Very upsetting to hear the sad news of Greg Hannon’s passing. I always enjoyed our far too few conversations we had over the years. He had an interesting and insightful perspective on any science being discussed. He will be missed. www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

In Memoriam: Professor Greg Hannon (1964–2026) - Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Greg was already a world-renowned scientist when appointed Director, and for the community, he was a visionary leader, a cherished mentor, and a singular force of nature whose influence shaped the research landscape.

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Myriam Maumy-Bertrand, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, aborde l’évolution de l’analyse des données de santé à l’heure de l’IA. L’interview réalisée par Erwan Le Merrer. blogbinaire.larecherche.fr/2025/12/12/d... @blogbinaire Société informatique de France

De l’impact de l’IA sur l’analyse des données de santé - Blog binaire

La Société Informatique de France (SIF) partage sur binaire un cycle d’interviews sur l’impact de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) sur les métiers. Ici  Myriam Maumy-Bertrand, Enseignante-Chercheuse a...

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🆕 New paper out with Jean-Luc Imler and Rune Hartmann in EMBO journal. We dissect mechanisms of antiviral immunity and how STING is activated by FADD and DREDD during viral infection in Drosophila melanogaster. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

FADD is recruited to activated STING oligomers to initiate caspase-mediated NF-κB activation in Drosophila melanogaster - The EMBO Journal

STING is an evolutionarily conserved key regulator of innate immunity. In the model organism Drosophila melanogaster, STING activates the NF-κB-like transcription factor Relish, initially characterize...

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Sortir de la vision androcentrée du travail, construite sur des perceptions et des intérêts propres aux hommes, telle est l’utopie que tente de rendre réelle le colloque "Utopies féministes au travail. Réorganiser, redéfinir, abolir", du 6 au 7 novembre avec Ada Reichhart, professeure de sociologie.

Un colloque pour repenser le travail du point de vue des théories féministes

Sortir de la vision androcentrée du travail, construite sur des perceptions et des intérêts propres aux hommes, telle est l’utopie que tente de rendre réelle le colloque « Utopies féministes au travai...

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Join us for this exciting meeting! @embo.org Workshop "Pathogen Immunity and Signalling", 8-12 June, 2026, Leiden, The Netherlands meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...

Managed to submit the ANR PRC on time… fingers crossed! ⬇️

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Three fantastic keynote lectures to kick off #EDRC2025 Lucia Prieto-Godiño @crick.ac.uk the @embo.org sponsored lecture, Romain Levayer @pasteur.fr and Marta Llimargas @ibmb-csic.bsky.social

Contrats to Dominique Ferrandon’s team @adrienfranchet.bsky.social

eLife@elife.bsky.social · last yr.

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

REFEREE 1: “I conclude with a simple, direct statement - this is the best paper I have read all year!” #TransparentPeerReview Co-evolving infectivity and expression patterns drive the diversification of endogenous retroviruses @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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.

Marc Dionne@marcsdionne.bsky.social · last yr.

My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Why use #CRISPR in #Drosophila when RNAi works so well? Because for some genes well is not good enough. Check out new preprint from the lab demonstrating a role for Vps15 in Wingless trafficking. Something that was missed in several RNAi screens. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking forward to the Physics within the Cell workshop on 16th June. Join if you want to discuss molecular motors and intracellular transport with me. More info here: iop.eventsair.com/pwtc2025/

1/10 Today in @science.org in collaboration with the Liu group we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells. drive.google.com/file/d/1I-Ub...

📣 #Drosophila news! 🪰 The AMP mutant lines from Hanson et al. (bit.ly/eLifeHanson) & the many isogenic immunity strains generated by @lmvteixeira.bsky.social & @brunolemaitre.bsky.social groups are now in @vdrc-flies.bsky.social! Find the 40 DrosDel Immunity Panel strains in VDRC library DD-Im ⬇️

📣 Junior PI Opportunity Join CNRS Strasbourg to lead cutting-edge research on host-pathogen interactions in insects 🪰 450k€ package | Drosophila, RNA, immunity IBMC + Labex NetRNA network 📅 Apply by June 30, 2025 🔗 ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi... #RNA #Insects #Drosophila #NetRNA #Immunity #JobAlert

Checkout our last paper about Dicer-2 interactome in vivo dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #RNAi #Dicer #Drosophila

In vivo Dicer-2 interactome during viral infection reveals novel pro and antiviral factors in Drosophila melanogaster

Invertebrates rely mainly on RNA interference (RNAi) as a key defense mechanism against viral infections. The central protein of this process is an enzyme called Dicer-2, which senses and processes vi...

