European Drosophila Board election call for nominations. Join the EDB to represent and support Drosophila research in Europe!!! Five representatives will be elected for different regions. Closing date April 7th. Go to europeandrosophilasociety.org/node/15

The New Microbiology: an international lecture course on the island of Spetses -in microLife by Pascale Cossart, Roberto Kolter, Bruno Lemaitre, Typas Lab academic.oup.com/microlife/adva…

Calling all European fly researchers! The 2023 European Drosophila Board elections are open! Closing date is May 19th. The candidate statements and voting link are on the EDS web site: europeandrosophilasociety.org/node/15 Make your vote count! Results announced EDRC2023

It is incredibly sad news to hear about the passing of Michael Ashburner. He was an incredible scientist, propelling both Drosophila genetics and genomics. A true leader that will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with his loved ones.

We are getting ready to launch the next iteration of the Toll conference, focused on all things innate immunity

Silverman lab is looking for a new Research Associate to help manage animal colony and to contribute to exciting innate immunity research. careers-umms.icims.com/jobs/44114/job…

Postdoctoral position available in my group « bacteriology of host-microbiota interactions » igfl.ens-lyon.fr/offres/offres-…

More and more scientific papers. Is the trend sustainable? 👇🏽 Maybe we should start asking ourselves: Why do we do researchers? We need new models for publishing, new criteria for evaluating, a new ethics of research.

A souvenir of our beloved colleague Uli Theopold contributed so much to the fields of insect and invertebrate immunology. We will miss him. karger.com/jin/article/16…

Early Bird Registration closes tomorrow. Please come join us in Rotterdam in April for an exciting conference and loads of fun! "Late Breaking Abstracts" for poster presentations still open and encouraged

Happy to share with you this article on the function @Drosophila Turandot stress peptides, that have lost a bit of their mystery! Innate Index immunity, antimicrobial peptides actu.epfl.ch/news/the-prote…

Last day to register.

Happy and honored to see our review "The conceptual foundations of innate immunity: Taking stock 30 years later" with Bruno Lemaitre, B Thomma & S Girardin out in Immunity. Free download here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1iuug3qNrUxt…

The conceptual foundations of innate immunity: Taking stock 30 years later dlvr.it/T5VGNs

Exciting news🤩- we have an opening for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Infection Biology & Immunology in our Institute EPFL Life Sciences EPFL Please spread the word & encourage outstanding postdocs, who are ready to start their own labs, to apply. THX 🤓 shorturl.at/bSvVe

Deux @MOOCs/cours online d'Sym Immunologie en français niveau Bachelor “ sont disponibles dans le cadre de l’enseignement à l’EPFL.epfl.ch/labs/lemaitrel…

I am pleased to inform you of the publication of the Drosophila immunity handbook. The pdf version of the book is free, or a physical version of the book is available for purchase at EPFL press.epflpress.org/produit/1514/9…