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EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Nicolas Buchon @nicobuchon.bsky.social · 19d

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...

Infectious bacteria, but not the microbiota, induce a NOX-ATM-cytokine pathway that controls epithelial turnover

Nagy et al. identify a NOX-ATM-cytokine signaling axis in the Drosophila gut that is activated by infection independently of DNA damage. This pathway promotes enterocyte loss, cytokine production, and...

www.cell.com

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 23d

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...

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · 23d

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_...

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 23d

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! 👇

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Felix Schmidtner @felixschmidtner.bsky.social · 28d

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.

Bild einer Zeitung. Ein Bild mit einer fetten Fliege mit roten Augen. Überschrift: Notruf der Fliege. Lead: Erkenntnisse aus der Drosophilaforschung werden in einer Datenbank gesammelt. Deren Finanzierung steht vor dem Aus. Wegen Trump.

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Amélie Joly @ameliejoly.bsky.social · 27d

📢 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...

The sex and reproductive plasticity of the intestine

www.crick.ac.uk

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 29d

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

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Schulenburg Lab Kiel @schulenburglab.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

Applying evolutionary theory to understand host–microbiome evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This Perspective discusses how well-established theoretical models of evolution can be adapted to study and generate testable predictions about the evolutionary dynamics of host–microbiota association...

www.nature.com

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · Aug 6

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!

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Michael Gerth @mgerth.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

tinyurl.com

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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · Jul 22

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...

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brunolemaitre.bsky.social @brunolemaitre.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

Majority of fruit fly immunity studies can be replicated, huge analysis finds

Verification of 50 years of data bolsters immunology research, but identifies “suspicious” papers that don’t hold up

www.science.org

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Filipe De Vadder @filipedevadder.bsky.social · Jul 12

📢 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...

Liver FGF21 mediates sex-specific adaptation to juvenile protein malnutrition

Dietary protein sufficiency during childhood is essential for healthy growth and tissue development. Chronic protein deficiency leads to stunting, height-for-age more than two standard deviations belo...

www.biorxiv.org

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

ERC to introduce seven-year €7 million ‘super grants’ in 2026

The European Research Council (ERC) is set to launch its first seven-year €7 million super grant call in May next year.The grants, called ERC+, will be open to researchers at all career stages and in ...

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Igor Iatsenko @iatsenkolab.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thanks! Will check.

Igor Iatsenko @iatsenkolab.bsky.social · Jul 4

Any recommendations for a #Drosophila transgenesis facility in Europe?

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Jul 3

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

During their trip to Ukraine, Ferenc Krausz and Serge Haroche visited universities, research institutions and destroyed buildings - and met people who, despite the war, are shaping everyday life and believe in the future.

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

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Igor Iatsenko @iatsenkolab.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

Aranzazu Arias-Rojas @aranzazuarias.bsky.social · Jun 26

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to announce the release of my PhD pet project!
The journey has been long, and I'm grateful to all who contributed to this meaningful work.

@markorubinicc.bsky.social @iatsenkolab.bsky.social

Infection-Induced Elevation of Gut Glycosaminoglycans Fosters Microbiota Expansion in Drosophila melanogaster

While host genetics influence the composition of intestinal microbial communities, host genetic factors controlling the abundance of intestinal commensals remain to be determined. Here, we performed a...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · Jun 10

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...

DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM

wwwfbm.unil.ch

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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · Jun 10

📢 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...

Temperate Bacteriophage Populations in the Human Gut: Culturomics and Experimental Insights
Jeremy J. Barr

june 12
4 PM
SEMINAR ROOM 1+2
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY, BERLIN

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Igor Iatsenko @iatsenkolab.bsky.social · May 30

Yes, this is an important point that we did not cover very deeply. However, the fact that we still see the differences in germ- free flies suggests that microbiota alone can't explain the phenotype. It is very curios that male microbiome is more responsive to perturbations.

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Igor Iatsenko @iatsenkolab.bsky.social · May 28

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

Sex Differences in Drosophila Intestinal Metabolism Contribute to Sexually Dimorphic Infection Outcome and Alter Gut Pathogen Virulence

Sexual dimorphism in infection outcomes is a pervasive phenomenon, the underlying mechanisms of which remain incompletely understood. Here, utilizing Pseudomonas entomophila intestinal infection in Dr...

www.biorxiv.org

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Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social · May 19

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...

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