Irene Miguel-Aliaga @FlyGutLab Twitter profile

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

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Latest from the lab: The Sex of Organ Geometry – aka ORGAN ORIGAMI! Organs exist in male and female configurations. For some 3D insights into how and why see (spoiler: it’s mechanochemical)

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

9 months

Some lab news: after 12 very happy years at the @MRC_LMS , we and our guts will be moving to @TheCrick early next year!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

Testes are hungry; they want citrate. They talk to the gut and make it male. The male gut feeds citrate to the testes. Testes are happy. They make sperm. Lab’s latest and the filthiest of summer reads:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Eating for two? Blame your gut neurons! (or so say flies...). By the phenomenal @Drosostalis , our dream team and great collaborators @EnergyMemoryLab @deMendoza_Alex @aexbrown and Fengqiu Dia and Ben White

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

1 year

Pleased, relieved, excited! Thank you @ERC_Research and those of you out there who believed in our idea. It couldn't have happened without a great team, past and present. Special mention to Laura Blackie and Pedro Gaspar, who were brave enough to take this on and make it fly!

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS)

@MRC_LMS

1 year

📣 Amazing #News Prof Miguel-Aliaga ( @FlyGutLab ) has been awarded with her 3rd grant from the @ERC_Research 🏅 Continuing her outstanding work at the LMS, she aims to interrogate further why organs have the shapes & positions they do. 👉 #ERCAdG

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Insulin signalling, intestinal interoception, sex differences and more: our review on how fruit flies lead to new discoveries in metabolism and metabolic disease is now out in @Cell_Metabolism

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

6 years

Everything you always wanted to know about the fly gut (and almost certainly more!). Our 35-page #FlyBook chapter with Henri Jasper and Bruno Lemaitre is out:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

Who needs progenitors? Terminally differentiated skin cells continue splitting without replicating their DNA!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Our lab’s latest, seven years in the making! #Zinc sensing in gut cells sustains #Tor signalling and promotes food intake. We got to name the sensor; #GameOfThrones fans will be pleased (I can’t say I am amongst them!) #Drosophila #Anopheles

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

If you're 35 or older and in the London area, we want your guts (well, images thereof, rather). Help us understand sex differences in the human GI tract. Retweets much appreciated!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

11 authors: 9 did the work in my @MRC_LMS lab, all EU citizens, only 1 UK citizen. Together = exciting discoveries for which UK institutions @The_MRC @imperialcollege get the credit. This is what "foreigners stealing our jobs" really looks like #Brexit

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS)

@MRC_LMS

5 years

New research from @FlyGutLab and colleagues published today reveals how the testes talk to the gut to get the molecule that is needed for sperm production. Read more and check out some incredible images here:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

I wrote about the importance of including both sexes in your experiments, even as a molecular/cell biologist @NatRevMCB

Let’s talk about (biological) sex

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology - Irene Miguel-Aliaga comments on the importance of considering biological sex as an experimental variable.

www.nature.com

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

If you're in the London area, we want your guts (well, images thereof, rather). Help us understand sex differences in the human GI tract!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

Wow a segmentation clock in a bacterial community

A segmentation clock patterns cellular differentiation in a bacterial biofilm

Bacterial biofilms exhibit a clock and wavefront process that spatially patterns sporulation without requiring long-range diffusion of molecular signals and is reminiscent of patterning mechanisms...

www.cell.com

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Food, microbes, sex and old age: our thoughts on what gastrointestinal neurons do and how/why they change. Out today in Current Opinion in Neurobiology:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Our #Keystone symposium Metabolic Decisions in Development and Disease is around the corner! Abstract deadline for talks in a week. Great speakers including co-hosts @RJDLab and Marian Walhout. Come see how smart #metabolites can be! #VKSMetaDisease21

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Inter-organ and interactive: virtual get together @MRC_LMS hosted by our Genes & Metabolism Section. Short talks, longer discussions. Free registration. Book early to avoid disappointment ;) #LMSInterOrgan

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Supplementary information: always worth reading

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Cool lab day out yesterday, off the beaten track tour of the East End’s history and street art (and pub lunch of course). Thank you @AlternativeLdn !

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

6 years

How to start a paper: "Our bodies are catacombs of spaces connected to the outside world and filled with fluid" (by Jared Diamond, in his first life as a physiologist). What can you possibly write after that?

