

Yunusa M Garba (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Franne Kamhi (Macquarie University, Australia)

Conor McMeniman (John Hopkins University, USA)

Lucia Prieto Godino (CIG, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Georg Raiser (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Ihab Riad (University of Khartoum, Sudan)

Steve Russell (University of Cambridge, UK)

Marta Rivera Alba (Janelia Research Campus, USA)

Juan Sanchez Alcaniz (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Horst Schneider (Beemedic, Germany)

Sadiq Yusuf (IMTU, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)