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Vincent Croset
@vincentcroset.bsky.social
Neurogeneticist - Associate Professor, Durham University, UK https://crosetlab.net/
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🚨 Postdoc opportunity to study memory or nutrition in #Drosophila 🪰

I am looking for a candidate to support for a 3 year Addison Wheeler Fellowship application lnkd.in/e2rvNf5x

Interested? Please send a CV & cover letter with brief research outline by 20th February to [email protected]
addison-wheeler-fellowship - Durham University
www.dur.ac.uk
🚨 Postdoc opportunity to study memory or nutrition in #Drosophila 🪰

I am looking for a candidate to support for a 3 year Addison Wheeler Fellowship application lnkd.in/e2rvNf5x

Interested? Please send a CV & cover letter with brief research outline by 20th February to [email protected]
addison-wheeler-fellowship - Durham University
www.dur.ac.uk
February 12, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
Fully-funded PhD with me and @srikipedia.bsky.social to study serotonin functions with cutting-edge experimental-computational approaches in a #NeuroAI framework.
Based at @durhampsych.bsky.social & @newcastleuni.bsky.social

🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
⏰ Deadline: 27 Feb 2026

More info👇
Control of top-down and bottom-up information by serotonin: a combined experimental and computational approach at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Control of top-down and bottom-up information by serotonin: a combined experimental and computational approach at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee..

A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting...

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February 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
Congrats to all the grant recipients!
Extra happy for Burak and Dennis from my lab.
And in this context: we’re hiring—open postdoc positions in the lab. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested.
January 7, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
Interested in the neurobiological basis of social behaviour and its dysfunction? Join the Ferreira and @wolfhuette.bsky.social groups at Northumbria University for a fully funded PhD opportunity studying group behaviour in flies. Further details are available here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Neuronal circuit-level action of genes underlying social behaviour dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster (Ref: RDF26/SE/GNS/FERREIRA) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
We have two advertised fully-funded PhD positions to work on memory or disease models in Drosophila! Please check the SWBio DTP website for more information and reach out if you are interested:

www.swbio.ac.uk/molecular-me...
Molecular Mechanisms & Pathways projects – SWBiosciences Doctoral Training Partnership
www.swbio.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology.
Apply here by Nov 30th!
(thanks for reposting)

career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Career Opportunities: Posdoctoral researcher in toxin susceptibility and evolution of resistance in insects (22517)
career5.successfactors.eu
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
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
October 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
Having personally sworn for years that insects don’t use GPCRs for odour detection, Suguru Takagi (@sugurutakagi.bsky.social) discovers that, in fact, they sometimes do …

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A GPCR signaling pathway in insect odor detection
Odor detection differs fundamentally in vertebrates, which use G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), and insects, which employ ion channels. Here, we report the first evidence for a GPCR defining tunin...
www.biorxiv.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
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.
October 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
You still have some time to apply!
don't miss this opportunity
You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc position (M/F) in Neuroscience, stress modulation of learning (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
👀
Highly recommended 👇🏻
You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc position (M/F) in Neuroscience, stress modulation of learning (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
September 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just a reminder...
September 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
New preprint, taking our lab into ecotoxicology, with a nifty combination of experimental evolution and CRISPR screening in cells, to help unravel the still-mysterious resistance of Drosophila sechellia to its favorite fruit: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Intersecting experimental evolution and CRISPR screens to identify novel toxin resistance loci
Understanding toxin resistance in insects is key to appreciate niche adaptations and for pest management, but remains challenging due to complex genetics. To investigate how Drosophila sechellia evolv...
www.biorxiv.org
August 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
I'm looking for teaching materials to help encourage cellular biology students to drop AI illustration and instead sketch during lectures—as well as while conceptualizing the future of food—without fear of lacking hard art skills. Suggestions, anyone?
June 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
Towards more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with #Drosophila. Challiner, Saurya., Patel, Raff, Fostier, Prokop, A. (2025) @genetics-gsa.bsky.social‬, in press -- doi.org/10.1093/gene... - Always happy to discuss and hear your ideas and views!
June 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!
We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
June 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
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]
June 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
🧠🍄Have you used classic or non-classic #psychedelics?
We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes.

Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
May 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
Interested in the neural circuits underlying memory formation?🧠🤔 See below a postdoc position advertised by the Boto lab at the University of Bristol 👇

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
May 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is all sadly very true. We urgently need to put together a strategic committee to generate a portfolio of recommendations about how to initiate a reflection about these issues.
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
‼️🔬 I am looking for a PhD student to investigate the molecular signatures of memory engrams in Drosophila.

🎓 Fully funded 4-year PhD position (BBSRC NEEDL)
📍 Durham University, UK

More details and instructions to apply: tinyurl.com/durhamPhD

#Drosophila #Neuroskyence #Neuroscience #Memory
February 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Reposted by Vincent Croset
Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)!

Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:
February 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Highly recommended! 👇🏻
Looking for an enthusiastic post-doc to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Drosophila neurogenetics, molecular and cellular mechanisms, imaging, optogenetics, neural circuits and behaviour will be used. At University of Birmingham campus, UK. Application deadline 19 March.
Pls RT.
February 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM