4-Me working with @rubengonzalez.bsky.social. Text caption "Got to supervise my own post-doc (Rubén)"

2-A screenshot of my phone gallery showing all the sheets of manually recorded data. Text caption "This is a Snapshot of what my life has been"

3-The fly incubator with fly drawings all around, all customized. Text caption "Mum let me decorate my room"

I will think about this next time! Sorry I missed it here. Here is the description of the pics:

1- A cartoon of a sick Drosophila melanogaster, wearing a mask, and surrounded by four viruses of different colours (the viruses of the study)

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Thanks to all members of the @salehlabparis.bsky.social for support and teamwork; couldn't have done it without you 🫶

Thanks to @pasteur.fr for hosting me during my PhD journey😄👨‍🔬

The corrected proofs are out! Read the full article at @plosbiology.org : plos.io/4olpuXmm

Having shared that...

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We found that:

*Persistence reduces fly survival

*Hosts trade reproduction for immunity

*Persistently infected flies have impaired movement and altered sleep, but keep circadian rhythm

*Different viruses trigger distinct transcriptional responses

*And more!

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But first, I wanna share some sneak peeks of how this work has come to be, how I made the lab home, and the bonding that comes with working closely:

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In our latest work, we established persistent viral infections to examine their impact on this model organism.
We followed survival and other life history traits, and we also performed a transcriptomic analysis over time… (The data is available for you to play with it! 💻🧬🪰)