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

If anyone is left on Twitter, you might be interested in this review I contributed to - mainly the (good) work of @TrajkovskiMirko and Ozren Stojanovic. Comes with lots of pretty gut cartoons!

Mirko Trajkovski

@TrajkovskiMirko

2 years

Did you know that the gut can grow and shrink? And that this intestinal remodelling impacts its capacity to take up calories? Check out our latest paper (very nice collaboration with @FlyGutLab ) on gut size just published in @NatMetabolism . Read here:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Looking forward to meeting you in 2D!

Brain-Body Interactions

@BrainBodyInter1

4 years

Join us on Monday, when the amazing Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga @FlyGutLab will tell us about the plasticity of the intestine in adult flies & mammals, gut-brain communication, and more. Register here: where you can also sign up for the Q&A afterwards.

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

but looking forward to our new life in the brand new @MRC_LMS building, which is looking fabulous! (thanks @vaquerizas_lab for the picture). You will find us on the 4th floor.

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

The RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research @BDR_RIKEN is recruiting team leaders and hosting a cool symposium on biological transitions in March, deadline in Jan... make it your New Year's resolution! @MRC_LMS @vaquerizasjm and myself will be there.

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

8 months

Very happy this special issue is out. Various articles showcase instructive roles of #metabolites in #development in a range of animal/plant systems. Plus a bunch of thoughtful, more conceptual reviews. Pleasure to put it together with @lydfinley , @RutterLab and Josh Gendron!

Development

@Dev_journal

8 months

Special Issue #DevSImetabolism is now complete! Cover image: During Stage 10B of Drosophila oogenesis, lipid droplets (green) accumulate at the same time as the actin cytoskeleton undergoes dynamic remodelling (magenta). See Research Article Giedt et al.

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

10 months

Registration for the Physiology event of the year is now open. All animals welcome! Help us spread the word and join us in Heidelberg or from wherever you are in the world.

EMBL Events

@EMBLEvents

10 months

Are you interested in various aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate animal physiology? 🦠 Or want to know how recent developments in whole-organism physiology can pave the way to novel, adapted, and efficient therapies for multiple degenerative diseases? Then come join us for

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

For those struggling with the first line of an abstract, this article provides a versatile one

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

8 months

Interested in the sex and geometry of organs? Come and do your PhD project with us at @TheCrick . Application deadline Nov 9!

Miguel-Aliaga Lab | The sex and geometry of organs

www.crick.ac.uk

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN. It is finally happening... in person or remotely! @embl Inter-organ communication in physiology and disease

Inter-organ communication in physiology and disease

www.embl.org

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

I never expected to get excited about a new exon but this is a cool finding / clear paper

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

6 years

Postdoc, technician and PhD posts available in the lab. Gut-brain, sex differences, organ plasticity, flies, mice, intestinal organoids. Friendly and international environment, excellent facilities, ERC/MRC-funded, Brexit-proof!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

8 months

I couldn't agree more! A big thank you to all the organisers and helpers for all the fun and scientific excitement!

EDRC2023

@EDRC2023

8 months

#EDRC2023 in a nutshell: Exciting Science, great people, full rooms and poster sessions, straws, boat trip, wine and cheese, great food and a superb party. The hearts of the organizing committee is very light after all the great feed backs we got. Thank you all. GO #EDRC2025 !!!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

my morning commute... just like the future

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

6 years

Rotting bananas, organ stickers. Fly labs @imperialcollege @MRC_LMS bringing flies to the masses at #ImpFest

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

Very clear and important piece, relevant to life scientists beyond neuroscience. Ditch your t tests and even your ANOVAs!

Beyond t test and ANOVA: applications of mixed-effects models for more rigorous statistical...

In this Primer, Yu et al. introduce linear and generalized mixed-effects models for improved statistical analysis in neuroscience research and provide clear instruction on how to recognize when they...

www.cell.com

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

Great work from our next door neighbours @HirabayashiLab ; muscle wasting feeds tumours with an amino acid, Holly and Susumu fixed the tumours with a drug!

