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Michael White @mtwhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

lnkd.in/exDnxM_6 My team at Institut Pasteur Paris, in collaboration with the team of Dr Makhtar Niang at Institut Pasteur de Dakar, are searching for prospective PhD students through the Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Program.

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 30/09/2026

🍽️ Eating: One Behavior, Many Sciences! Join us Nov 9 at Institut Pasteur for an interdisciplinary exploration of how genes, brains, cultures & environments shape what we eat. Where nutrition meets neuroscience, genetics, anthropology & more. 🧬🧠🌍 📍Paris | 9:30–17:30 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not every cell react the same way to caspase activation. In our recent study (led by @tomcumming.bsky.social and initiated by @avillars.bsky.social ), we tried to better understand what explains this difference and outlined a role of past caspase exposure 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Asier Sáez-Cirión @asiersc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy to share our latest publication supporting a key role of NK cells in post-treatment control of SIV infection. In this work, we describe how constitutive characteristics of NK cells, present before infection, may influence the outcome after ART interruption. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Constitutive natural killer cell features associated with post-treatment control of SIV infection in the pVISCONTI study - Nature Communications

Early ART initiation enables durable HIV remission but the underlying immune mechanisms remain unclear. Here, Chapel, Romero-Martin and colleagues present evidence that constitutive NK cell features a...

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 24/09/2026

Two European cohorts, SysAge and @milieuinterieur.bsky.social, join forces for their first joint symposium: Immune variability across the life course. Oct 29, Institut Pasteur. Keynotes by Yasmine Belkaid and Rose-Anne Kenny. Registration ↘️ research.pasteur.fr/en/event/imm... #Pasteur2030

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Simonetta Gribaldo @sgribaldo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interested in #archaea, #methane, #cell-envelopes? New paper out @nature.com ! We discovered an enzyme that specifically cleaves the cell wall of methanogens, revealing a new chemical structure of archaeal peptidoglycan, 50 yrs after its first description www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky 🧵👇

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Bibliothèques de l'Université Paris Cité @upcitebib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dans le cadre de la collaboration entre @pasteur.fr et @upcite.bsky.social au sein de l'atelier de la donnée #FAIRDATACité, trois formations de l'Institut Pasteur sur la gestion des données de recherche en biologie-santé sont ouvertes à la communauté scientifique UPCité. 🖋️➡️ swll.to/LBpiea

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 23/09/2026

🤖 New AI can "see" antibiotic action on bacteria through microscopy alone—detecting effects invisible to standard tests. A breakthrough that could accelerate antibiotic discovery & combat resistance. 🔬 📖 www.pasteur.fr/en/whats-new...

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fun collaboration with the Van Melderen lab, led by Ludovic Belot on the acquisition and erosion of toxin-antitoxin systems in bacterial chromosomes. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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Acquisition and erosion of toxin-antitoxin systems in bacterial chromosomes

Abstract. Toxin-antitoxin systems (TAs) are widespread in bacterial genomes. Yet, their integration, persistence, and impact in chromosome dynamics remain

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 22/09/2026

🏆 The Duquesne Prize 2026 honors Jim Di Santo for his exceptional contributions to immunology—from discovering ILCs to developing innovative cell-based immunotherapies. A visionary leader shaping the future of vaccine & immunotherapy research. 🧬

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David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New paper from the lab, out in Nature Microbiology. We ran CRISPRi screens to ask what genes E. coli needs in order to live in a gut and what this can tell us about the gut environment itself. doi.org/10.1038/s41564-026-02471-8

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Two-way mitochondrial transfer between GBM tumour cells & astrocytes via nanotubes – a tumour adaptation that could be targeted 📹 Ines Saenz-de-Santa-Maria et al, @pasteur.fr @upcite.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 18/09/2026

🧬 HIV breakthrough: Institut Pasteur researchers reveal how lenacapavir works—it keeps the HIV capsid intact in the cell nucleus, redirecting the virus away from active genes & crippling replication. A major step toward limiting HIV persistence. 🔬 📖 www.pasteur.fr/en/whats-new...

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 10/09/2026

Ticks: a growing threat in Europe & worldwide. LabEx IBEID Symposium "Tiny Vectors, Major Threats" | Oct 8, 2026 | Institut Pasteur. Epidemiology, biology & vaccination on the agenda. Register ↘️ research.pasteur.fr/fr/event/tin... #TickBorneDiseases @ibeidlabex.bsky.social

Tique Ixodes ricinus vue en microscopie électronique à balayage. Image colorisée.
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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Institut Curie, Paris, symposium: Where Form Takes Shape October 27-28th 2026 (after the yearly International Developmental Biology course) Registration before October 10th (for free !): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... There will be short talks and posters selected from abstracts.

