A summary and an interview on our extensive reproducibility project in Drosophila immunity. actu.epfl.ch/news/scienti...

An open webinar on our reproducibility project 'WHAT 400 DROSOPHILA PAPERS Teach Us about Doing Better Science' on December 9th 2PM EEST time (1PM Swiss time). Registration below

Bizarre that our 2020 #Drosophila #AMP review already feels out of date. Thanks to #AnnualReviews to cover the many updates in the field and present a much more complete picture of the diversity, mechanisms, topics, of fly immunity re: host defence peptides. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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...

As someone who ended up using non-model systems after doing his PhD with Drosophila, you don't realise just how amazing FlyBase or WormBase are until you try to genetics without them.

I read the preprint. It's very beautiful work from Hadi Boukhatmi's group. They test how if at all #Drosophila can repair their #muscles. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Currently reading Brave Genomes by Silvia Bulgherisi — a wonderful book on recent advances in genomics, environmental change, and the influence of microbes. Highly recommend! shop.elsevier.com/books/brave-... www.amazon.de/Brave-Genome...

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...

the strain on academic publishing could be substantially alleviated if funding agencies stipulated... work they support must be published in non-profit journals.

Specifically on the #metascience side, congrats to @josephlemaitre.bsky.social and @brunolemaitre.bsky.social on this consequential piece. 🎉 By dissecting factors associated with #reproducibility within a single field, there are broad lessons for #ScientificPublishing and broader #science.

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n

Congratulations to @fly-eds.bsky.social board member Gábor Juhász @juhg.hu and to Oren Schuldiner @schuldinerorenlab.bsky.social for their election to EMBO membership! #Drosophila

#FlyCROSS is a mentor-mentee matching program for the fly community. They're looking for mentors from all career paths (academia, industry, policy etc.) who have experience with #Drosophila research and are eager to support the next generation of fly scientists. Apply to become a mentor by 14 July:

Michael Ashburner FRS was an influential figure in the fields of Drosophila genomics and early sequencing database initiatives such as @ebi.embl.org. Read about their contributions across genetics and bioinformatics in the new biographical memoir: buff.ly/f01zNat @geneticscam.bsky.social‬

Hidden virus harboured by fruit flies may influence experimental accuracy. buff.ly/TtHCYLQ

Oh man, you guys. This is so important. Drosophila have led to so much in terms of what we understand about how genes work.

Big #Drosophila news!🪰 The AMP mutant lines from Hanson et al. (elifesciences.org/articles/443...) & the many isogenic immunity strains generated by @lmvteixeira.bsky.social & @brunolemaitre.bsky.social's group are now in @vdrc-flies.bsky.social! Find the 40 DrosDel Immunity Panel strains at ⬇️

We are happy to annouce that we have deposited at @VDRC (ViennaDrosophila Resource Center) a list of isogenized @Drosophila immunity mutants affecting all major immune modules and effectors. We hope these strains will be useful to the community. epfl.ch/labs/lemaitr...

Sad news. Benny Shilo, a pioneer in dev bio & Drosophila genetics, has died. I'll remember the infectious enthusiasm and burning curiosity he brought to every conversation I had with him.

Some hashtags: #immunity #Dros25 #Drosophila #antimicrobialpeptides #NFkB #inflammation #ImmunoSky #Infection #pathogen And if you want to learn more about these modules and how you could incorporate them in your research, check our our free book: "The Drosophila Immunity Handbook" bit.ly/3z429p5

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 🧵

Does marrying a fellow scientist boost your career? In academia, homogamous couples—where both partners are scientists—are common, especially among top achievers. But who benefits more? Let’s dive into our latest research!

Recently completed your #PhD using #Drosophila in a European lab? Apply for the European Drosophila Society best thesis prize! 🏆🪰 Deadline: 28 Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the EDRC in Alicante @edrc2025.bsky.social! Info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

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/...

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...

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...

I am so sad to lose Dr. Ruth Steward. She was a groundbreaking scientist and a fierce role model for #WomenInScience. This photo is our dinner group with seminar speaker @rburdine1.bsky.social and @lacefieldlab.bsky.social @schindlerlab.bsky.social (1/27/2020). May her memory be an inspiration.

I am happy to host Pierre Cosson (University of Geneva) for an hybrid seminar entitled “How phagocytic cells kill bacteria” on Monday December 9 at 3PM (UTC+1) in the room SV1717a @EPFL @phagocytosis epfl.zoom.us/j/66422058690