The 2nd edition of Comprehensive Molecular #Insect Science is out. As section editor for #Immunity and #Symbiosis, I had the privilege to work with outstanding contributors. Other sections cover #genomics, #physiology, #neurobiology, and #ecology 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/referencewor... #SymbioSky

So looking forward to this. Please sign up!!

Join us for a new zoom series on metabolism and development. This will be a monthly feature with PIs and trainees presenting. Sign up here (forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...) to get the Zoom link and join the mailing list.

Deadline approaching for the EMBO meeting "Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila" 21 – 27 June 2026. Both new and established PIs welcome. Apply by Nov 3rd! meetings.embo.org/event/26-dro...

Beautiful "fundamental physiology" paper in a glamour journal - there is still some hope! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First ad for a position in my new lab at the University of Bristol! If you are looking for a fully funded PhD in cutting edge science that will be based in a supportive environment, and in a great city, check out the link below! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames

Model organisms, in particular non-mammalian model organisms, such as yeast, Caenorhabditis elegans, #Drosophila and zebrafish, have long stood at the centre of biological discovery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come work with us!!

A gut-brain axis for aversive interoception drives innate and anticipatory emesis in Drosophila. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679515v1

💫NEW: @telemanlab.bsky.social & co demonstrate that #AMPK can be activated by signaling metabolite, #adenosine, under non-stress conditions during #Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth. bit.ly/4gX6njF

Passionate about doing a PhD on metabolism in neural stem cells and their niche? The call just opened for applications for a PhD position in our lab @crick.ac.uk in London. Please repost. tinyurl.com/ysnkdrmw

Excited to share our collaborative PhD project with Adam Dobson ([email protected]) on interorgan signalling in the ageing gut. Please contact Adam If you are a highly motivated student wanted to work on a super exciting Fly project.

Finally out! A longstanding project to explore the mechanism behind ectopic crypt formation in polyps when GREM1 is aberrantly expressed in HMPS patients. Turns out it is all to do with stromal remodelling and epithelial-mesenchymal interdependence! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking forward to seeing you at the @edrc2025.bsky.social You can find us - On Thursday 25th at the workshop: INTERORGAN COMMUNICATION IN THE ERA OF OMICS, - On Saturday morning 27th @alphyjohn.bsky.social will give a talk in the session stem cells and regeneration - On poster sessions

I have gotten a bit behind at sharing the lab’s latest work - this paper is now published - check it out! www.cell.com/cell-reports... Long story short: insulin is the major determinant of female fat storage, with a relatively minor effect on males.

🧬 Glasgow researcher Dr Alexander Raven has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to advance understanding of how liver cancer develops, with the aim of improving detection and treatment 📍 University of Glasgow 👇 Learn more glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/glasgow-canc...

📢Are you a talented #ECR looking to start your independent lab in state-of-the-art cancer research facilities? Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social as a Junior Group Leader! 👉Apply here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/grou... 📅Closing date: 10 October 2025

We are hiring! The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Cell and Developmental Biology is hiring a faculty member in the area of Aging, broadly defined. Come join us! Deadline is soon! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

A though provocative idea potentially connecting cell metabolic state and sensitivity to mechanical stress (and thus potentially relevant for cell competition)

Epithelial crowding drives membrane depolarisation by ENaC/Na+ entry which triggers rapid volume loss, piezo activation and live cell extrusion. Importantly, low intracellular ATP primes cells for live extrusion by preventing the restoring of mb polarisation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sex-biased expression of enteroendocrine cell-derived hormones contributes to higher fat storage in Drosophila females https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675263v1

📢 We are looking for a sandwich student to join the lab of @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social at the @crick.ac.uk for a 12-month placement starting July 2025! Interested in how the 🐁 gut changes during pregnancy? Check the project and eligibility criteria here: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

UK undergrads, apply to this programme for your chance to work with the one and only Dr ‪Amélie Joly‬!

We are highlighting Owen Sansom, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Monitoring Editor and co-organiser of the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @osansom.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social

The first September issue is live. www.embopress.org/toc/14693178... The cover features work by Cassie Clarke @cassiejclarke.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social and co-workers showing that UPP1 supports #metastasis by altering #immune and ECM landscapes. -> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

New publication from our lab, in Science Advances: Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don't miss our next webinar by Zoi Diamantopoulou on "Timing the perfect strike: Using circadian rhythms to target metastasis" - September 22, 2025 - more details and register here: metastasis-research.org/2025/09/11/z...

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? "Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection." journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Formal application for 2 posts-doctoral research positions in the lab can now be submitted here: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Latest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social labs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research is never a solo effort. It takes teamwork. It takes belief. It takes collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and communities. We know what it takes to beat blood cancer. #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth

Our new preprint is out ! We uncover how adult Drosophila muscles respond to injury through a coordinated dialogue between hemocytes, tracheal cells, and muscles. Check it out and please share @igdrennes.bsky.social

We cannot provide invoices at present but are working on a system to do so in the near future. However, you will receive a receipt for your tax-deductible donation. Large teams of people work to keep FlyBase going, and the need is great, so please donate generously.

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

2 post-doc positions open in the lab to do research on inter-organ signalling in regeneration and cancer in flies and mice.

Here is the full programme (edrc2025alicante.com/program/), including times and room allocation. We look forward to seeing you in Alicante in two months' time! @fly-eds.bsky.social @drosospain.bsky.social

Nature research paper: A gut sense for a microbial pattern regulates feeding go.nature.com/4oaiXPW

NEW content online!

We are looking for 2 postdocs to join my lab at Sussex University in Brighton, UK (South of London, on the sea). One position is for a molecular/cell biologist, the other, for a neurobiologist/behavioural person. Drosophila experience desirable. Flyer w/more info below. Please repost. Thank you!

Very happy and proud to share the latest work from our lab. Neuroendocrine control of intestinal regeneration through the vascular niche. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Comment on our @Reproducibility project in @Drosophila immunity. It is a normal that findings—however exciting and important at the time—may later prove to be more complex than initially believed. Re-evaluations is essential to the self-correcting nature of science. www.science.org/content/arti...

This isn't a coincidence, IMO. The fly community is generally super rigorous - because there are so many tools and techniques available, people expect you to really nail things in order to get published (and keep getting funded)

A new preprint from our lab.

Fantastic work by Nuria Romero and team! Check this out

Hello world! So lucky to host the one and only @lboulan.bsky.social tomorrow - come for the science, stay for the experience! @igred.fr

The daily war crimes from the genocidal regime continue without headlines aje.io/awhi55

Heads-up for major new faculty search at KI — with great startup packages and a wide range of subject areas.

The Cordero Lab has openings for two post-docs positions. Please contact me if you are interested in doing cross-species research on local and systemic intestinal biology.

Very nice piece bringing a lot of food for thought on how to rationalise our practices with fly pushing. It's been a long standing discussion on our side and I am gratefull someone did all the work estimating the impact of various practices.