Great experience at the Yersinia XV International Symposium with the PYP team of the @ciilofficiel.bsky.social ! Excellent talks, and exciting networking opportunities with colleagues from around the world. Huge congratulations to Alex, Amel and Seb for their presentations 👏🏻👏🏻

#JournalClub An atlas for tick immune cells #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you very much @shawlab.bsky.social for highlighting our work! Looking forward to reading new exciting findings from your lab 🙌🏻 rdcu.be/eBNt1

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

📣 Ever considered applying for a ERC Starting Grant? The 2026 Call for proposals is now open! Application portal 👉 lnkd.in/dcsPAwqJ Information for Applicants 👉 lnkd.in/dsE6B8eE Deadline to apply for #ERCStG is 14 October 2025.

Celebrating the holiday weekend with another bang! Our work describing roles of TNF signaling on mosquito immune cell function and in limiting malaria parasite infection is now published. Big shout out to @georgesaman.bsky.social and others for their contributions! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Despite all the shit going on, we have to celebrate our victories. New publication with @entomososwin.bsky.social and @vectorimmunity.bsky.social showing that hemocytes play a central role in disseminating flaviviruses to secondary tissues potentially functioning as a Trojan Horse(TBD) rdcu.be/euj4g

🎉 Our study is now published in Cell Genomics ! Thank to our reviewers for helping us further improve our work, and congratulations to @tompvial.bsky.social who lead this project and the entire team that made it possible ! www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Agustin Rolandelli ( @rolandelliagus.bsky.social ) on his success in the #Inserm recruitment competition! He will be joining the CIIL as a tenured researcher, focusing on insect immunity during infection. Welcome aboard! 🦠🪲 #Research #Inserm #CIIL #Immunity #InsectScience

The #Drosophila community can donate to the European side to save FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social at the following link: www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

🚨 New publication in Star Protocols @cp-starprotocols.bsky.social A step-by-step #protocol to quantify Yersinia pestis colonization in the #flea Xenopsylla cheopis using #fluorescence #microscopy & #ImageJ. @ciilofficiel.bsky.social @plbs-lille.bsky.social #plague #microbiology #OpenAccess

📣 #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 ⬇️

Calling all vector ecology/biology students!!! Would you like an opportunity to serve as Student Director? Submit your statement of interest by May 23rd!

Exciting Opportunity! The Mouse Genetics Lab @institutpasteur.bsky.social is seeking a #postdoc researcher to explore the genetic determinants of Zika virus transmission in #mice and #mosquitoes. Join us in advancing public health research with cutting-edge resources! #Virology #Genetics #ZIKV 🦠🔬

We’re still hiring! Are you passionate about supporting research? Love working with cell lines, fluorescence microscopy & molecular biology? Join our supportive & friendly team! #NewPI #ResearchJobs #MolecularBiology #FluorescenceMicroscopy #CellBiology #LifeScienceJobs 🔬🧫💡👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

🚨 Another opportunity to join the PYP team at @ciilofficiel.bsky.social 🦠 We're hiring an Engineer to support the technical and administrative work on an exciting project studying the #biology of #fleas! 🧬 🔬Profile: MSc in Biology or related fields. 📅Start: June–July 2025 (up to 3 years) #VBD

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Exciting #Postdoc opportunity to lead a project on #flea #biology and #microbe #interactions, in the PYP team at the @ciilofficiel.bsky.social ! 🧬🦠 🔬 Profile: PhD in Biology, Immunology, or related. 📆 Start: June-July 2025 (up to 3 years) Apply now! #VBD #PostdocJobs #Plague

www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int... Many thanks to Chris Smith and the @NakeScientists for the short podcast about our recent publication on #Nitisinone & #Anopheles #mosquitoes

Excited to finally announce this work which has been in the pipeline for 5 years: Layers of Immunity. Faustine et al. made a set of immune mutants covering 4 major immune modules in #Drosophila, deleting melanization (ROS), phagocytosis, and both Toll & Imd NF-kB responses. What did we find? 1/n 🧵

Join us at @pasteurlille.bsky.social ! We're hiring a Facility Manager specializing in human iPSCs, organoids, and organ-on-chip technologies. Drive innovation in cutting-edge biomedical research. Apply now! Contact Dr Alexandre Grassart #CDP @univlille.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social

Gracias!

