Adrien Franchet

An intercellular metabolic relay for brain sparingin Drosophila

The paper identifies an intercellular metabolic relay involving glutamine and glutamate that sustains neural stem cell proliferation during brain sparing in Drosophila.

Nora virus proliferates in dividing intestinal stem cells and thereby sensitizes Drosophila flies to Pseudomonas aeruginosa intestinal infection and to oxidative stress

This study shows that Nora virus in Drosophila gut progenitor cells increases susceptibility to bacterial infection and oxidative stress by proliferating during cell division.

RhlR, but not RhlI, allows P. aeruginosa bacteria to evade Drosophila Tep4- mediated opsonization

This study shows that RhlR, not RhlI, enables P. aeruginosa to evade Drosophila Tep4-mediated opsonization, highlighting a RhlI-independent immune evasion mechanism.