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An intercellular metabolic relay for brain sparingin Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.645514v1

Hey fellow Drosophila researchers - if you haven't heard, the UMGC is offering ultra low-cost genome sequencing! See here to learn more: z.umn.edu/UMGC-MOSS #Dros25

Application for Master in Integrative Biological Sciences (iBioS) - Apply on MonMaster before March 24th. Details on the flyer. imcbio.unistra.fr/imcbio-train...

We are looking for a #postdoc to discover cell-autonomous innate immune antiviral factors in mammals, based on newly-identified defense of prokaryotes! #EvoCure #comparativeImmunology #virology Please share @inserm.fr @ciri-lyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social ciri.ens-lyon.fr/teams/lp2l/j...

We are pleased to announce registration for RNA 2025 - the 30th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society - is now open! www2.rnasociety.org This year’s meeting will be held at the beautiful Town and Country Resort & Convention Center in sunny San Diego, California, USA from May 27th - June 1st, 2025.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @marvintanenbaum.bsky.social Fantastic study by the Tanenbaum lab

Long-term imaging of individual ribosomes reveals ribosome cooperativity in mRNA translation

Ribosomes cooperate through transient collisions to ensure efficient translation.

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ECR fellowship for 2 years abroad. Excellent funding & offers the chance to build your own research direction. 📣 I have a non-model #Drosophila system ripe for collaboration - it's got a balancer chromosome, so GAL4/UAS becomes feasible. #EvolBio questions with functional genetics! Happy to chat.

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society

This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 2y ago

Might be a bit on the nose... but if you're looking to move your research abroad, there are funding schemes specifically for this. For instance, this one offers £300k startup funds to move to UK & closes in March. Another round closes in November. royalsociety.org/grants/royal... 1/3

Our paper out @CellCellPress: Structure guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity Congrats Erez Yirmiya, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai, our collaborators at the Kranzusch lab, and coauthors A 🧵 1/10 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Structure-guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity

Large-scale, structure-guided computational pipeline sifts through millions of phage proteins to identify those that bind and antagonize host immune proteins. Detected proteins are shown to inhibit no...

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📢Job alert We have two postdoctoral positions available, starting in Spring 2025. These positions are part of research funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, focused on exploring evolutionary immunology (Evo-Immuno). #Postdoc #InnateImmunity Do not hesitate to contact us. ibmc.cnrs.fr/en/laboratoi...

Time to share our organelle proteome paper out in @cellcellpress.bsky.social: doi.org/nzwz We created a spatial map of human cells using organelle immunoprecipitation at scale. Locate your fav protein among the 7,600 we mapped across 19 subcellular compartments: organelles.sf.czbiohub.org/ 1/3 🧪

📢Job alert Are you interested in Drosophila genetics, insects, innate immunity, evolution? We are offering an exciting Group Leader position within the NetRNA consortium (labex-netrna.cnrs.fr/presentation...) See below for more information and do not hesitate to contact us.

Calling all Junior(-ish) Drosophila Investigators 📣📣📣 Join us in June for the JEDIs Resurection : flies-jedi.github.io/projects/202... ✅presentations from participants, ✅panel on publishing (with fantastic guests) ✅plenty of time for socializing Register asap to help us with the first headcount

Drosophila and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum in the spotlight (again), what a wonderful model (disclaimer I am biased ;-) ). Congrats Will and team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A conserved bacterial genetic basis for commensal-host specificity

Animals selectively acquire specific symbiotic gut bacteria from their environments that aid host fitness. To colonize, a symbiont must locate its niche and sustain growth within the gut. Adhesins are...

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ICYMI: we wrote a book. It's a free PDF, but you can also get a physical copy just in time for the holidays. Probably. I dunno. We don't actually get money from it. This was a labour of love by Hannah & Bruno. Also I helped. Stocking stuffer idea: USB loaded with The #Drosophila Immunity Handbook 🪰

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 2y ago

The #Drosophila Immunity Handbook 🧵 This project started as a review with the aim, in some sense, to update Lemaitre and Hoffmann (2007; Ann Rev Imm). Then it kinda... got out of hand. But the reason that happened is because Hannah is amazing. Find the free PDF here btw: bit.ly/DrosImmBook 1/n