#StandUpforScience 2025 – Because science is a common good. The @ciilofficiel.bsky.social was present alongside all colleagues on the @pasteurlille.bsky.social campus. #ScienceForAll @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @inserm.fr @chulille.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social

Científico Latino is here to support you with resources, opportunities, and updates. Check out our latest newsletter for career opportunities, GSMI updates, and more! 💫 🔗 mailchi.mp/cientificola...

Science, research & public health face unprecedented attacks in the U.S. We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call. Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊ 📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu 🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr #StandUpForScience

With all the chaos going on, I’m excited to share a bit of good news: this September I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Lyme & Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute at @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social ! 🥹

Hello new friends! I'm Cassandra, a vector biologist at Institut Pasteur and today is my official first day as a #newPI!!! My team will study virus-virus-host interactions using mosquitoes, specifically the influence of the mosquito virome on the transmission of arboviruses like dengue and Zika 🧵1/5

Nice piece in @plosbiology.org about how to use #GitHub to run your wet lab, enhancing reproducibility and facilitating collaborations. Includes a template (github.com/rasilab/gith...) and examples...

I’m over the moon to receive a #MSCA Fellowship to continue studying flea biology at @pasteurlille.bsky.social, @ciilofficiel.bsky.social!! 🦠🧬 On to new scientific adventures exploring these fascinating vectors and their role in disease transmission. 🔬 #Entomology #VectorBiology #VBDs

#FluorescenceFriday Image of Yersinia pestis (in green, GFP+) within the proventriculus (in orange, autofluorescence) of the oriental rat flea Xenopsylla cheopis. Dewitte et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2023

El mate es una bebida antioxidante y estimulante que reduce la sensación de fatiga y ayuda a despejarse. En este sentido, aporta los mismos beneficios que el consumo moderado de cafeína y los mismos perjuicios del exceso. Su consumo crece sin parar en España

Latest preprint from the Lab, co-led by Cathy Ramos, lecturer in the team and pushed to the final line by Longwei Bai, Ph’d candidate. Deals with microbiome (what else… 😉), guts and steroid hormone in flies. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #SymbioSky #DevBio #Drosofeed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Another great position in the lab! 🦠🧫🔬

We are looking forward to working with you! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

🌍🔬 Ancient DNA is unlocking the secrets of Yersinia pestis and its role in historical plague pandemics. Future research must diversify sampling across regions and hosts to truly understand the onset, spread, and impact of these pandemics. 🧬📜 #AncientDNA #Plague #EvolutionaryBiology

Great looking group leader position at CNRS Strasbourg on host-pathogen interactions in insects

Poidevin, M., Mazuras, N., Bontonou, G., ...., Gillet, C., Wicker-Thomas, C., Montagne, J. (2024). A fatty acid anabolic pathway in specialized-cells sustains a remote signal that controls egg activation in #Drosophila. PLoS Genet, 20(3):e1011186 journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

PGN is such a phenomenal intra- and inter-kingdom signalling molecule! #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

Excited to share the major work of my dissertation, out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We use Drosophila genetics to dissect the evolution of phage-derived toxins that were horizontally transferred to insects and now function as potent anti-parasitoid defenses (1/n): tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr

Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément

Bacteria and other infectious critters that are transmitted by ticks! 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬 go.bsky.app/KJF4sSt

I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰

"#Drosophila larvae use their taste system to detect bacterial peptidoglycans in their environment and respond by modulating the activity of their cellular immune system. We show that specific PeptidoGlycan Receptor Proteins act in bitter taste neurons, via the IMmune Deficiency pathway" #Preprint

PLOS to move away from APC model. PLOS moves designed to make publishing equitable. plos.org/redefining-p... #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

PhD studentship in Penryn UK studying #Immune signalling evolution in a #genetic model #Drosophila system! Also cosupervising a 2nd studentship with Ko-Fan Chen (U. Leicester). Please reach out via email or lab website. This competitive opportunity is open to international students. #PhDchat

We are receiving applications for the Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course in 2025. We have NSF-funded scholarships available @ui-ihhe.bsky.social @reginakarin.bsky.social

Hey #Drosophila and insect folks community: I'm curious about affordable dissecting scope options to upgrade the available stations in my lab. Any recommendations? Willing to hear everything from the cheap-but-functional options to genuinely good (expensive) equipment. 🧵 1/3

Happy Fly Day! November 18th is #Drosophila day. It commemorates the isolation of a white-eyed mutation, which is now used across the world. That mutation is white[1118], with the numbers standing for Nov 18th, the day it was isolated by Bob Levis. 🪰

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...