From c.vincent at qmul.ac.uk Tue Sep 15 09:19:08 2026 From: c.vincent at qmul.ac.uk (Crystal Vincent) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:19:08 +0000 Subject: [Lfm] Postdoctoral and Research Assistant Positions at QMUL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Good morning, We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (3-year) and a Research Assistant (3-year, part-time) to join our group at QMUL. We're a new and diverse group with interests in sex differences in immunity and infection, bacterial evolution and adaptation, and host-pathogen metabolic interactions. Both positions will be working on a project investigating the mechanisms responsible for fat loss during bacterial infection and how the sex of an individual contributes to this process. Please share with anyone who might be a good fit. Informal chats and queries are welcome; please get in touch with me at c.vincent at qmul.ac.uk. Details of the Postdoctoral position can be found here. Details of the Research Assistant position can be found here. Many thanks in advance for sharing across your networks. Best, Crystal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lucy.firth at syngenta.com Tue Sep 15 12:57:14 2026 From: lucy.firth at syngenta.com (Firth Lucy GBJH) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:57:14 +0000 Subject: [Lfm] LFM: Job Opportunity at Syngenta, Bracknell, UK Message-ID: Dear Nic, I would be grateful if you could highlight this 2 year position at Syngenta for a person with a passion for a lab based Drosophila role. Thank you in advance, Lucy -- Dear all on the LFM, I'd like to highlight an exciting opportunity to apply Drosophila skills and knowledge at Syngenta, a global agricultural biotech company based in Berkshire, UK. Our Invertebrate Genetics in the department of Bioscience conducts critical research to support development and improve understanding of novel insecticides. We are looking for a lab-based scientist to work with the model species Drosophila melanogaster and to deploy molecular genetic tools to support our insecticide discovery pipeline. A key component of this work will be enhancing our abilities to genetically validate potential new insecticide targets. The objective is to subsequently develop and deploy such tools in non-model agricultural pests. An enthusiasm and ability for working outside of the model species is therefore essential. This is a position for 2 years. Accountabilities: * Work with the project lead to evaluate and deploy molecular-genetic technologies to enable modulation of putative insecticide targets. * Execute studies to support insecticide projects and programs. * Communicate outcomes of experimental activities with stakeholders. * Assist with the maintenance and enhancement of the invertebrate molecular laboratory * Assist with routine stock maintenance and compound screening activities. * Solve scientific problems and produce high-quality data to enable the project/platform to address business challenges using proven methodologies. * Document experiments and test results, contributing to reports and proposing appropriate follow up actions. * Maintain high standards of HSE compliance, which includes following all risk assessments, reporting of safety incidents, and supporting the lab steward's community when requested. Experience & skills: * Must have a degree / MSc in a relevant science discipline. Appropriate technical science background is essential. * Experience in a lab-based role is essential. * Experience / knowledge of molecular genetic techniques is essential. * Experience of working with Drosophila melanogaster is desirable. * Excellent note keeping and organisational skills. * Ability to interact effectively with colleagues. Good influencing skills. We embrace and encourage diversity, and this is what drives our innovation and lets us outperform the market. https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion If you are interested and would like further information please contact lucy.firth at syngenta.com or marcus.guest at syngenta.com Deadline: End of Sept 2026. Kind Regards, Lucy Firth Lucy Firth Ph.D. Target Identification, Bioscience Please note my working days are Mon-Thurs [Description: Description: SyngentaLogo_ColourRGB] Jealott's Hill International Research Centre Bracknell Berkshire RG42 6EY United Kingdom *lucy.firth at syngenta.com * www.syngenta.com This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the designated recipient, please notify the sender immediately, and delete the original and any copies. Any use of the message by you is prohibited. