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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur

@phagepasteur.bsky.social
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Our team is studying bacteriophages that are viruses infecting bacteria. Since 2006, Laurent Debarbieux has reignited a research lab about phage therapy following the pionnering work of Félix d'Herelle started in early 20th century.

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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We believe this face will be familiar to the #phage community in here The BBH lab is quite pleased to be hosting Jeremy Barr (@jeremyjbarr.bsky.social), from Monash University, for the upcoming months. We were off to a good start with his presentation on gut #microbiome last week @pasteur.fr
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bet that when you woke up this morning you thought "you know what would be nice? A review of #microbiome research performed with #OMM12 mice" 🐀 Well, have we got some good news for you The latest paper from the BBH lab was published TODAY 🚨 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The OMM12 mice: a decade of dissecting host-microbiome interactions
Humans and their associated microbes form a multifaceted ecosystem. Gaining mechanistic insight into this system necessitates reductionist models integrating ecological and immunological dimensions...
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Benoit Pons @benoitjpons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🧬Phages in Toulouse — November 18–20, 2026! 🦠 We are delighted to announce the next edition of Phages.fr congress, Phages in Toulouse, bringing together the phage research community for 3 days of talks, presentations & scientific discussions! 📍 Toulouse, France 📅 Nov. 18–20
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Réseau Bactériophage France
Bienvenue sur le site du réseau “Phages.fr” Le réseau “Phages.fr” regroupe des scientifiques qui travaillent sur les thématiques incluant les bactériophages dont l’étude des structures, interactions moléculaires & cellulaires, écologie & évolution, thérapie phagique et biocontrôle en santé humaine, végétale & animale et industrie ainsi que des Sciences humaines et sociales. Ces scientifiques appartiennent à différents instituts publics français de recherche tels que CNRS (principal financeur), INRAE, INSERM, ANSES, Institut Pasteur mais aussi de nombreuses universités (Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Paris, etc) et hôpitaux, avec aussi la participation de membres d’entreprises.
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
2026 seemed to be the summer of #phage in the press 🎥 and we've been happy to participate This is a good way to get the message out there about phage #therapy and we're definitely noticing increased interest The Boss is scheduled for a couple more of these interviews. We'll keep you posted 😎
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We'll be participating in this online course from @pasteuredu.bsky.social and so should you!! Enrollment is now open and the format provides several advantages in terms of language and timing Take a look at the program and join us to learn more about how #phage can be used against #AMR
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New lab member at the BBH!! 🚨 Niamh Diver-Hall from the @uofgsii.bsky.social is joining our #gut team for the next year, as part of her Master's degree Her work will center in #phage defense and antidefense systems in gut bacteria 🦠 Welcome!!
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Boss was invited to participate in the #ERSCongress2026 🫁 congress this week in Barcelona He got to advocate for #phage therapy in front of a pretty sizeable crowd during the "Beyond antibiotics" session Thanks for the invite!! @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Well, we did it, folks! The BBH lab has a GitHub account 💻 We've been enjoying diving more into #Bioinformatics as of late and have decided to start sharing some of our tools through here, give us a follow! github.com/BBHphagelab
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BBHphagelab - Overview
Bacterium Phage Host lab. BBHphagelab has 4 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thanks to the folks at KU Leuven, particularly @hannelorelongin.bsky.social , for welcoming @moreautanais.bsky.social , one of our PhD candidates, this week! Tanaïs was happy to discuss all things "phageFACTor" but there was also time to enjoy some local views ...... and delicacies 🍟🍪
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
THAT'S A WRAP ON #VoM2026 FOR THE BBH LAB !!! We had a blast sharing all things #phage with all the teams present A HUGE congrats to the organizing committee for their amazing work all these days, they really knocked it out of the park #phagesky
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Viruses of Microbes conference is coming back to France!!! 🇫🇷 We're also happy to share that The Boss will be part of the organizing committee, led by the great team of Fréderic Laurent See you in Lyon in 2028!!
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Well, the audience responded with something else, as well Alejandro's presentation was awarded the Intralytix award for "Best oral presentation" in the phage therapy category 🥳 A nice capper, recognizing the work of the BBH lab at #VoM2026
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Perhaps also some representatives from the 2028 meeting in this photo? 👀👀👀
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We were very happy to show some of our Immunophage synergy work at #VoM2026 during the Phage therapy session Our Postdoc @bohorquezalejo.bsky.social was able to summarize our work on this area and the audience responded with multiple, insightful questions
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Getting an early start for today's poster session at #VoM2026 First up, we have poster 17 by @ltanoeiro.bsky.social If you're interested in prophages or Campylobacter, you should come talk to him
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you happen to be at #VoM2026 the BBH lab has content for you on EVERY poster session 😎 On Tuesday, you can come by board 225 to check out Solène's work on tail fiber replacement See you at 2:30!!