Systemic muscle wasting and coordinated tumour response drive tumourigenesis

Cancer cells demand excess nutrients to support their proliferation, but how tumours exploit extracellular amino acids during systemic metabolic pertubations remain incompletely understood. Here we...

www.biorxiv.org

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Looking forward to contributing! Please consider @Dev_journal for your submissions on instructive roles of metabolites in development and beyond

James Briscoe

@briscoejames

4 years

New @Dev_journal editorial from @katemmabrown1 & me In which we welcome Associate Editors @pf_mg @TheLutolfLab @FlyGutLab @morris_lab @Ken_Poss_Lab Covering new & expanding areas of dev bio: modelling, engineering, metabolism, single cell, regeneration

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

7 years

"My scientific hero is women who persevere through prejudice and raise children while doing research" R. Medzhitov

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

"If you took 30 steps from your front door, with each step twice as large as the last, how far could you get? It’s 26 times the Earth’s circumference. Our inability to appreciate how powerful exponential growth can be has concrete consequences"

I'm an ER doctor. Please take coronavirus seriously | Clayton Dalton

Most people don’t understand exponential growth. If they did, they’d be far more frightened

www.theguardian.com

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

The placenta is an absolutely amazing organ - placenta and mesentery are two inexplicably understudied organs in our body. If only flies had them...

PLOS Biology

@PLOSBiology

5 years

The placenta's role in penis development - apparently not just a job for the testes. Human fetal masculinisation depends on #testosterone production by the testes and... on androsterone, made from placental precursors #PLOSBiology

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

I enjoyed this review's historical perspective. Good to know that the famous fathers of #Drosophila #cancer research had mothers. Plus references to Garcia-Marquez... what's not to like?

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

1 year

Congratulations to our PhD student @AlvaroCastanoM for his award-winning large intestine!

ENS_Development

@ens_development

1 year

Thanks to everyone who joined our imaging competition! It was an agonising decision for our judges 🧐but please congratulate our winners for their beautiful images!!!! 1st Prize: Anastasia Popwycz 2nd Prize: Morgane Le Dréan 3rd Prize: Álvaro Medina 🥳🥳🥳🙌🙌🙌

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

8 years

Insect Christmas and a Gutsy New Year from us! (festive fly courtesy of former lab member Paola Cognigni)

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

So no to no-deal, no to extension, no to the current deal and (EU says) no to amending the deal. Logically, that equals no Brexit. Except logic is nowhere to be found.

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

@MRC_LMS Me, a medal! My sports teacher at school would be gobsmacked! Thanks to lab members past and present, our collaborators, scientific community, @MRC_LMS , and @AlexGouldLab and Petra Hajkova for nominating me.

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Gut-brain event of the week (year!) Gastronauts Global starting tomorrow! @Lauracells and I will be hosting the London session featuring great speakers @RMedzhitov @UlrikaKMarklund @nilyapici and Layla Kamareddine

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

@LeulierFrancois Sydney Brenner, back in the 1970s....

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

8 years

Sex in unexpected places: our new work on #stemcells , organ size and #tumours is out

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

10 months

Congrats to all but particularly to our former lab member @Drosostalis , we are very proud!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

10 months

🎉 The latest ERC Starting Grant competition results are out! 400 bright minds have been awarded over €628 million to fund ideas at the frontiers of science & scholarship. Find out who, where and why 👉 🇪🇺 #EUfunded #FrontierResearch #ERCStG @HorizonEU

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Pleased to announce that our inter-organ meeting has been postponed to 20-23 March 2022. Stay safe in the meantime...

EMBL Events

@EMBLEvents

5 years

Discovering inter-organ communications and illustrating the progress of molecular and genetic understanding of whole-organism physiology. #EESInterOrgan Submit abstract by 6 January 2020⏳ 15 - 18 March 2020, Heidelberg, Germany👉

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

1 year

@ERC_Research And do get in touch if you're interested in inter-organ communication, 3D imaging, tissue geometry, tsetse flies or anything else we might not have thought of yet!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

6 years

Proud that we have achieved this. One small step for gender equality, one giant leap for a few people at work

Athena Swan Charter

@Athena_SWAN

6 years

#goodpractice from @MRC_LMS successfully lobbied the Medical Research Council to amend their policy regarding qualifying periods for maternity and paternity leave entitlement @imperialcollege #genderequality

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

1 year

Meta-Research: The need for more research into reproductive health and disease

An analysis of publications and research grants shows that the volume of research on reproductive organs is much less than that on non-reproductive organs.

elifesciences.org

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Immune cells as mediators of nutrient adaptability in the intestine. Beautiful study. Immune system increasingly looking like a broader "environment system"...

