Stephanie Toering Peters, a Wartburg College biology professor, presented “Building Bridges in Genomics Education: Regional Nodes as Catalysts for Distributed Faculty Collaboration” at the 2026 Genetics Society of America annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago on March 5.
The Annual Drosophila Research Conference is the premier meeting for Drosophila researchers with as many as 1,000 presenters annually. Drosophila is a genus of small flies, commonly referred to as fruit flies, that are used in research because of their significant genetic similarity to humans. At the conference, presenters share their findings on research done in the areas of genetics, molecular biology, cell biology, development, immunology, physiology, neuroscience, evolution and more.
Toering Peters is the Richard L. and Sandra K. Wahl Professor in Biology. At Wartburg, her research includes genome annotation; investigating the function of the gene l(2)37Cc, a homolog of the human Prohibitin protein, in Drosophila; and the role of particular genes in neurotransmission at the neuromuscular junction in Drosophila.
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