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Delarue Research @delarueresearch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our collaborative paper, with Daria Bonazzi and @dumenillab.bsky.social is finally out in Nat Comms! Using microfluidic confiners, amazing Laure Leblanc found that confined growth of E. coli uncouples growth and division, as well as pressure and biomass production. tinyurl.com/4zdwrp39

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Pedro Escoll @pescoll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New preprint in the lab! "Single-cell metabolomics reveals infection-specific metabolic reprogramming of human macrophages". Led by Paula Martínez, with @cbuch.bsky.social , Sandrine Aros and @jytinevez.bsky.social How does Legionella pneumophila reshape host metabolism at the single-cell scale? 🧵👇

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗢𝗢𝗖 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻! 👉 Register here: www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/e... 💬 Course in English with subtitles (English/French) 📆 Course access starts: September 29, 2026 🎓 100% free and self-paced. Paid Certificate Option

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📢master or PhD student interested in cell biology ? There are spots left for the Molecular Biology of the Cell course @pasteur.fr. Check the amazing list of lecturers + 1 week practical pocking choano cytokeleton with @thibautbrunet.bsky.social team. Registration 👇 www.pasteur.fr/fr/nous-conn...

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Michael White @mtwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

See below for an exciting post-doc opportunity at Institut Pasteur with my excellent colleague Aimee Taylor on Synthetic Data Simulation for Malaria Genomic Epidemiology. research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️

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Rapid repurposing of microvillar content drives a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest relative of animals

Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...

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Chassaing Laboratory @chassainglab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The deadline is coming for our international microbiome-focused symposium !!! Registration is FREE, and we are welcoming abstract submissions for posters and short presentations. Deadline : Sept 30th. research.pasteur.fr/en/event/int...

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Muscle with Hustle: Live imaging reveals muscle stem cell activity is impaired in Duchenne muscular dystrophy 📹 @sardeliza.bsky.social et al @pasteur.fr in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with John Ankers

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Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Check out our paper on ESCRTs in large DNA viruses. Most enveloped viruses use the host #ESCRT for envelopment, but only mirusviruses and nucleocytoviricots encode it! Congrats @sonaida.bsky.social, @tomdelmont.bsky.social, Ulysse Guyet & Eugene Koonin. @pasteur.fr www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Large eukaryotic DNA viruses encode ESCRT machinery for membrane remodelling - Nature Microbiology

A genomic screen reveals homologues of ESCRT components in mirusviruses that infect unicellular aquatic eukaryotes.

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🦠 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀, 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 Last spring, two viral emergencies struck simultaneously: Andes Hantavirus and Ebola Bundibugyo. Same timeline, yet radically different outcomes. 🎥 To learn more about these viruses, check out our webinar replays : www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 29/07/2026

🏆 Congrats to Valentina Venzin, first French researcher to win the prestigious Branco Weiss Fellowship 2026! (8 selected from 609 candidates) 🎉 She's investigating why men & women have different immune responses, unlocking precision medicine tailored to biological sex. @valentinavenzin.bsky.social

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 28/07/2026

Chloé Baum @chloebaum.bsky.social leads the wet-lab team at Institut Pasteur's Biomics. With the PromethION 2 Integrated, she sequences full-length dengue & chikungunya genomes in a single read and runs 96 bacterial genomes per flow cell. #Genomics Interview ↘️ nanoporetech.com/blog/advanci...

Inside the Biomics technology platform with Chloé Baum. Bacterial genome sequencing using Oxford Nanopore technology.
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Medicine at Cambridge @medcambridge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Upcoming seminar: 🎓Dr Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social, Head of Molecular Diversity Unit, Pasteur Institute @pasteur.fr 📢‘What bacteria teach us about immunity’ 📅4-5 PM, Thu 6 August 📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social #CITIID

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Philippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There is more than cilia beating in the establishment of left-right symmetry! Proud to have contributed to this beautiful study by Amaia Ochandorena Saa @meilhacsigolene.bsky.social where Thierry Blisnick imaged mouse node by SEM doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx6486 @pasteur.fr @institutimagine.bsky.social

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 24/07/2026

Institut Pasteur researchers developed "optonanobody": a light-controlled nanobody targeting α7 nicotinic receptors. Switch receptors on/off with light, no genetic editing needed. New research tool for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's & schizophrenia. #Neuroscience ↘️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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An Optonanobody for Reversible Photoactivation of Recombinant and Native α7 Nicotinic Receptors

Photopharmacology, which enables the precise optical control of endogenous receptor activity, represents a powerful approach in neuroscience. However, photochromic diffusible ligands often exhibit lim...