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

7 years

Our lab's latest: intestinal roles for the Ret neurotrophic receptor in flies/mice... but outside neurons!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

Virtual but just as exciting and interactive, and with an amazing speaker lineup. Deadline for abstracts in 3 weeks... make this your New Year's resolution!

EMBL Events

@EMBLEvents

3 years

❗📣 'Inter-organ communication in physiology and disease' goes fully VIRTUAL - and there's still time to sign up! #EESInterOrgan 👩🏿‍🔬💬 New deadlines: Abstracts➡️ 24 Jan Registration➡️ 21 Feb 👉🏾

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

What our "control" flies have been up to...

Sa Kan Yoo

@Yoo_Lab_RIKEN

3 years

1. The first paper from my lab became online @NatMetabolism . Our graduate student, Ayaka, mainly worked on this project. white, which should be the most famous fly gene, regulates aging-induced intestinal stem cell proliferation through folate metabolism.

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

We've gone virtual... and global: six short and sweet sessions hosted live from six different locations: Adelaide – Australia, Doha – Qatar, Durham – USA, London – UK, Nantes – France, and Porto Alegre – Brazil. Our contributors remain stellar!

Maxime Mahe

@MaximeMMahe

5 years

Interested in Gut-Brain axis with fantastic speakers? Come to🇫🇷 for #Gastronauts2020 🤯 👉34 days before early-bird registration ENDS !!! Check out the program:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

6 years

Enteroendocrine control of ovary physiology - the nice PhD work of our postdoc Tomo

PLOS Biology

@PLOSBiology

6 years

How mating enhances egg production: gut-derived systemic factor, neuropeptide F, couples mating stimulus (sex peptide from sperm) to germline stem cell behavior through inter-organ communication in the #FruitFly #PLOSBiology

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

High fat diet induces microbiota-dependent silencing of enteroendocrine cells

Enteroendocrine cells sense nutrients in the gut and regulate digestive physiology but are rendered insensitive following fat ingestion due to alteration of gut microbiota.

elifesciences.org

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Turning our #Brexit frustration into collaboration. First @MRC_LMS @HelmholtzMunich @PioneerCampus @helmholtz_diabc #metabolism workshop starting this afternoon

T. Schwarz-Romond

@tschwarzromond

4 years

Indeed: traveling for #Metabolism day to #London ⁦ @MRC_LMS ⁩ ⁦ @helmholtz_diabc ⁩ ⁦ @PioneerCampus ⁩

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

1 year

More power to micronutrients! Emily Strachan and I wrote about the latest work from the @PerrimonLab

Nature News & Views

@NatureNV

1 year

PXo bodies are a new type of organelle discovered in fruit flies. Emily Strachan & Irene Miguel-Aliaga @FlyGutLab unpack the implications of this finding in a great N&V

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

both sad and excited to vacate our current building. We will miss our neighbours in ICTEM @BorisLenhard @santiago_vernia @mikhailspivakov @tobias_warnecke !

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

1 year

including our very own PhD student @AlvaroCastanoM @MRC_LMS @ImperialMed ! Let's hope the prize is contagious ;)

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

@lindaunobel

1 year

Today, we invite 635 Young Scientists from all over the world to meet around 40 Nobel Laureates at the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (25-30 June 2023 | #Physiology #Medicine | #LINO23 ) We can't wait to welcome you all to Lindau!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

"Suzanne possessed a grace and sweetness that one rarely encounters. She loved complicated things and was a master at many of them"

MPI-CBG Dresden

@mpicbg

5 years

MPI-CBG remembers Suzanne Eaton: @mpicbg @csbdresden @BIOTEC_TUD @BIOTEC_TUD @maxplanckpress

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

worms "see" colour without eyes!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

9 years

50% female (and so far amazing) speakers at #2015SDB . Well done @___SDB___ ! #womeninscience

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

We’re at #ExRdFest again today from noon - learn about how and why our organs grow and shrink, and try to make the longest gut on our Bungee Gut!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

Just updated our lab's website. 60% female . Will do what I can to progress their careers equally and thus maintain the ratio #InternationalWomensDay

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

1 year

Our lab is there! Go and watch Chris Amourda and Laura Blackie's talks today, in the Patterning/Morphogenesis/Organogenesis and Physiology/Metabolism sessions

