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Christophe Zimmer

@chzimmer.bsky.social
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Computational biophysicist @ University of Würzburg (Germany) and @ Institut Pasteur (France). Machine Biophotonics Lab (Würzburg). Imaging and Modeling Unit (Paris). Translational imaging, deep learning for biology, drug discovery. ** hiring postdocs **

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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can you tell how an antibiotic kills bacteria just by watching them under a regular microscope — without any dyes ? Yes, it turns out, at least if you are a deep neural net.
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Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI) @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🚨 We're recruiting! The HZI is offering 16 fully funded PhD positions to tackle pressing challenges in infection research — from basic science to translational innovation. 📍 Braunschweig, Würzburg, Hannover or Saarbrücken 📅 Apply by September 11 Learn more: jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...
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Structural Biology and Chemistry Dpt - Institut Pasteur @ipdbsc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Job Opportunity: #CNRS Chemistry - #InstitutPasteur Mid-Career Group Leader (Chemistry for Health) is open in Paris, France. This is a fantastic opportunity for a standout chemist to establish themselves in a world-class environment. research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...
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Mid-career Group Leader position in Chemistry for Health at Institut Pasteur, Paris - Research
Institut Pasteur and the CNRS are launching a joint call for a mid-career group leader position in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemistry for Health. We are looking for an experienced researcher (typically...
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If current trajectories of AI development continue, it is highly plausible that AI will drastically transform our economies. We must make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/wemusta...
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We Must Act Now
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NUCLEATE Cluster @nucleate-cluster.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The NUCLEATE Cluster of Excellence is hiring! Shape the future of nucleic acid sciences 🧬 🚀 Group Leaders: All 3 locations (LMU, TUM, JMU Würzburg) 🔬 PhDs & Postdocs: Open call in Würzburg and speculative applications welcome! Deadline: Aug 16, 2026 👉 More info: nucleate-cluster.de/careers/
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Open postdoc position in the Imaging and Modeling Unit at Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Mickaël Cohen of IBPC (Paris, France). High-throughput imaging and deep learning to analyze mitochondrial morphology and understand genetic bases of cellular respiration. Please spread the word.
postdoc position at Institut Pasteur and IBPC to work on mitochondrial morphology using advanced imaging and deep learning
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
If leading AI companies are indeed approaching the point of recursive self-improvement, a coordinated, verifiable, and universally applied pause is probably the only responsible solution to mitigate several major AI risks; at least until safety guarantees are developed and demonstrated. (1/2)
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
One week left to apply. Help us find new antimicrobials and understand the inner workings of bacteria – as a technical assistant in the Machine Biophotonics and Nanoscale Bacteriology labs at the Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum, University of Würzburg – See details below (in German). Please spread the word.
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Stellenangebote - Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum - Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging
Aktuelle Stellenanzeigen des Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrums / Current positions of the Rudolf Virchow Center
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 08/12/2025
🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research
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Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research
The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We have an open call for a group leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging in Würzburg, Germany. Generous starting package, vibrant and highly interdisciplinary biomedical research environment. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please spread the word.
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Group Leader (f/m/d) at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with University of Würzburg - Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative a...
The Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging (RVZ) ist now inviting applications for the position of Group Leader (f/m/d).
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Recently out: “Uniform dynamics of cohesin-mediated loop extrusion in living human cells”. In this study led by brilliant former PhD student Thomas Sabaté we use live cell microscopy and polymer simulations to characterize how DNA loops and TADs form in human cells by cohesin-driven extrusion. (1/4)
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We have an open call for a group leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging in Würzburg, Germany. Generous starting package, vibrant and highly interdisciplinary biomedical research environment. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please spread the word.
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Group Leader (f/m/d) at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with University of Würzburg - Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative a...
The Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging (RVZ) ist now inviting applications for the position of Group Leader (f/m/d).
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Daniel Krentzel @danielkrentzel.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
If you're interested in developing an open-source image analysis platform/plugin to profile bacteria with deep learning while living in the beautiful city of Paris 🇫🇷, check out this job ad from the @chzimmer.bsky.social lab @pasteur.fr research.pasteur.fr/fr/job/open-...
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Open-Source Developer for Deep Learning Antibiotic Discovery Platform - Research
Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most urgent global health threats projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050. The AI4AMR project brings together teams from I...
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Alessandro Torri @alessandrotorri.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We are hiring a postdoc to build open-source tools for deep learning–based antibiotic discovery in @chzimmer.bsky.social lab at Institut Pasteur. Part of the AI4AMR consortium with HZI and University of Würzburg. Details: research.pasteur.fr/fr/job/open-...
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Open-Source Developer for Deep Learning Antibiotic Discovery Platform - Research
Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most urgent global health threats projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050. The AI4AMR project brings together teams from I...
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Europe has a chance to shape a safer and more values-aligned future for AI innovation, and needs to. This was my main message at the AI in Science Summit in Copenhagen today. I also presented Scientist AI, LawZero's approach to create technical guardrails and help accelerate scientific discovery.
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Jörg Vogel @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
** Now seeking postdocs ** Join our interdisciplinary and transnational team in Würzburg (Germany) or Paris (France) to drive projects in translational biology and antibiotic drug discovery. Backgrounds in computational biology, AI, physics, or microbiology are all welcome. Please spread the word.