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The BBH is ready for #VoM2026 !!!! 🦠 We've been roaming the sites and taking in beautiful Prague The conference is off to a very good start with today's lectures + welcome reception We'll try to keep you updated on the proceedings
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We’re happy to introduce phageFACTor (Functional Annotation and Curation Tool) 👩‍💻Developed by Tanaïs Moreau, our most recent PhD candidate, and building on Phold, we were able to improve annotation of prophage genes by as much as 50% 🧬 You should check it out github.com/TMs-code/pha...
In this example, we're showing the improvement in the percentage of annotated genes from prophage "Maintenon" from Clostridium innocuum (doi: 10.1186/s40168-023-01541-x) using the phageFACTor pipeline
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Filipa Vale (IMED) and Alexander Harms (@ethz.ch) came by last week and we had some great discussions on all things #prophage and #phage It's not every week you have not one but TWO great scientists visiting you, so we had to celebrate with a nice apéro Hope to have you guys here more often!!
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We took a road trip yesterday to @inrae-france.bsky.social and had a pretty fun time sharing with our collaborators over there Despite having worked together for a while, some of us couldn't put faces to names over there, so it was a great opportunity to share with them Thanks for hosting us!
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Once again, sharing part of the discussion that we had at the BBH about an interesting paper This time, it was this work performed at US San Diego about antibiotic/phage interaction in a single patient If you're interested, we've got a thread for you!! 🧵 #Phage #Phagesky
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This new paper by the folks over at UC San diego caught our eye, so we thought we'd give our two cents on it. As we've been doing in previous posts: 📝Premise ✅What we liked ❓Questions it raised for us www.nature.com/articles/s41... All images are taken from the original paper
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Ecological partitioning enables phage–antibiotic cooperation in a human Pseudomonas infection - Nature Communications
This case report presents a multi-omics case analysis of intravenous phage-antibiotic co-therapy in a patient with cystic fibrosis during an acute-on-chronic pulmonary exacerbation caused by multidrug...
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#OTD in #Phage history: In 1873, the phage therapy pioneer Félix d’Hérelle was born!!! His amazing work at @pasteur.fr and other institutions laid the foundation in which groups like the BBH were founded You can read more about his fascinating life story here www.pasteur.fr/en/institut-...
F´elix d’H´erelle, 1873–1949. Contributor: HistoricImages / Alamy Stock Photo
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Another week, another paper that we liked so much, we made a brief comment on You should take a look! It's only a short thread 🧵 #Phage #Phagesky
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We recently came across this study (published on @elife.bsky.social ) and it caught our eye, so we decided to make a brief #phagesky comment on it 📝Premise ✅What we liked ❓Questions it raised for us elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... All images are taken from the paper
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We recently had a nice lab discussion about this work and wanted to share some of it on a short thread here 🧵 BTW, word on the street is that prophages are pretty cool 😎 #Phage #Phagesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature
Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
From time to time, we like to comment on recent papers that catch our attention We found this one from Dahlman et al., @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social lab, very interesting indeed www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📝- Premise ✅- What we liked ❓- Questions and prospective (Images are taken from the paper)
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Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature
Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The BBH lab has a new Doctor!!🚨🚨 Caroline Henrot, a member of our lab since 2022, defended her thesis last friday @pasteur.fr This work focused on the induction of prophages, and other bacterial interactions, in the gut microbiota. It was performed in collaboration with @inrae-france.bsky.social
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We have a new lab member at the BBH! Meet Brice Gastineau, a Master 2 student who'll be joining us for the next 7 months. He'll be working with our Lung team 🫁, particularly with the lung-on-chip model Welcome to the lab!
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Today was Microbiology PhDay at @pasteur.fr where we highlighted the work of two of our PhD candidates Solène Ecomard and Ngoc-Minh-Chau Nguyen participated with their posters on Tail fiber and Lung-on-chip, showing some of the good work performed by them at the BBH 👏
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
First post of 2026 for the BBH and it's a good one. This week, one of our PhD candidates, Caroline Henrot, took a big step in her journey by submitting her thesis document 🎉 Stay tuned for more news on her and her work, performed in collaboration with @inrae-france.bsky.social, throughout the year!
