Tessera
Folgen

@brunolemaitre.bsky.social

18 Posts250 Follower30 Folgt
Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Over the moon! It's an incredible honour to be named a Lister Prize fellow. And excited to begin this project! We will be building genetic tools (esp. GAL4/UAS) in #Drosophila testacea, a non-model mushroom-feeding fly with a *natural balancer chromosome* to study immune evolution 🧬🪰🍄 1/2

The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our congratulations to 👉️ @chrisgreene.bsky.social at RSCI University of Medicine and Health Sciences 👉️ @hansonmark.bsky.social at @exeter.ac.uk 👉️ @anjalihinch.bsky.social at @dunnschool.bsky.social 👉️ @lautenschlagerlab.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk lister-institute.org.uk/news/our-lis...

Head and shoulders photo of Lister Prize 2026 winner Anjali Hinch. She is wearing a long-sleeved, dark, V-necked top and a silver pendant necklace. She is wearing dark-rimmed glasses and is looking directly at the camera with her arms loosely crossed. She is in front of an out-of-focus blue background.
@brunolemaitre.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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

Bild
Drosophila Spain@drosospain.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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...

Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds - Nature Cell Biology

As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.

nature.com

Anthony Berndt@anthonyberndt.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

FlyBase@flybase.bsky.social · last yr.

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

flymuscles@flymuscles.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Immune–tracheal intercellular signalling coordinates the muscle injury response in Drosophila

Effective tissue adaptation to damage requires precise coordination among diverse cell types. In skeletal muscle, injury-responsive cells play a pivotal role in repair, yet the molecular and cellular ...

biorxiv.org

@brunolemaitre.bsky.social · last yr.

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

science.org

James Albert@gymnotus.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · last yr.

Hanson believes the problem is not open access & APCs per se, but for-profit publishers that seek to publish as many papers as possible... the strain on academic publishing could be substantially alleviated if funding agencies stipulated... work they support must be published in non-profit journals.

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

A retrospective analysis of 400 publications reveals patterns of irreproducibility across an entire life sciences research field

The ReproSci project retrospectively analyzed the reproducibility of 1006 claims from 400 papers published between 1959 and 2011 in the field of Drosophila immunity. This project attempts to provide a...

biorxiv.org

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · last yr.

Paper 2 is a greater focus on #metascience, investigating what factors are most correlated with work being reproducible. The big takeaways? Author institution (driven by a few key authors) is the most significant correlate of irreproducibility. #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky #NewPI 4.1/n

European Drosophila Society@fly-eds.bsky.social · last yr.

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

EMBO@embo.org · last yr.

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪 Learn more here: www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

the Node@the-node.bsky.social · last yr.

#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:

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Mentor-mentee matching program - the Node

Call for Mentors from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026), following a successful

thenode.biologists.com

Sarah Tuttle@niais.cryptoanarchy.network · last yr.

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

Lucas Waltzer @lucaswaltzer.bsky.social · last yr.

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request 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 donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

@brunolemaitre.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Bild
James Briscoe@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · last yr.

Our field has lost an amazing scientist, mentor, and old friend. Benny, along with Mike Hoffman, had a brilliant idea in the early 1980s. The first oncogenes were being cloned and they realized if we wanted to understand their roles in cancer, we needed to understand their normal function 1/n 🧪

Our colleague Prof. Benny (Ben Zion) Shilo passed away this morning @WeizmannScience . Benny worked at the forefront of world science in the study of molecular and developmental genetics. Among other things, he won the A.M.T. Prize in the field of genetics in 2013. He was also a great explainer of science, a kind teacher - and an artist photographer with a sharp eye and a sensitive soul. Benny, we will miss you very much. May his memory be blessed.
Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · last yr.

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 🧵

Layers of immunity: Deconstructing the Drosophila effector response

The host innate immune response relies on the cooperation of multiple defense modules. In insects and other arthropods, which have only innate immune mechanisms, four main immune-specific modules cont...

biorxiv.org

@brunolemaitre.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

Maureen Barr@barrlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Five women scientists at a restaurant (Soni Lacefield, Maureen Barr, Becky Burdine, Karen Schindler, Ruth Steward)
Annika Barber@annikabarber.bsky.social · 2y ago

Saddened by the passing of a #Drosophila great, my colleague and mentor Dr. Ruth Steward. Ruth made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the role of Dorsal in developmental patterning and identified connections between developmental pathways and cancer.