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
great collaboration with the team of Arnaud Fontanet and Laurent Coudeville, spearheaded by Gaston Bizel-Bizellot, Simon Galmiche and Benoît Lelandais, with help from Tiffany Charmet and enabled by a grant from Sanofi. #llm #nlp #epidemiology #covid-19 @pasteur.fr ‬@uni-wuerzburg.de 3/3
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
We took advantage of an online survey conducted during the Covid-19 crisis (ComCor), which yielded a data set of millions of words, with ground-truth labels for each individual. We propose that like-minded methods may speed up our understanding of future pandemics and public health responses. 2/n
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Finally out, our paper on natural language processing for epidemiology: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We show how large language models can help determine circumstances of pathogen transmission by extracting epidemiologically relevant information from free text. 1/n
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025
Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
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Daniel Krentzel @danielkrentzel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
First preprint from my PhD is now online! We show that deep learning can recognise modes of action of antibiotics directly from brightfield images of bacteria. 🦠
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Please spread the word or apply with a motivation letter, CV and the contact details of three references. You can also approach us in person at the “AI in Drug Discovery and Biomedicine” in Barcelona until tomorrow.
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We are now looking for postdocs or PhD students with expertise in : - metabolomics (Boneca team) - chemical biology and medicinal chemistry (Brönstrup team) - computational biology, AI, physics or related fields (Zimmer team).
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
AI4AMR is a collaboration between the labs of Ivo Boneca (microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris), Mark Brönstrup (chemistry, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig) & Christophe Zimmer (computational biology, Univ. of Würzburg and Institut Pasteur).
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Christophe Zimmer @chzimmer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Building an AI pipeline to accelerate antibiotic drug discovery (before the Sagrada Familia is completed) Today is the official start of our ERC Synergy project (AI4AMR) on building an AI-based pipeline to help find new antibiotics against drug-resistant bacteria.
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 14/02/2025
🌟 Join Institut Pasteur as a Junior Research Group Leader 🌟 Explore host-microbe interactions in key areas like vaccinology, infectious diseases, neuro-immunology, and maternal health. 📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 (few weeks left!) Apply now ⬇️
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Call for applications 2025 - Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Research
The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tis...
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 16/01/2025
The Institut Pasteur has decided to leave X (formerly Twitter) to join BlueSky! 🦋 The Institut Pasteur made this decision due to several serious issues observed on the X platform since its acquisition. Join us here to continue advocating for science. www.pasteur.fr/en/home/pres...
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Institut Pasteur decides to leave X
The Institut Pasteur, a research organization which for more than 130 years has been committed to tackling infectious diseases, sharing knowledge and defending science, has decided to leave X because ...
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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · 10/01/2025
Delighted to launch our activities on Bluesky with this great news: Our researchers @sauer-lab.bsky.social show in @science.org, how therapeutic #antibodies interact with B cells – thanks to an innovative method of super-resolution microscopy. Congratulations! ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
Mode of action of the new microscopy method LLS-TDI-DNA-PAINT. On the top right, the RTX antibody was visualised on a Raij-B cell: it is easy to see how it links the CD20 molecules in the membrane. Bottom right: the hedgehog-shaped appearance of a living Raji B cell after the antibody has bound. The surface protein CD45, which is homogeneously distributed on the cell surface, is also labelled in green. (Image: Arindam Ghosh / University of Würzburg)
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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · 10/01/2025
Sometimes the grass is indeed greener – and the sky is blue! We are ending activities on X and joining bluesky. ➡️https://go.uniwue.de/exit ➡️https://idw-online.de/de/news845520
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Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Very glad to see our story on the choreography of #ESCRT proteins in #archaeal cell division finally published in mBio - Junfeng Liu et al "A relay race of ESCRT-III paralogs drives cell division in a hyperthermophilic archaeon" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Didier Mazel @amazeld.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
We are opening a call for applications 2025 – Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur in Paris @pasteur.fr all details on our web site : research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...
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Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur
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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🔊 Exciting AI Research Opportunity! my team at @czbiohub SF is hiring a Research Scientist to develop foundational AI models for BioImage analysis. Join us to work on cutting-edge ML/CV! 💻🔬🧪🧠 #AIJobs #ML job-boards.greenhouse.io/chanzuckerbe...
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Laura Cantini @cantinilab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We' re #hiring a #postdoc in my team at @pasteur.fr and @cnrs.bsky.social funded by Institut PRAIRIE to work on the inference of molecular mechanisms from the integration of spatial transcriptomics and #singlecell multi-omics data. Learn more at emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Post-doctorat (H/F) en développement de méthodes d'apprentissage automatique pour les données omiques unicellulaires
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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏 🦠🧪🧫🧬
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Darragh Duffy @darraghduffy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Unique opportunity to become Scientific Director @institutpasteur.bsky.social 🧪🎓🔬🥼 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/insti... #academicsky #job #science
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The Institut Pasteur is looking for a Scientific Director | Research - Institut Pasteur
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 18/11/2024
A Perspective in Nature suggests that the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement may not be met if passive CO2 uptake is counted as a removal when calculating total anthropogenic emissions. go.nature.com/40UDgYw 🧪
This is figure 2, which shows the fluxes of CO2 into and out of the atmosphere under different interpretations of net zero.
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