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Despite its ubiquitous role in nature and human society, we still lack a mechanistic account of how the presence of rivals (?competitive pressure?) is translated into changes in decision-making. Here, we harness the experimental power of the fruit fly Drosophila to elucidate how neural networks balance risk and reward under competitive pressure. We show that males exposed to rivals persist in courting females despite visual threats. This risk-taking behaviour requires prior social experience, implicating lasting changes in decision-making circuits. By combining our behavioural assay with neurogenetics, connectomics and a pioneering live imaging system to track neural activity in courting males under visual threats and rivals, we uncover a neural mechanism that integrates competitive cues with experience-dependent signals to steer decisions during this sex?survival conflict. Our findings reveal how social pressure recalibrates motivation and biases high-stakes behavioural choice at cellular and circuit levels. Host: Arantza Barrios and Marc Amoyel Best wishes, Marc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We're a new and diverse group with interests in sex differences in immunity and infection, bacterial evolution and adaptation, and host-pathogen metabolic interactions. Both positions will be working on a project investigating the mechanisms responsible for fat loss during bacterial infection and how the sex of an individual contributes to this process. Please share with anyone who might be a good fit. Informal chats and queries are welcome; please get in touch with me at c.vincent at qmul.ac.uk. Details of the Postdoctoral position can be found here. Details of the Research Assistant position can be found here. Many thanks in advance for sharing across your networks. Best, Crystal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lucy.Fea at crick.ac.uk Wed Sep 16 10:54:07 2026 From: Lucy.Fea at crick.ac.uk (Lucy Fea) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:54:07 +0000 Subject: [Lfm] FW: LFM: Job Opportunity at Syngenta, Bracknell, UK In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please see message below from Lucy Firth re a 2 year position at Syngenta for a person with a passion for a lab based Drosophila role. -- Dear all on the LFM, I'd like to highlight an exciting opportunity to apply Drosophila skills and knowledge at Syngenta, a global agricultural biotech company based in Berkshire, UK. Our Invertebrate Genetics in the department of Bioscience conducts critical research to support development and improve understanding of novel insecticides. We are looking for a lab-based scientist to work with the model species Drosophila melanogaster and to deploy molecular genetic tools to support our insecticide discovery pipeline. A key component of this work will be enhancing our abilities to genetically validate potential new insecticide targets. The objective is to subsequently develop and deploy such tools in non-model agricultural pests. An enthusiasm and ability for working outside of the model species is therefore essential. This is a position for 2 years. Accountabilities: * Work with the project lead to evaluate and deploy molecular-genetic technologies to enable modulation of putative insecticide targets. * Execute studies to support insecticide projects and programs. * Communicate outcomes of experimental activities with stakeholders. * Assist with the maintenance and enhancement of the invertebrate molecular laboratory * Assist with routine stock maintenance and compound screening activities. * Solve scientific problems and produce high-quality data to enable the project/platform to address business challenges using proven methodologies. * Document experiments and test results, contributing to reports and proposing appropriate follow up actions. * Maintain high standards of HSE compliance, which includes following all risk assessments, reporting of safety incidents, and supporting the lab steward's community when requested. Experience & skills: * Must have a degree / MSc in a relevant science discipline. Appropriate technical science background is essential. * Experience in a lab-based role is essential. * Experience / knowledge of molecular genetic techniques is essential. * Experience of working with Drosophila melanogaster is desirable. * Excellent note keeping and organisational skills. * Ability to interact effectively with colleagues. Good influencing skills. We embrace and encourage diversity, and this is what drives our innovation and lets us outperform the market. https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion If you are interested and would like further information please contact lucy.firth at syngenta.com or marcus.guest at syngenta.com Deadline: End of Sept 2026. Kind Regards, Lucy Firth Lucy Firth Ph.D. Target Identification, Bioscience Please note my working days are Mon-Thurs [Description: Description: SyngentaLogo_ColourRGB] Jealott's Hill International Research Centre Bracknell Berkshire RG42 6EY United Kingdom *lucy.firth at syngenta.com * www.syngenta.com ________________________________ This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the designated recipient, please notify the sender immediately, and delete the original and any copies. Any use of the message by you is prohibited. Syngenta seeks to preserve and promote competition and deter anticompetitive conduct. 