🐛 With 2 weeks to go there is still time to secure one of the last few places for our Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-... Join us at the LSI in Exeter, UK for: 🎤 8th September: Research Day, including plenary lecture 🥼 9th September: Hands-on Laboratory Sessions

Time for some evening 🐛 genotyping! Why are some lab tasks more satisfying when done after 5pm?

📢 The preliminary research day programme for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 is now available! 👉 Registration remains open until the 1st of September and we continue to welcome poster submissions until the 31st of August. 🧑‍💻Visit www.gmrcuk.org/gmw-2026.html for more info

🐛Registration for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2026 is now open!⭐ 📆When? 8th-9th September 2026 📍Where? Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK 🎤Featuring a plenary lecture from Professor Kevin Kavanagh, Maynooth University, Ireland Sign up here: store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-...

🔬 We have an open post-doc position on nutritional immunology, funded by @ncn.gov.pl! 🙌 We study how fatty acids shape insect immune responses to fungal infections, using Galleria mellonella larvae as a model. 📅 Apply by 31.05.2026 to akaczmarek@miiz.waw.pl (subject: OpusLap) 👉 tinyurl.com/4babnhfp

Like #hemocytes? I'm advertising a 3 year, BBSRC #postdoc position, in #Edinburgh, using #Drosophila & human cells to understand sex differences in the regulation of #macrophage function, an exciting collaboration with the Bénézech and Wood labs. Please share! 🪰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU604/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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🐛 Happy New Year from GMRC 🐛 We’re pleased to be able to release our Galleria mellonella rearing manual (externally reviewed), now available on our website: www.gmrcuk.org/resources Interested in adopting this fantastic partial-replacement model organism? Get in touch! ✉️ gmrc@exeter.ac.uk #3Rs

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At GMRC, we are committed to enabling others to adopt this important partial-replacement model organism within their own institutions. We are therefore pleased to share our  Galleria mellonella...

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⭐The Full Schedule for the Galleria Mellonella Workshop 2025 is Live!🐛 🗓️ Date: 15th September 📍 Location: Edge Hill University 🔗 Register (free!) by the 29th August: shorturl.at/q6tXr 💬 Open to all researchers working with or curious about Galleria mellonella. #GMW2025 #GalleriaMellonella #3Rs

🐛 Research-grade Galleria mellonella — hand-picked for researchers, BY researchers! Planning experiments for Sept/Oct? Get in touch now! ✅ In-house reared, no antimicrobial additives ✅ Hand-selected for quality ✅ +10% extra to cover in-transit loss ✅ Flexible shipping options 📩 gmrc@exeter.ac.uk

🧬 Does anyone know if the new amplifier sequences for HCR™ Gold RNA-FISH are available anywhere? Trying to track them down to plug into the code I have to generate probes in place of the old B1/B2... sequences. #HCR #MolecularBiology #RNAFISH #FISH

🎤 Pleased to confirm our second speaker for GMW2025: @cjcoates.bsky.social, who will join us from University of Galway, Ireland with a talk titled: ⭐ Interrogating Galleria mellonella larvae as an aspirant toxicology model 🐛 Sign up here: www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...

GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025

We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...

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We are pleased to announce that the Galleria Mellonella Workshop will be running again this year. The event will take place on Monday the 15th of September at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, UK and will be hosted by @rachelhclare.bsky.social 🐛 Please join us! 🐛 www.gmrcuk.org/galleria-mel...

GALLERIA MELLONELLA WORKSHOP 2025

We are very pleased to announce  that the annual Galleria Mellonella Workshop is back for 2025!  This year, the workshop will run for the first time in the north of England - at Edge Hill...

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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...

🧪🍻 From pests to pioneers — and pint glasses! I had a great time talking about Galleria mellonella at Pint of Science, Exeter last night. Turns out, The Very Hungry Caterpillar saw it coming… 🐛✨ #PintOfScience #Pint25 #NC3Rs #GalleriaMellonella #ScienceInThePub

En route with some VIPs to #PintOfScience

I’ll be talking about how Galleria mellonella can be a powerful alternative to mice in infection and immunity research at Pint of Science in Exeter at 7.30pm on the 20th of May. 🐛”From pest to pioneering better science”🐛 Tickets: pintofscience.co.uk/event/talkin... #PintOfScience #Exeter #3Rs

Talking biology: From A(nimal research) to Z(oology)

A biomedical research lab might feel a world way away from nature, but research scientists learn a lot from the natural world. Meet scientists who are appl…

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Excited to see this UAS based enhancer trap working in Galleria embryos!

Trying out a new way of embryo mounting for transgenic injections today! 🐛🔬

When you go in hard on your first day using alphafold 😂

New pre print! We establish an ex vivo blood vessel model to investigate the effect of infection on vascular physiology in real time. We show Klebsiella inhibits vasodilation in a T6SS-dependent manner by targeting eNOs. Superb work by @safimicro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Klebsiella pneumoniae disrupts vasodilation by targeting eNOS post translational modifications via the type VI secretion system and the capsule polysaccharide

Vasodilation is a crucial protective response to inflammation and infection. Endothelial cells control vasodilation through the bioavailability of eNOS-produced nitric oxide (NO), and the generation o...

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On my way back from a fantastic visit to Belfast to set up a Galleria colony at QUB!

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

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