BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

Y Hu, A Comjean, J Rodiger, W Chen, A Kim, M Qadiri, C Gao, J Zirin, S Mohr, N Perrimon, FlyRNAi.org 2025 update—expanded resources for new technologies and species, Nucleic Acids Research, 2024;, gkae917, doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Check out our J Cell Science At a Glance review and poster on "Imaging interorganelle contacts" - part of the special issue on Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics! Maria Clara Zanellati Sherry Hsu journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-lo…

Very grateful for my renewal as tier2 Canada Research Chair in Human Immunology and Host Pathogen Interactions . Thank you to the reviewers for their appreciation and trust! We are motivated to do better to understand fondamentale mechanisms of neuroinflammation

We are grateful to the many scientists and medical professionals in our community who have dedicated their careers to helping #GFPDWarriors. Without these amazing individuals, we would not have such grand HOPE for the future.

Italian food and game night! Merry Christmas and happy holidays from our lab to yours

Phage-displayed synthetic library and screening platform for nanobody discovery Baolong Xia, Ah-Ram Kim, Feimei Liu, Myeonghoon Han, Emily Stoneburner, Stephanie Makdissi, Francesca Di Cara, Stephanie E. Mohr, Aaron M. Ring, Norbert Perrimon doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

We are recruiting one postdoc and one PhD student to join our lab on #Drosophila #innate immunity in Lausanne (Switzerland). epfl.ch/labs/lemaitrel…

Accepted!!!!! Soon the link of this exciting story looking at lipids in control of ISC proliferation… and more. Thanks to Postdocs Drs Smitha George and Rihab Loudhaief and to research assistant Stephanie Makdissi for carrying this forward

In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research go.nature.com/4gclXG0

Join us on 27 February for a special webinar to celebrate Rare Disease Day! Charlene Son Rigby, Daria Julkowska, and Heidi Rehm will discuss efforts to advance rare disease knowledge and enhance global strategies for patient engagement. Register: bit.ly/40RLJuU

This February 28th, we encourage you to advocate for peroxisomal disorders. Rare Disease Day is an awareness day to educate policymakers and the public about rare diseases and the 30 million people impacted by them. Learn more thegfpd.org/advocate/ youtu.be/RRZap8WthC0?si…

"Dumbest Trade War in History" is how the The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal views the Trump Tariff. Cartoonist Michael Michael de Adder agrees-showing us an American President taking dead aim on his own left foot.

Alterations in ether phospholipids metabolism activate the conserved U... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… And this is the link. It is finally online and it shows the important of organelles cooperation to control lipid signaling in tissue homeostasis in the intestinal tract

Increasing evidence for the central role of peroxisomes in antiviral immunity. A new study provides in vivo evidence to support a role for peroxisomes in SARS-COV-2 infection. Kudos to the authors on this important study. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Hepatic gluconeogenesis and PDK3 upregulation drive cancer cachexia in flies and mice. Liu, Dantas, Ferrer, Miao, Qadiri, Liu, Comjean , Davidson, Perrier, Ahmed, Hu, Goncalves, Janowitz, Perrimon. Nat Metab. 2025 doi: 10.1038/s42255-025-01265-2. PMID: 40275022

🔔 Join us at 3:00 PM EST for an exciting talk by dicaraLab from Dalhousie University on Peroxisome-dependent immunometabolism and #inflammation 🧬 Don't miss out! 🚀 📝 Poster & registration: ow.ly/9WWZ50VpTnL 💻 Zoom Link: ow.ly/pVm750VpTos #EarlyCareerResearch

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What time is your #immune system strongest? ⏰🧬 dicaraLab explores how Drosophila is helping unravel the links between circadian clocks and innate immunity—revealing how time-of-day can shape immune responses ow.ly/6seM50VO6uL #CircadianRhythms #Immunology #FruitFly