Julie Carnesecchi

🎉 Thrilled to share our new paper in @narjournal.bsky.social! We uncover how the Hox TF Ultrabithorax controls alternative splicing to shape muscle patterning and homeotic identity 🧬 @igmm-montpel.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

It is a wrap of a wonderful week of #RNA biology at @embl.org Heidelberg for the #EESRNA, a co-chairing co-transcriptional session, lots of scientific discussions, exciting and inspiring science🤩...and some fun with a warm scientific community 🥰. And huge thanks for the spotless organisation🙌!

It's exciting to see so many enthusiastic researchers sharing their science at 'The complex life of RNA' 🥼 Here are some impressions from the second poster session! #EESRNA 🧪

#EESRNA is packed full of fascinating science and new research, but it's also a lot of fun! Yesterday our participants got the chance to get to know each other better during our human bingo ✍️

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This mentoring program is tailored for junior #Drosophila researchers, including #PhD, #Postdoc and #NewPI and is still accepting mentee requests!

A prototype ribosome was engineered to carry the instructions for one specific protein and make only that protein. It produced several proteins, but its full potential is still unresolved. doi.org/hch226

Many things are beyond our control, but we control how we treat other people. We can choose to act with integrity. We can choose to be authentic & empathetic. We can choose to pay attention, help, support and encourage our colleagues. 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞.

@lucievleeuwen.bsky.social, a talented postdoc in my lab, in collaboration with the @hayleysharpe.bsky.social and Dansen lab, developed a variety of fly lines with redox sensors in different subcellular compartments, revealing distinct H2O2 patterns during development. Read more below!

Join Carolina's lab! Wonderful mentor and amazing research!

Great piece on octopus ribosomes — and on the importance of following unexpected observations and looking in new places to find new things :) current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/octo...

We have a new preprint! We identify SPARC as a key mediator of intercellular communication between the #stroma and #tumours #CancerBiology #TumourMicroenvironment #Drosophila #CellBiology #Notch #ECM #Preprint @igdrennes.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How did octopuses evolve novel traits? Rishav Mitra, Richard Han, Trey Scott, et al serendipitously discover a unique ribosome adaptation that increases the accuracy of protein synthesis and evolved alongside their elaborate nervous systems vs deep sea relatives. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very sensible thread regarding the new eligibility criteria for the ANR. As usual, I can see where these decisions come from, I can NOT understand how they ended up there…

"A journal" was @biologyopen.bsky.social from the @biologists.bsky.social

The abstract submission deadline for #EESRNA is only a week away! Don't miss your chance to present your research at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'The complex life of RNA', the central event for the RNA community. Submit your abstract by 7 July: s.embl.org/ees26-12-bl #RNA #RNAbiology

Crete Fly 2026 is a wrap! brain overflowing with info, and heart full with joy, after a week of stimulating talks, discussions, and catching up with old and new friends spanning 30 years of my life. also rocked the OAC with Cassandra Extavour for the first time, the fly community is the BEST!! 🪰🇬🇷

Greetings from the JEDI members that were selected for this year's @embo.org #Drosophila Crete meeting. Congratulations for giving amazing talks! From left: Helene Knævelsrud @helene-knavelsrud.bsky.social, Katja Rust @rustflylab.bsky.social and Julie Carnesecchi @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social

The amazing JEDI crowd 2026! Hurray for an inspiring #Drosophila meeting at a gorgeous location. Thank you to everyone who attended!

Today our keynote speaker Eugenia Chiappe from @champalimaudf.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk. The JEDI's enjoyed interacting with a first generation JEDI, who attended these #Drosophila meetings when she first started her lab. Thank you, Eugenia!

The first few talks of this year's conference have been amazing! Here is a picture of @katrin-domsch.bsky.social rocking the stage talking about #Drosophila muscle development!

Amazing news! The company of biologists @biologists.bsky.social has decided to support our upcoming meeting! We now only have a couple of spots left for the upcoming JEDI #Drosophila meeting. 📍Palmela, Portugal 📅 June 1st to 3rd Register: congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...

Extended registration deadline for our conference (June 1st - 3rd in Palmela, Portugal) to May 15th! Join if you are a Junior #Drosophila PI or senior #postdoc about to transition to independence. Spread the word! 🎬Venue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P1n... 🔗Registration: fly-jedi.org/meetings/202...

Registration is now OPEN for the French Drosophila Meeting! 🪰 Join us for an exciting conference featuring a fantastic lineup of invited speakers. drosofrance26.sciencesconf.org Deadline: June 30 Places are limited, so don’t wait! We look forward to seeing you at Trégastel ! @igdrennes.bsky.social

‼️ GENTLE REMINDER ‼️
Only 1 week left to register! Don’t miss this opportunity to come together and discuss the hottest topics in Drosophila research! Join us in Pamela to enjoy great science, sun, and of course… pastéis de nata! We can’t wait to see you there!