Lucy O'Brien Lab

@LOBrienLab

1 year

A beautiful beginning to #Dros23 in Chicago! Your humble Fly Meeting organizers @SavrajGrewal @levine_lab @DePaceLab @Jenjemc & Lucy are excited to welcome you for 4 fab days of flies and community! @GeneticsGSA

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@FlyGutLab

6 years

Thank you for another year of #SuffrageScience awards and very happy that one came back to us at the @MRC_LMS this time. Let's keep trying to make the voices of the underrepresented heard in science #womeninstem

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS)

@MRC_LMS

6 years

Today marks the fifth #SuffrageScience awards for Life Sciences and we are celebrating the new recipients from Institutes and Universities around the world with the handing on of heirloom jewellery designed by students at @csm_news

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@FlyGutLab

5 years

8 months too late, but this is an important commentary on our relentless and ultimately pernicious mis-use of “necessary and sufficient”. I am a convert. But don't follow me for breaking news.

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@FlyGutLab

3 years

"Inspired by organisms such as loaches that use intestinal air breathing"... power to comparative physiology!

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@FlyGutLab

2 years

Deadline for abstract submission Jan 24. We want to hear about YOUR ongoing work and new ideas. All animal models welcome! (even flies 😉) #EESInterOrgan @EMBLEvents

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@FlyGutLab

4 years

"In the most severe cases, the mutant flies consumed so much that they exploded, reminiscent of the scene in the Monty Python film The Meaning of Life in which a person’s stomach explodes because of gross overeating."

beijingfly

@weizhanglab

4 years

Visceral Mechano-sensing Neurons Control Drosophila Feeding by Using Piezo as a Sensor: Neuron

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@FlyGutLab

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Somewhat unfortunate timing and almost certainly useless against COVID-19, but great team effort and collaborations @Sia_hai , @ClarePilgrim @Lena_Riab @GiesenLena @farah_dahalan @marakat @nikiwind @tobias_warnecke @LeulierFrancois

Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Our lab’s latest, seven years in the making! #Zinc sensing in gut cells sustains #Tor signalling and promotes food intake. We got to name the sensor; #GameOfThrones fans will be pleased (I can’t say I am amongst them!) #Drosophila #Anopheles

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

guts come first, as always ;)

Dr Alice Francis

@alicefrancis123

2 years

Scientists that cook (and eat) 😋😋. Today our floor had an international lunch where everyone brings a plate from their home country. Such a delicious feast! @MRC_LMS #yum

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

6 years

featuring the first Drosophila faecal transplants!

@LeulierLab

7 years

Our latest paper now online: How a commensal bacteria benefits from its animal host and Why it matters.

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Animal behaviour controls body size/shape. Perhaps also relevant to organs within bodies

Aissam Ikmi

@AissamIkmi

3 years

What drives size and shape development in a soft-bodied animal? Our new preprint, led by the outstanding @EMBL PhD student, Anniek Stokkermans, in a prolific collaboration with @Prevedel_Lab / Hiiragi lab/ @Mahadevan_Lab , solves this morphological mystery!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

Please spread the word: positions for scientists displaced by conflict

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS)

@MRC_LMS

2 years

We have several opportunities for scientist refugees to join us. These Fellowships are designed to facilitate the continuation of a research career for post-doctoral researchers who have been displaced by conflict. Please share widely 👉

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

7 years

Registration open for Drosophila Crete meeting . PIs only, but new/female PIs particularly welcome #EMBODrosophila

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

"As long as there is stagnation in men’s roles, there will be an upper limit on the amount of change that can be achieved for women’s roles as well". Interesting perspective on gender bias including suggested actions

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

Join us for three short talks at the exciting interface between #development and #metabolism and consider submitting your work to this special issue I will be co-editing with @lydfinley @RutterLab and @GendronLab . All model (and non-model) organisms welcome!

Development

@Dev_journal

2 years

We are delighted to announce that the topic of our next #Devpres webinar & our upcoming special issue is ‘Metabolic and Nutritional Control of Development and Regeneration’. To register for #Devpres on Wed 7 Dec & for more on our call for papers:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Thanks to @Dev_journal for featuring our @KeystoneSymp meeting, and to @LlucMosteiro , @hanahariri and @Jellevda for writing about it!

