Only a few hours left before our meeting starts! Are you travelling to #EDRC2025 now? Let us know by using the oficial #EDRC2025 hashtag!

Our new study is out in Cell Reports! We show that the DNA repair pathway ATM-γH2Av is repurposed in the gut during infection, even without DNA breaks. Pathogens, not microbiota, trigger it via NOX to clear damaged cells and drive stem cell regeneration. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de. Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions. www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding. More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

Wegen den Einschnitten der US-Regierung fürchten sich Wissenschaftler, dass die Flybase, eine zentrale wissenschaftliche Datenbank für die Forschung an der Fruchtfliege Drosophila melanogaster, verloren gehen könnte. Mein Text dazu in der heutigen F.A.Z.

📢 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...

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

I am happy to announce publication of our new perspectives paper on applying evolutionary theory to host-microbiome evolution - new tricks for old dogs! @bweek.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de @transevo.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

attention 🪰folks. many of you received a survey from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social about potential future sites of the US Fly meeting. We are excited for #Dros26 Chicago, but future sites are in question, for many logistical reasons. GSA is hard at work planning, but we need to hear from you. please RT!

Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids). Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs

Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection! Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link: app.asm.org/account/logi...

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...

📢 New preprint: “Liver FGF21 mediates sex-specific adaptation to juvenile protein malnutrition” Led by @ameliejoly.bsky.social, co-supervised with @francoisleulier.bsky.social. We’re proud to share this story. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

See? There's money! What would be great, instead, is to increase the budget for the existing schemes, though 🧪

Any recommendations for a #Drosophila transgenesis facility in Europe?

In early March, the Nobel Laureates Ferenc Krausz and Serge Haroche returned from their visit to #Ukraine with strong and lasting impressions. With their documentary, the two researchers draw attention to the dramatic circumstances 📹 peace4europa.org

Infection-Induced Elevation of Gut Glycosaminoglycans Fosters Microbiota Expansion in Drosophila melanogaster https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.24.661374v1

Proud of this work led by a former PhD student @aranzazuarias.bsky.social. Here, we investigated how the host controls the abundance of gut commensals and how some of them can benefit from infection. #infection #symbiosky #proudPI #immunity #AcademicSky #insect #symbiosis #Drosophila

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

📢 Voices in Infection Biology Join us next this Thursday for a talk with @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social from @monashuniversity.bsky.social, kindly hosted by @iatsenkolab.bsky.social. 🗓️ Thursday, June 12 🕓 4 pm 📍 on-site seminar (Berlin) Info and abstract: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/42144...

Happy to share our new preprint! We explored the mechanisms underlying differences between male and female #Drosophila in susceptibility to intestinal #infection. #symbiosky #immunity #AcademicSky #insect #symbiosis

Join us in Tubingen as a Junior Research Group Leader if you do research on #ESKAPE pathogens and infections and are interested in the highly cooperative environment of @dzif.bsky.social‬ and @cmfi.bsky.social ! Please send your application or forward to colleagues! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

While I applaud Europe taking a step to fund bringing scientific excellence to Europe, the ERC’s current success rates at 10% for Europe based scientists is statistically at lottery levels. The total ERC budget should double across the board aiming at doubling funding rates.

Hi #Drosophila folk: I'm advertising a 2-year #Postdoc, funded by a BBSRC grant on the genetic and immune determinants and evolutionary constraints underlying extreme pathogen transmission phenotypes. Deadline 29 April, details in the link below, or feel free to email: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...

Happy to share our latest minireview on Drosophila symbionts in infection: when a friend becomes an enemy | Infection and Immunity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #insect #endosymbiont #symbiosis

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 🧵

You have a strong background in molecular microbiology and look for a PhD position? Join us in #Tubingen in an international, enthusiastic team team, in an excellent research environment of the EU-funded #AUREUS program euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/328844 @cmfi.bsky.social

Matching phages to cognate host bacteria has remained merely empirical. We describe a new tool predicting the host range of #S.aureus-specific phages, based on phage receptor binding protein sequences, which will become helpful for #phage-therapy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Enjoyed a lot reading this masterpiece from Will Ludington's lab: A conserved bacterial genetic basis for commensal-host specificity | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Host-Microbe Symbioses- Our favorite summer school is back! Help us spread the word!

Join our lively interactive community of evolutionary biologists in Northern Germany! 7 PhD positions on TransEvo topics, incl 1 PhD position in the Schulenburg lab. @transevo.bsky.social

Workshop on ecological & evolutionary immunology/insect immunity. 15-19th Sept 2025 - Werbellinsee, Germany, organised by Sophie Armitage and Jens Rolff. Abstract deadline start of March www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/biologie/...

Congratulations to 🌟Alexandra Hrdina🌟 and 🌟Harshita Mishra🌟 from @iatsenkolab.bsky.social & Olivia Majer’s lab @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de for receiving the Anna Wessels Williams Award. Congratulations 🍾🍾🍾

Congrats Alexandra Hrdina and Harshita Mishra on a well-deserved award! Well done! Another proud PI moment.

We are recruiting one postdoc and one PhD student to join our lab on #Drosophila #innate immunity in Lausanne (Switzerland). More info: www.epfl.ch/labs/lemaitr...

Congratulations Dr. Arias-Rojas @aranzazu.bsky.social! The first PhD student of the lab successfully defended the thesis today. Proud PI moment and an important milestone for the whole lab. It was very rewarding to be part of your PhD journey!

The circadian clock gene period regulates the composition and daily bacterial load of the gut microbiome in Drosophila melanogaster #ScientificReports from @ottavia-romoli.bsky.social and Federica Sandrelli www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Plenty of exciting research in the new issue of Insect Mol Biol @roysocent.bsky.social: symbiont evolution, microRNA, bee viruses, tRNA, baculovirus, gene affecting kissing bug behaviour, Anopheles transgenesis, minibrain and bees, microbiota, … resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652583...

Post Doc position on discovering of circadian clock components within the #MicroClock #ERCSyG project at #LeidenUniversity with Ákos T. Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social 👉 deadline on 17 January 2025

Berlin senat is about to decide upon cutting the next year's budget for universities and scientific institutes in Berlin. Currently they are aiming at a cut of about 8%. Our student numbers are rising and the graduates are dearly needed in education and science. #safebraincity

The European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social has just launched a #prize to the best #PhD thesis using #Drosophila. 🏆🪰 Deadline is Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the #EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social ! More info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

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/...

I'm advertising several positions at all levels ( #PhD, #Postdoc, #RA). If you're enthusiastic, collaborative, and interested in the #ecological and #evolutionary dynamics of #infection, please get in touch - link below. pedrovale.bio.ed.ac.uk/open-positions ([email protected])

📢 Voices in Infection Biology Next up in our seminar series is Ákos T. Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social, kindly hosted by @iatsenkolab.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday, November 27 🕓 4 pm CET (Berlin time) 📍 on-site and online Registration and abstract: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/events/39935...

1 more week to apply! A PhD and a postdoc project on the genomic basis of host-microbiome coevolution in the Schulenburg lab

I am hiring! This is a unique opportunity for students from 🇨🇳 China to come to 🇬🇧 UK for their PhD via a China Scholarship Council award. The application deadline is Dec 2nd 2024. 通过中国国家留学基金委奖学金获得英国博士学位的机会！ mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu... #Drosophila #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky

I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky More info: mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...

@hansonmark.bsky.social Hi Mark! Just moved here and still learning how to navigate. May I join the Insect genetics & molecular biology pack?