Three fantastic keynote lectures to kick off #EDRC2025 Lucia Prieto-Godiño @crick.ac.uk the @embo.org sponsored lecture, Romain Levayer @pasteur.fr and Marta Llimargas @ibmb-csic.bsky.social

Contrats to Dominique Ferrandon’s team @adrienfranchet.bsky.social

REFEREE 1: “I conclude with a simple, direct statement - this is the best paper I have read all year!” #TransparentPeerReview Co-evolving infectivity and expression patterns drive the diversification of endogenous retroviruses @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Why use #CRISPR in #Drosophila when RNAi works so well? Because for some genes well is not good enough. Check out new preprint from the lab demonstrating a role for Vps15 in Wingless trafficking. Something that was missed in several RNAi screens. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking forward to the Physics within the Cell workshop on 16th June. Join if you want to discuss molecular motors and intracellular transport with me. More info here: iop.eventsair.com/pwtc2025/

1/10 Today in @science.org in collaboration with the Liu group we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells. drive.google.com/file/d/1I-Ub...

📣 #Drosophila news! 🪰 The AMP mutant lines from Hanson et al. (bit.ly/eLifeHanson) & the many isogenic immunity strains generated by @lmvteixeira.bsky.social & @brunolemaitre.bsky.social groups are now in @vdrc-flies.bsky.social! Find the 40 DrosDel Immunity Panel strains in VDRC library DD-Im ⬇️

📣 Junior PI Opportunity Join CNRS Strasbourg to lead cutting-edge research on host-pathogen interactions in insects 🪰 450k€ package | Drosophila, RNA, immunity IBMC + Labex NetRNA network 📅 Apply by June 30, 2025 🔗 ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi... #RNA #Insects #Drosophila #NetRNA #Immunity #JobAlert

Checkout our last paper about Dicer-2 interactome in vivo dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #RNAi #Dicer #Drosophila

An intercellular metabolic relay for brain sparingin Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.645514v1

Hey fellow Drosophila researchers - if you haven't heard, the UMGC is offering ultra low-cost genome sequencing! See here to learn more: z.umn.edu/UMGC-MOSS #Dros25

Application for Master in Integrative Biological Sciences (iBioS) - Apply on MonMaster before March 24th. Details on the flyer. imcbio.unistra.fr/imcbio-train...

We are looking for a #postdoc to discover cell-autonomous innate immune antiviral factors in mammals, based on newly-identified defense of prokaryotes! #EvoCure #comparativeImmunology #virology Please share @inserm.fr @ciri-lyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social ciri.ens-lyon.fr/teams/lp2l/j...

We are pleased to announce registration for RNA 2025 - the 30th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society - is now open! www2.rnasociety.org This year’s meeting will be held at the beautiful Town and Country Resort & Convention Center in sunny San Diego, California, USA from May 27th - June 1st, 2025.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @marvintanenbaum.bsky.social Fantastic study by the Tanenbaum lab

ECR fellowship for 2 years abroad. Excellent funding & offers the chance to build your own research direction. 📣 I have a non-model #Drosophila system ripe for collaboration - it's got a balancer chromosome, so GAL4/UAS becomes feasible. #EvolBio questions with functional genetics! Happy to chat.

Our paper out @CellCellPress: Structure guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity Congrats Erez Yirmiya, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai, our collaborators at the Kranzusch lab, and coauthors A 🧵 1/10 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

📢Job alert We have two postdoctoral positions available, starting in Spring 2025. These positions are part of research funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, focused on exploring evolutionary immunology (Evo-Immuno). #Postdoc #InnateImmunity Do not hesitate to contact us. ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi...

Time to share our organelle proteome paper out in @cellcellpress.bsky.social: doi.org/nzwz We created a spatial map of human cells using organelle immunoprecipitation at scale. Locate your fav protein among the 7,600 we mapped across 19 subcellular compartments: organelles.sf.czbiohub.org/ 1/3 🧪

📢Job alert Are you interested in Drosophila genetics, insects, innate immunity, evolution? We are offering an exciting Group Leader position within the NetRNA consortium (labex-netrna.cnrs.fr/presentation...) See below for more information and do not hesitate to contact us.

Calling all Junior(-ish) Drosophila Investigators 📣📣📣 Join us in June for the JEDIs Resurection : flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202... ✅presentations from participants, ✅panel on publishing (with fantastic guests) ✅plenty of time for socializing Register asap to help us with the first headcount

Drosophila and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum in the spotlight (again), what a wonderful model (disclaimer I am biased ;-) ). Congrats Will and team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ICYMI: we wrote a book. It's a free PDF, but you can also get a physical copy just in time for the holidays. Probably. I dunno. We don't actually get money from it. This was a labour of love by Hannah & Bruno. Also I helped. Stocking stuffer idea: USB loaded with The #Drosophila Immunity Handbook 🪰

Abstract submissions for Fly meeting in San Diego 2025 close soon. If you or your trainees are planning to attend, please send in your abstracts to maximize chances of being selected for a platform presentation: genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

Glad to share our latest review on innate antiviral immunity in animals with Joao Marques & Jean-Luc Imler www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Antiviral RNA interference targets viral transcripts but not genomes of RNA viruses in Drosophila melanogaster https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.10.588985v1

Congratulations to Jean-Luc IMLER for @ERC_Research Advanced Grants! Let's have fun on exciting Evo-immuno's project . #ERCAdG #unistra, #CNRS, #IBMC @unistra.fr

⚠️ Junior chair position - BIOLOGY OF HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS BEYOND VERTEBRATES #M3i #labexNetRNA labex-netrna.cnrs.fr/2024/02/23/j...

Portrait of Lihua Li - IMCBio Phd student in our lab. imcbio.unistra.fr/welcome-to-i...

⚠️ Assistant Professor position in Virology #JoaoMarques, #Jean-Luc Imler, @unistra.fr

Please to share our data about Dicer-2 interactome in vivo.

Our last review on evo-immuno. "Evolutionary immunology to explore original antiviral strategies" doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

Ever wondered how eukaryotic cells got their nucleus? If so, check out Anja and my new hypothesis article - which builds on the ‘inside-out model of eukaryogenesis’: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Major discovery by the Marrafini lab ! t.co/H05iCNc8Cm