Hadi Boukhatmi

Happy New Year 2026!

This year, Hadi Boukhatmi, Régis Giet and I are delighted to be organising the 36th French Droso Meeting in Brittany, from 5 to 8 October.
A great line-up of speakers

Mark the date in your diaries !

The meeting website containing all the details will be opening very soon.

Happy 2026 everyone- the time has come to apply!
Registration for this exciting Dev Bio conference is until the end of January!

📣 #Job alert!
Looking to establish your own independent research in cell biology, development or evo-devo?
The @cnrs.fr is recruiting 7 scientists in that area of research.
Here are updated unofficial guidelines. Reach out to members of the committee if you have questions
c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...

An open webinar on our reproducibility project 'WHAT 400 DROSOPHILA PAPERS Teach Us about Doing Better Science' on December 9th 2PM EEST time (1PM Swiss time). Registration below

TET exhibits enzymatic-independent and-dependent functions during Drosophila flight muscle development and aging - Skeletal Muscle Background Enzymes of the Ten-Eleven Translocation family are responsible for 5-methylcytosine (5mC) oxidation and play a key role in regulating DNA demethylation during various developmental processe...

Glad to share our latest work showing that #drosophila epigenetic enzyme TET controls muscle development independently of its catalytic activity but prevents muscle aging in a catalytic-dependent manner!
Congratulations to Vincent and Emilie @igred.fr !

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From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected Nature - In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake

go.nature.com/3X5lbUg

AI-generated image of a lightsaber-wielding figure conquering Portugal.

Preparations for the next JEDI meeting are underway! The upcoming Junior European #Drosophila Investigator / #NewPI meeting is planned for Portugal in June. Final dates and additional details will be announced soon - stay tuned for updates!​

Starting Monday!!! If you are in Paris, feel free to drop in for this exceptional course!

Developmental Biology lost a giant yesterday 😔
May his legacy thrive and keep inspiring current and future generations of scientists

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Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale

apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

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Pvf1-Pvr-mediated crosstalk between trachea and gut guides intestinal stem cell migration to promote gut regeneration - Nature Communications Adult stem cells often reside in specialized niches that they exit upon injury. Here they show that in Drosophila, after damage the gut-associated trachea produces the PDGF-VEGF-related ligand Pvf1, which acts as a guidance cue directing ISC migration toward injury sites.

Excited to share our last paper describing how intestinal stem cell migration promotes gut regeneration!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to the organisers and all attendants for this great meeting #EDRC2025 . See you in Bonn! #drosophila #edrc2027

Thank you to all #EDRC2025 participants and a big applause to the organizing committee for this great #Drosophila meeting! See you all in Bonn for #EDRC2027

Dear JEDIs,
as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to katja.rust@uni-marburg.de to be added to our database.
#Drosophila
@fly-eds.bsky.social

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We are recruiting postdocs and PhD students! 🎓🔬

Check out the offer here 👉 igfl.ens-lyon.fr/equipes/j-en...

Please share, thanks! 🙏

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You just finished your PhD and you are looking for a postdoc to study stress-dependent modulation of learning. We are using the powerful fly model to understand the underlying circuits and mechanisms. You can apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Group photo of the JEDI meeting 2025 at Château du Feÿ.

We want to thank everyone who attended this year's #Drosophila JEDI meeting at Château du Feÿ! Three days of amazing talks, great ideas and chat at the camp fire. We are looking forward to meeting everyone again at the next meeting!

Formal application for 2 posts-doctoral research positions in the lab can now be submitted here:

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Beautiful piece of work!!! @michalis-averof.bsky.social and co!!!!

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

DW, I just joined recently 🙂 Thanks so much for the kind repost!

Our new preprint is out !
We uncover how adult Drosophila muscles respond to injury through a coordinated dialogue between hemocytes, tracheal cells, and muscles.
Check it out and please share
@igdrennes.bsky.social

Our preprint has been highlighted by @prelights.bsky.social and @jontytownson.bsky.social ! 🙏 Huge thanks for helping us share our work with this wonderful community

Immune–tracheal intercellular signalling coordinates the muscle injury response in Drosophila - preLights Something SPARC’d between us and left me Breathless: Haemolymph cells turn on repair in the Drosophila tracheal system

I have written another #preLight post, featuring the first work from the Boukhatmi lab. Always fun to read a #fly paper, especially with #microscopy too! Check it out if you like injury repair and tissue/ECM remodeling.

prelights.biologists.com/highlights/i...
#Repair #ImmuneCells #preprint #ECM