Development

@Dev_journal

3 years

Metabolic decisions in development and disease A virtual @KeystoneSymp Meeting Review by @LlucMosteiro , @hanahariri & @Jellevda

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Happy to have contributed. Quoting T. Hiiragi "We need to know what we want to know. It will be the question, idea, and style that identify scientists—like an artist identifiable by their art. Be creative. Science will be once again closer to art."

20 years of Developmental Cell: Looking forward

In our 20th anniversary year, we reflect on how fields have changed since our first issue and here look to the future. In this collection of Voices, our writers speculate on the future: in terms of...

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

Defend or reproduce? Muscle-derived glutamate determines an immune-reproductive energetic tradeoff

There are dramatic disparities in infection susceptibility within populations. In this issue of Cell Metabolism, Zhao and Karpac uncover a muscle-adipose-gut axis in Drosophila that explains variab...

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

4 years

Important virtual EMBL/EMBO/HHMI conference on gender and academia coming up via @embl

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

1 year

proud of you Dafni! she is a good boss I can attest to that ;)

Dafni Hadjieconomou

@Drosostalis

1 year

I am very happy to share that I will be starting my group at the @ParisBrainInst ! We will work out how the “brain-gut axis” senses environmental changes that impact energy balance! Come and join us we are hiring at all levels! Please contact me directly for more information!!!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

Credit to many in the @FlyGutLab , our collaborators Thomas Preat and Pierre-Yves Placais and, especially, former postdoc Bruno Hudry who did most of the work and whose adventures from now on you may follow here

Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

Testes are hungry; they want citrate. They talk to the gut and make it male. The male gut feeds citrate to the testes. Testes are happy. They make sperm. Lab’s latest and the filthiest of summer reads:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

More Speed, More Haste, More Stress, More Waste. Assess quality rather than quantity, acknowledge teamwork

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

What a stimulating couple of days #EESInterOrgan . Great discussions on gut-brain-microbe communication, immune-metabolic crosstalk and non canonical inter-organ crosstalk. Thanks to all speakers and attendees!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

7 years

Looking for a postdoc? Interested in splicing and/or metabolism? Santiago Vernia and I have a joint project for you! Apply here by Dec 7:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

Happening tomorrow! Join us at 3pm GMT to hear about latest work at the interface of development and metabolism from the labs of @bulutkarslioglu @jvveenvliet @lydfinley @patton_lab . There is still time to register

Development

@Dev_journal

2 years

Our #Devpres webinar on metabolism is happening next week on Wednesday 7 December, featuring talks from Natalia López Anguita @nata__93 , Hannah Brunsdon and Benjamin Jackson @__btjackson , chaired by Irene Miguel-Aliaga. Register here:

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

6 years

So proud of my progeny I knew all the pub training would eventually pay off

Gerit Linneweber

@GeritLinneweber

6 years

Family meeting of former @FlyGutLab at #neurofly2018

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

Small, interactive symposium on inter-organ communication. Wider scope beyond the usual organs, signals and diseases

EMBL Events

@EMBLEvents

5 years

Discovering inter-organ communications and illustrating the progress of molecular and genetic understanding of whole-organism physiology. #EESInterOrgan Submit abstract by 6 January 2020⏳ 15 - 18 March 2020, Heidelberg, Germany👉

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

1 year

Well done lab and other volunteers for turning festival attendees into flies and guts!

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

2 years

Lysosomal cystine mobilization shapes the response of TORC1 and tissue growth to fasting

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

5 years

A must on your Christmas list. Broader scope beyond usual organs/models. Brain, gut, pancreas, liver and beyond. Health and disease. Worms, flies, mice, humans. Abstract deadline coming up! #EESInterOrgan

EMBL Events

@EMBLEvents

5 years

Discovering inter-organ communications and illustrating the progress of molecular and genetic understanding of whole-organism physiology. #EESInterOrgan Submit abstract by 6 January 2020⏳ 15 - 18 March 2020, Heidelberg, Germany👉

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

3 years

the ancestor of complex cells may have been an extrovert... nice feature on tentacled archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

The mysterious microbes that gave rise to complex life

Nature - As scientists learn more about enigmatic archaea, they’re finding clues about the evolution of the complex cells that make up people, plants and more.

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Irene Miguel-Aliaga

@FlyGutLab

6 years

From gut to brain... the neuropod way by @gutsybrains

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