Hi folks, Check out our updated website! Details on next year's conference will be posted there soon! fly-jedi.org

Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!​

There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase... We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us. #FlyBase #Drosophila

Hello everyone! We decided to automate our sign-up process for the JEDI network. Please register using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1IdO... Thanks to everyone who reached out! We are looking forward to building our community with you. Share and repost!!! #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Update from #EDRC2025! Four days of amazing talks and poster sessions and JEDIs have reconnected across geographical boundaries. Dinner was fun and we are looking forward to everyone at the next #Drosophila conference!

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to [email protected] to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to [email protected] to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Dear JEDIs, the #EDRC meeting is coming soon! Who is joining? Looking forward to meeting everyone next week!

@fly-jedi.bsky.social please note that @droseu.bsky.social is now on Bluesky

It is time to appreciate our sponsors for making the last #Drosophila JEDI meeting possible! Thank you! @fly-eds.bsky.social ‪ @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social

@richardsever.bsky.social @marialep.bsky.social and Prof. Almut Kelber for the panel discussion

Was a great pleasure to co-organise with @drosostalis.bsky.social @nkonst4.bsky.social @ksiudeja.bsky.social @linneweberlab.bsky.social Let's try to further the build and amplify that network! (and many thanks to @giorgio.gilest.ro for the transmission)

We want to thank everyone who attended this year's #Drosophila JEDI meeting at Château du Feÿ! Three days of amazing talks, great ideas and chat at the camp fire. We are looking forward to meeting everyone again at the next meeting!

Good food, nice venue, exceptional company and fantastic science. Food for body, soul and mind. My impression is that's the chemistry of a good flyJEDI meeting @fly-jedi.bsky.social

Very happy to be in the vibrant JEDI community and present my IMBB work, great science and fantastic people! @fly-eds.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @scentinel.bsky.social and special thanks to the organizers!

Apparently we do not have a JEDI starter pack yet. @fly-jedi.bsky.social and everyone else: let me know which other Junior European #Drosophila Investigators are missing! go.bsky.app/PcTGEMc

Very happy to share our latest lab publication! The hard work of @bboumard.bsky.social, Gwenn Le Meur and collaborators! Cell-type-specific nucleotide sharing through gap junctions impacts sensitivity to replication stress in Drosophila: Developmental Cell authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFi_Yv6z...

The problem of unreasonable demands for more experiments came up at @fly-jedi.bsky.social (and many recent meetings). And remember the editors response: we ask for these because _you_ demand them as referees…

Context

Ending the evening talks with @ksiudeja.bsky.social presentation of mobile elements in the génome of somatic cells

Christa Rhiner presenting the mechanisms involved in brain injury response in flies 😲

@crezaval.bsky.social on sex, competition on risk and reward assessment

Enjoying excellent talks from JEDIs at the Château where birds are singing outside the lecture hall (more like a tent) and we got visited by a dog and a fox plus many bumblebees! #flyJEDI2025 @fly-jedi.bsky.social @arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social

Pierre-Yves Plaçais presenting the role of feeding in memory formation

Greetings from the @fly-jedi.bsky.social conference in France at beautiful Chateau du Fey! Lots of amazing #Drosophila folks here!

Honorary (fly) JEDI today - inspiring group of young investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social flyjedi.sciencesconf.org

@nkonst4.bsky.social introducing the round table with Prof. Almut Kelber @giorgio.gilest.ro @richardsever.bsky.social and @marialep.bsky.social on the following subjects

SUSTAINABILITY & #DROSOPHILA - If you keep flies & have tried to re-use containers but then given up on it, please could you let us know & tell us the reasons? We urgently need statements for a publication about sustainability in fly labs. Please, contact [email protected]

Gerit A. Linneweber talking about individuality in Drosophila

Drosophila is a major model organism, and one of the most used resource for Drosophila data is in danger of disappearing because of budget cuts in the US. If you're supporting science in your heart but don't know how to do it in actions www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Lok at all that energy. Don't you want to become a JEDI?!

"how's that even remotely relevant to 'higher' organisms?!" Uh uh uh

After dinner session, flies rock obviously

First day of meeting going well and on schedule 😬

Oh, several points - to integrate myself into the European Drosophila "ecosystem" - fruitfull contacts which will host (and make use of) my students for an Erasmus, and send student to me in exchange As for community building, for flyJEDi rituals would be good (and I hope there will be :)

Traveling to meet fellow drosophilists! #flyJEDI2025 @fly-jedi.bsky.social @arcticautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social

I mostly just want the psychic mind powers

Go JEDIs Go!!!

BIG BIG question. What do you want to make out of the JEDI? How do you want to build the community? And what for? You have 72 hours 🤪

Kick-starting the #flyJEDI2025

JEDI meeting loading....!!! See you all very soon there!

A Paris...few days left for 2025 JEDI meeting @fly-jedi.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social SCENTINEL partners Vasiliki Theodorou (IMBB) @this account and Nikos Konstantinides (IJM) @nkonst4.bsky.social will represent the consortium and themselves

Ready?

Last week to submit abstracts! Looking forward to #EDRC2025 and amazing #Drosophila research in Alicante! @fly-eds.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social

proposing one thing for now, I'd like to gather info relative to the struggles of starting a team (I'll stick to drosophila as other organisms have their own difficulties). If you're interested in sharing your own experience, send me an email and I'll send you the doc I'm using to compile those

With the first IRL JEDI meeting in 8 years coming back in a month, an important question comes What would you like the return of the JEDIs to bring to the drosophila research community? (and also, don't forget to vote for your @fly-eds.bsky.social representatives)

Calling all fly researchers! Submit your abstracts before 28 May! Looking forward to seeing all the great #drosophila research going on at #EDRC2025 in Spain @edrc2025.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social