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
🚨New paper alert🚨 We were very pleased to see the publication of this work, product of our collaboration with the fine folks at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social and @tum.de That's a wrap on 2025 from the BBH lab!!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Last friday one of our lab's Postdocs, Nandita Sharma, presented her "Work in progress" talk at @pasteur.fr Her results deal with the role of bacterial competition in the microbiota and the factors at play determining its outcome. Really cool stuff that we'll be sharing in the near future
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
THIS WAS GREAT FUN!! The team was watching last night and we really enjoyed getting to be a part of it Thanks to the production team for highlighting the BBH lab work, among other @pasteur.fr groups If you missed it last night, no worries, you can check it out here www.france.tv/documentaire...
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Traquer l'invisible - Nos chercheurs face à la menace mondiale des virus et des bactéries - Documentaire en replay
Les microbes tuent chaque année 14 millions de personnes dans le monde. Comment empêcher ces tueurs en série d'agir, et avec quelles armes ? Marina Carrère d...
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We mentioned this a while back, so we thought we'd show you another photo from that day, taken from a different angle 😎 This documentary, featuring the boss, will premiere TONIGHT!!! at 21h in France 5 www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-p... www.francetelevisions.fr/et-vous/notr...
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We were at the "Phages in Nancy" meeting last week and had a very fun time! You can read all about it on this tread 🧵 #phagesky
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We were glad to take part in the "Phages in Nancy" meeting last week, organized by site.phages.fr and hosted by Xavier Bellanger We'll share some of the highlights in this thread 🧵
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
TL,DR We had a good time visiting some of our Portuguese colleagues this week, where we talked #phage and ran into some old and new faces Our visit had it all: good science, good food and even an unexpected seismic drill You can read all about it on this thread 🧵
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Last week, part of our team was busy at Bioisi (U. of Lisbon @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social ), talking all things #phage and #prophage with our collaborator Filipa Vale
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🔵⚪🔴 - Dans le cadre du groupe de travail ApprentiPhages (réseau Phages.fr), nous avons le plaisir de partager quelques vidéos pédagogiques sur nos virus favoris : www.canal-u.tv/chaines/phag... D'autres thématiques phago-centrées à venir !
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
As part of the ApprentiPhages working group (Phages.fr network), we are pleased to share some educational videos about our favorite viruses: www.canal-u.tv/chaines/phag... More phage-related topics coming soon! Note: the videos are in French!”
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
TL;DR We had Microbiology department meeting this week @pasteur.fr ! Two full days of scientific discussion. If you wanna know what we talked about during those days, you can find it on this thread 🧵
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We had a blast at the Microbiology department days @pasteur.fr where we got to learn what other people in our department are working on 🤓 The group also got to show some of our work to the whole department ✌️
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This week we're saying "bon voyage" to one of our PhD students (Quentin), who'll be leaving us for a few months, and an M2 student (Laura), who's finishing her internship Good excuse to spend some quality time with the whole team outside the lab 😎 Thanks for the hard work!! You'll be missed
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
We saw this doing the rounds and we thought we'd share with you some of our thoughts and questions on it, since it's likely to be a highly impactful (and cool) work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 📝-Premise ✅-Pros 🚫-Cons ❓-Questions
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Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models
Many important biological functions arise not from single genes, but from complex interactions encoded by entire genomes. Genome language models have emerged as a promising strategy for designing biol...
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🔵⚪🔴 Nous avons eu quelques visites intéressantes aujourd'hui au labo BBH 🎥 Le chef a fait du bon travail ; il paraît qu'il sera sélectionné pour le prochain projet Spielberg 😎 J'ai hâte de partager plus d'informations avec vous prochainement
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
ENG - We had a couple on interesting visits today at the BBH lab 🎥 The boss did a pretty good job, word on the street is he'll be in line for the next Spielberg project 😎 Looking forward to share more with you in the near future
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔵⚪🔴 - C'est la "Postdoc appreciation week"(PAW !!!) à @pasteur.fr 🥳 Nous avons actuellement deux postdoctorants au BBH lab : Nandita et Alejandro. Ils travaillent en tandem avec des candidats au PhD et des étudiants en master tout en se préparant à la prochaine étape de leur carrière
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
ENG - It's Postdoc appreciation week (PAW!!!) at @pasteur.fr 🥳 Currently, we have 2 postdocs at the BBH lab, Nandita and Alejandro As early career researchers, they work in tandem with PhD candidates and master students while preparing for the next stage in their careers
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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
ENG - It's shaping up to be a busy week at the BBH lab! We're not sure if the boss ordered enough plates, though 🤔 Good Monday, everyone!!
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