Now we're cooking !!! #Drosophila folks never disappoint - I love it that they called it MIMOSAS 🍸 @narjournal.bsky.social #RNA #splicing

Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment. So here's a 🧵. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Beyond delighted to share our amazing collaboration with Thierry Alquier's lab @alquierthierry.bsky.social on a conserved role for neuronal lipid droplets in regulating energy homeostasis in vivo led by Celena Cherian, Romane Manceau, Danie Majeur, and Colin Miller www.nature.com/articles/s42... /1

#ESR #VeilleESR Tribune de la C3N du #CNRS signée par plus de 700 scientifiques (membres du comité national, directrices et directeurs d'unités) pour alerter une nouvelle fois sur les conséquences des coupes budgétaires c3n-cn.fr/2026/04/10/b...

🔬IGMM (CNRS/ Univ Montpellier) is hiring Group Leaders in Innovative Biology. @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social 📅 1 May–15 June 2026 📩 search2026@igmm.cnrs.fr 📎Full information 👇 #LifeScience #MolecularBiology #Research #PI #CNRS

There are Science papers and then there are *I just dropped and shattered my mug of coffee Usual Suspects style* Science papers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

« world leadership goes through investing in research and science »… France is clearly shooting itself in the foot (again) by announcing new major budget cuts with immediate effects on all @cnrs.fr institutes! 😩

Axial Patterning Beyond the Individual: Colony-level Organization in a Siphonophore Colony https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.01.715818v1

Look at this view! And even better: every attendee gives a talk making this meeting extremely collaborative. This is THE meeting to be for #NewPI #Drosophila researchers - and those who want to connect to them!

If you’re a people pleaser, a key to effective time management is remembering that you’re usually going to be disappointing someone. When we take on a task we don’t need or want to do just to make someone happy, it usually comes at the cost of letting down ourselves or those closest to us.

Can we predict health, Or when flies drop like fall leaves? Yes, chemotypes can! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Drosophila #AgingResearch #sciku @thescikuproject.bsky.social

Our paper is now available as early access at Nature Communications! Using the #Drosophila follicle epithelium as a model, we applied #scRNAseq, #LiveImaging, and cell biological tools to unravel functions of aberrant EGFR-Ras and Hedgehog signaling. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An analysis of published papers on eight widely studied “model” organisms suggests work on them is fading, but not everyone is worried. https://scim.ag/3PaOvIs

Happy to announce I've launched a new service for the fly community: flyRoom, a web-based comprehensive stock manager for all your fly pushing needs. Organise all your stocks, maps all your genotypes, plan your crosses, print and scan your labels. Give it a try and let your colleagues know!

Calling all #Drosophila #NewPI #researchers! A few spots remain for the upcoming JEDI Conference - and you won’t want to miss this! Every attendee gives a talk, making the exchange dynamic, personal, and highly interactive - all at a stunning venue that inspires collaboration and creativity.

"we propose that the protoribosome was a parasite (...). If this view is correct, then like the spliceosome in the stem eukaryote, a repurposed host-parasite interaction led to a dramatic change in cell biology at the base of the tree of life, in this case leading to the exit from an RNA world"

#Drosophila #FlyCROSS 2025-26 updates - 84 mentor-mentee matches were made ✅ Out of which 90 % of mentees were matched to one of their preferred mentors. Keep and eye for the future program notifications. See you all at #Dros26 Below are the mentee demographics and response summary. (1/n)

Had a great time with my #drosophila #JEDI fellows Adam Dobson and @nathanwoodling.bsky.social. Thanks so much Adam for the invitation: exciting science, insightful EDI discussions and great colleagues at the School of Molecular Biosciences in Glasgow! A rainy but so friendly scottish spirit 😊

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller? Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase. 1/n

The registration is open! Junior #Drosophila PIs, join us for inspiring scientific discussion, contribute a talk and listen to our keynote speaker, Eugenia Chiappe. We meet in Palmela, Portugal from June 1st to 3rd. Register soon as spots are limited! congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/inseri...

Looking forward to this exiting collaboration with @clembrnrd.bsky.social on RNA biology! can't wait to meet in London, Exeter and in our @igmm-montpel.bsky.social Manu thanks to the British Council for their support.

Registration will open soon for the next JEDI meeting: June 1st - 3rd in Palmela, Portugal! Join us and our keynote speaker Eugenia Chiappe. Her #neuroscience lab studies how #Drosophila estimates its own movement and integrates sensory inputs to control locomotion. chiappelab.org