The 2nd Mexican Drosophila Research Conference (MexFly) took place on June 30th and July 1st, 2016 in Mexico City, at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav). Principal investigators, postdocs, students, and technicians from Drosophila labs across Mexico attended. The guest speaker was Chris Rushlow from New York University, who presented work on Zelda, a key transcriptional activator of the early zygotic genome. Here we provide a brief report of the meeting, which sketches the present landscape of Drosophila research in Mexico. We also provide a brief historical note on one of the pioneers of the field in this country, Victor Salceda, personally trained by Theodosius Dobzhansky. Salceda presented at the meeting an update of his collaborative project with Dobzhansky on the distribution of Drosophila pseudoobscura chromosomal inversions, initiated over forty years ago.

第二届墨西哥果蝇研究会议（MexFly）于2016年6月30日至7月1日在墨西哥城的国家技术学院（Cinvestav）研究和高级研究中心举行。来自墨西哥果蝇实验室的首席研究员，博士后，学生和技术人员参加了会议。演讲嘉宾是来自纽约大学的Chris Rushlow，他介绍了Zelda（早期合子基因组的关键转录激活因子）的研究成果。在这里，我们提供了会议的简要报告，其中概述了墨西哥果蝇研究的现状。我们还简要介绍了该国的先驱之一Victor Salceda，他是由Theodosius Dobzhansky亲自培训的。Salceda在会议上介绍了他与Dobzhansky合作发布的关于果蝇伪暗染色体反转，始于四十年前。