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Timothée Bruel @timotheebruel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🔬 New paper in Science Translational Medicine! @science.org The complement system boosts antibody neutralization of SARS-CoV-2, especially vs immune-evasive variants. Anti-S2 antibodies + complement = better survival in severe COVID-19. 🦠🛡️ www.science.org/doi/full/10.... @martin-jg.bsky.social

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Complement augments antibody neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants

Complement C1q and C3 potentiate neutralization activity of anti-S2 antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants via the Fc region.

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hollensteinlab.bsky.social @hollensteinlab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Very happy to share a preprint on our contribution to identifying a polymerase capable of accepting heavily modified nucleotides. Great collaboration with Marc Delarue and John Chaput. Congrats to Maria! @pasteur.fr @ipdbsc.bsky.social @chem4life.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Polymerase Evolution Enables Access to Glycosylated Xeno-Nucleic Acids with Expanded Chemical Functionality

Chemical modifications expand the functional repertoire of nucleic acids, but the extent to which complex glycans can be integrated into genetic polymers remains largely unexplored. Glycosylated nucle...

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Antigen Evolution & Design Lab @antigenevo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🚨 JOB ALERT🚨 We are very excited to be hiring the lab's ✨very first postdoc✨! Work on new AI technologies for decoding antigen protein evolution in a fresh research environment, at the heart of Paris 🇫🇷 Details & link to apply: research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd... Deadline: Sep 1st

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 22/07/2026

Quantifying how multiple transmission routes contribute to the spread of HTLV-1 in different endemic foci: a mathematical modelling study @scauchemez.bsky.social ↘️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Credit © Institut Pasteur/A-M. Pais-Correia, M-I. Thoulouze et A. Alcover, unité de Biologie Cellulaire des Lymphocytes - S. Guadagnini, Plate-forme de microscopie ultrastructurale - A. Gessain, unité d'Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes.

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Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Out @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social, natural products meet bacterial immunity! We used genomics to identify lanthivirins: a family of >2,000 lanthipeptide BGCs that protect Actinobacteria against phages. Led by @hshomar.bsky.social & @mariegllm.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A family of lanthipeptides with anti-phage function

Bacteria produce natural products to adapt to their environments, with phage interactions as major ecological and evolutionary drivers. While some nat…

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 21/07/2026

L'Institut Pasteur et l'IRD ont signé ce mardi un nouvel accord-cadre de 5 ans, troisième génération depuis 2010. Priorité commune : les maladies vectorielles et zoonotiques, du laboratoire au terrain, face aux changements climatiques. 🤝 @ird-fr.bsky.social

Yasmine Belkaid, directrice générale de l'Institut Pasteur, et Valérie Verdier, présidente-directrice générale de l'IRD, signent l'accord-cadre de partenariat entre les deux institutions, le 21 juillet 2026 à l'Institut Pasteur.
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FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

How do commensal bacteria protect against pathogens? @jmghigolab.bsky.social lab identified CSAP-1, a pore-forming protein that mediates bacterial competition and enhances infected zebrafish survival —a promising lead for aquaculture antimicrobial strategies. 👉️ buff.ly/HSn0tLP @pasteur.fr

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 20/07/2026

The brain's immune sentinels (microglia) & its protective walls (blood-brain barrier) build each other during embryogenesis. Morgane Thion's @morganethion.bsky.social G5 investigates this critical crosstalk and its role in neurological vulnerabilities. ➡️ www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

𝗟𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲́𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀 ! 𝗠𝗢𝗢𝗖 « 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗘́𝗽𝗶𝗱𝗲́𝗺𝗶𝗲𝘀 » 👉 Inscrivez-vous sur FUN MOOC : www.fun-mooc.fr/fr/cours/sci... 💬 Cours en français avec sous-titres (français/anglais) 📆 Accès au cours à partir du 1er septembre 2026

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 16/07/2026

How do cells "hibernate"? Deep-sea archaea (100°C, 40 MPa) hold the answer. Scientists identified a protein controlling ribosome dormancy, also found in human gut archaea. Nature Communications #Archaea ↘️ www.pasteur.fr/en/press-are...

Hydrothermal vents at the Rainbow site – © CC-BY Ifremer

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Neurospeech Team @neurospeech.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Institut reConnect (aka Hearing Institute) at @pasteur.fr, is launching a call for applications to establish a new research group in Ear Therapy. The first stage of the process is the submission of an Expression of Interest (see details below).

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Creation of a new research group – UMR Institut Pasteur/Inserm/CNRS at the Hearing Institute, Institut Pasteur, Paris - Research

Converting advances in auditory neuroscience into innovative inner ear therapies for deafness  Major advances in the field of auditory research - particularly the development of its molecular dimensi...

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