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Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From Lucy.Fea at crick.ac.uk Wed Sep 16 15:51:57 2026 From: Lucy.Fea at crick.ac.uk (Lucy Fea) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:51:57 +0000 Subject: [Lfm] FW: Postdoctoral and Research Assistant Positions at QMUL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From: Isabel Palacios > Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2026 at 09:31 To: lfm at londonflymeeting.org > Subject: FW: Postdoctoral and Research Assistant Positions at QMUL Dear All, See below two positions (postdoc and technician) at QMUL Thanks Isabel M Palacios Fogg Building | QMUL Mile End, London https://palacioslabqmul.squarespace.com Founder of DrosAfrica (http://drosafrica.org) EMBO Member ________________________________ From: Crystal Vincent > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 10:19:00 am To: lfm at londonflymeeting.org > Subject: Postdoctoral and Research Assistant Positions at QMUL Good morning, We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (3-year) and a Research Assistant (3-year, part-time) to join our group at QMUL. We're a new and diverse group with interests in sex differences in immunity and infection, bacterial evolution and adaptation, and host-pathogen metabolic interactions. Both positions will be working on a project investigating the mechanisms responsible for fat loss during bacterial infection and how the sex of an individual contributes to this process. Please share with anyone who might be a good fit. Informal chats and queries are welcome; please get in touch with me at c.vincent at qmul.ac.uk. Details of the Postdoctoral position can be found here. Details of the Research Assistant position can be found here. Many thanks in advance for sharing across your networks. Best, Crystal The Francis Crick Institute Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales no. 1140062 and a company registered in England and Wales no. 06885462, with its registered office at 1 Midland Road London NW1 1AT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Helen.Weavers at bristol.ac.uk Thu Sep 17 12:42:56 2026 From: Helen.Weavers at bristol.ac.uk (Helen Weavers) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:42:56 +0000 Subject: [Lfm] Post-doc Position available with Weavers Group in Bristol Message-ID: Dear all The Weavers Group at the University of Bristol is recruiting a Post-doctoral Research Associate, to join a Wellcome Trust-funded programme aimed at uncovering the dynamic cell biology supporting tissue function and repair. Our group studies the cellular mechanisms that enable tissues to thrive, particularly under physiological and environmental challenge. Here, we will probe how cell biology is precisely patterned across vulnerable tissues, and why its dysregulation drives ageing and disease. This work builds on our recent findings showing how stress responses and metabolism are coordinated across healthy and damaged tissues (e.g. Holcombe & Weavers Nature Communications 2023). You will contribute to a multidisciplinary programme combining in vivo studies in Drosophila (with live-imaging, genetics, molecular cell biology, spatial ?omics), with innovative technologies and collaborative works on mammalian and human tissue. Our work spans multiple biological scales - linking the molecular cell biology of individual cells to the health of whole living tissues and organisms. The Position is available for three years in the first instance, with potential extension, and offers strong opportunities for collaboration and career development. The position is available from January 2027, although the start date is negotiable. Applications will close on 14th October 2026. Please see the online advert here and our group website. Informal enquiries to Dr Helen Weavers (Helen.weavers at bristol.ac.uk) are welcome. Many thanks in advance for sharing these opportunities across your networks. Helen Dr Helen Weavers | Associate Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow | Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Fellow School of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences | University of Bristol, BS8 1TD UK Tel: +44 (0)117 455 9201 | Email: helen.weavers at bristol.ac.uk Lab Website: www.tissueresilience.com My working day may not be the same as yours. I don?t expect a reply outside of your normal working hours. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lucy.Fea at crick.ac.uk Thu Sep 17 16:51:03 2026 From: Lucy.Fea at crick.ac.uk (Lucy Fea) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:51:03 +0000 Subject: [Lfm] LFM Friday 23 October 2026 Message-ID: Dear all, The second of our biannual LFMs will be on Friday 23 October 2026 at the Crick (in the auditorium and/or seminar rooms 3, 4 and 5). Please could you let us know by 12 October at the latest if you plan to attend by responding to the Eventbrite invitation in the link below: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lfm-23-october-2026-tickets-2001396808731?aff=oddtdtcreator The talks will start at 1pm with each talk lasting 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. There will be a coffee break and an exhibition by our sponsor, BMKGene from 2.45-3.15pm and the talks will finish at 4.40pm for drinks and pizza. This is the programme: 1.00 - 1.25pm: Silvia Aldaz Casanova (Sharpe lab, Babraham Institute), "Mapping subcellular H2O2 dynamics reveals tissue specific redox patterns in Drosophila" 1.25 - 1.50pm: Abigail Wilson (Jepson lab, UCL), "A Drosophila Torsin knockout model recapitulates key behavioural and neuronal hallmarks of dystonia" 1.50 - 2.15pm: Lena Lampe (Gould lab, Crick). "A cuticular lipid barrier shields metamorphosis from environmental stress" 2.15 - 2.40pm: Ramya Ranganathan (Fernandes lab, UCL), "Defining the pan-neuronal transcriptome and its regulatory logic during neuronal differentiation" 2.40 - 2.45pm: Sponsor presentation by Paul Norton (BMKgene) 2.45 - 3.15pm: Coffee and exhibition by sponsor 3.15 - 3.40pm: David Wilnow (Vincent lab, Crick), "Glycosaminoglycans trigger Wnt multimerization to direct planar transport across epithelia" 3.40 - 4.05pm: Tia Griffiths (Vagnoni lab, KCL), "Mapping mitochondria-organelle contact sites during neuronal ageing and neurodegeneration" 4.05 - 4.30pm: Euan Mortlock (French lab, Bristol), "Brains and Beauty: Linking mushroom body investment and sleep composition in Heliconius butterflies" 4.30 - 4.40pm: Fly community news from Nic Tapon Send your new lab members here to sign up to the LFM mailing list: http://lists.londonflymeeting.org/listinfo/lfm The LFM was originally set up for London fly labs but it's now open to all UK fly labs, so please spread the word! Directions to the Crick: https://www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/visit-us This LFM is generously sponsored by BMKGene. [cid:image001.png at 01DD46CD.1ABA9B60] The Francis Crick Institute Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales no. 1140062 and a company registered in England and Wales no. 06885462, with its registered office at 1 Midland Road London NW1 1AT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 21171 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From a.barrios at ucl.ac.uk Mon Sep 21 10:11:32 2026 From: a.barrios at ucl.ac.uk (Arantza Barrios) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:11:32 +0000 Subject: [Lfm] Seminar of interest In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear fly community, Please let me know if you would like to speak with Carolina when she visits UCL next week. Thanks, Arantza Arantza Barrios, Associate Professor Year 2 Tutor Biomedical Sciences BSc University College London Dept. Cell and Developmental Biology Anatomy Building, 2nd Floor, Room 202d Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT a.barrios at ucl.ac.uk https://www.barrioslab.org On 15 Sep 2026, at 16:43, Marc Amoyel > wrote: Dear all, I thought this upcoming seminar in our department could be of interest to some of you: Please join us a CDB Special Seminar by Dr Carolina Rezaval of the University of Birmingham. Decoding Competition in the Brain Thursday, 1st October 1:00pm-2:00pm Venue: G08 Sir David Davies LT, Roberts Building (accessibility guide) Competition is a key evolutionary force that drives organisms to exceptional performance in pursuit of critical goals such as food and mates. Yet it can also promote excessive risk-taking and maladaptive choices. Despite its ubiquitous role in nature and human society, we still lack a mechanistic account of how the presence of rivals (?competitive pressure?) is translated into changes in decision-making. Here, we harness the experimental power of the fruit fly Drosophila to elucidate how neural networks balance risk and reward under competitive pressure. We show that males exposed to rivals persist in courting females despite visual threats. This risk-taking behaviour requires prior social experience, implicating lasting changes in decision-making circuits. By combining our behavioural assay with neurogenetics, connectomics and a pioneering live imaging system to track neural activity in courting males under visual threats and rivals, we uncover a neural mechanism that integrates competitive cues with experience-dependent signals to steer decisions during this sex?survival conflict. Our findings reveal how social pressure recalibrates motivation and biases high-stakes behavioural choice at cellular and circuit levels. Host: Arantza Barrios and Marc Amoyel Best wishes, Marc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kc280 at leicester.ac.uk Thu Sep 24 15:25:00 2026 From: kc280 at leicester.ac.uk (Chen, Ko-Fan (Dr.)) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:25:00 +0000 Subject: [Lfm] two PhD projects on light and sleep Message-ID: Dear LFMer I will have two DTP projects this year, exploring vision, light and Drosophila sleep, please circulate to anyone that may be interested. see outline of the projects here: https://www.kofanchenlab.net/come-join-us Please note, I do not consent inputting of my research writing to LLMs, please ask me prior to input any shared texts. 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