📢 Save the Date! The 2nd Nanopore Users Day will take place 🗓️10 March 2026 at the Duclaux Amphitheater, Institut Pasteur (Paris). This edition will be open to external participants! 👉 More details and registration info coming soon! @chloebaum.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @nanoporetech.com

🇪🇺 Major recognition for Institut Pasteur Our National Reference Center for Respiratory Viruses (led by Pr Marie-Anne Rameix-Welti) selected as EU Reference Laboratory by @ecdc.europa.eu 🔬 Part of an 8-country consortium to strengthen EU's capacity against respiratory viral pathogens. #PublicHealth

Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/... I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and

Almost there! Starting tomorrow morning (Paris time), the webinar on Bacterial strain Taxonomy for Genomic Surveillance organized within the ECDC sponsored GenEpi-BioTrain programme; registration is free; see more here: research.pasteur.fr/en/event/bac...

Recours de Marine Le Pen rejeté. Sa tentative pour revenir sur l'exécution immédiate de sa peine d'inéligibilité de 5 ans a échoué. L'état de droit, c'est ça.

🔥📣 BREAKING NEWS Didier Raoult perd en @conseil-etat.fr (poursuites dont je suis à l'origine via rédaction de la plainte, ce qui m'a immédiatement valu une avalanche de menaces de mort et appels au meurtre, qu'il a partagés, et qui durent encore). Didier Raoult est définitivement condamné. RT SVP🔽

🚨 1 week left to apply for the Pasteur-Paris University International PhD Program (PPU)! Join an international community of scientists at the Institut Pasteur 🌍 Dedicated support, mentorship & world-class labs included. 📅Deadline: Oct 20, 2025 🎓Program start: October 2026 👉 Apply: bit.ly/CallPPU

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance" Stay tuned for more. #NobelPrize

Taxonomy matters and if we call the same strain different names in different countries, we quickly run into problems not knowing what’s happening around us. @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social is defining the main requirements and offers a solution using cgMLST and LIN codes.

A nice illustration of the usefulness of our tool #MSTclust for handling bacterial population structures by @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social during #IMMEMXIV in Porto 🇵🇹 gitlab.pasteur.fr/GIPhy/MSTclust

Thrilled to share this preprint on Klebsiella pneumoniae plasmids in a One Health setting 🦠 Fantastic work by @twinkler.bsky.social! 🎉 @irenlohr.bsky.social @margaretlam.bsky.social

La #bronchiolite, c’est 480 000 bébés touchés chaque année en #France Les #femmesenceintes (entre 32-36 semaines, de septembre à janvier) peuvent se faire #vacciner contre le VRS ✅ Un #vaccin pendant la #grossesse = protection pour votre #bébé ! 📢RT pour sensibiliser

Opinion: I’m a former CDC director. I’m deeply concerned about the future of vaccines in the U.S. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/r...

C’est tout frais : tourner sur le boulevard des Invalides devient enfin possible à vélo grâce à ce carrefour néerlandais parisien. La vidéo montre que les usagers sont surpris par la nouvelle situation ; tout le monde fait « n’importe quoi ». #carrefourneerlandais

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Reminder that we are recruiting an Assistant Professor Bacterial Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a... Deadline 24 Sept.

Delighted to share our recently published work! Ever wondered how Klebsiella (and others) deals with capsule production’s costs ? The paper: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Thread👇

Restreindre les soins aux sans papiers est un choix politique : envoyer des signaux au RN et à LR. Et ce choix est largement contraire à la santé publique, c’est amplement démontré. Honte au « centriste » François Bayrou qui a perdu ses valeurs.

L’AME représente 0,5% des dépenses de santé. Honte à ceux qui veulent faire croire que les français seront mieux soignés si on complique la vie de quelques milliers de personnes sans papiers. Une politique basée sur le mensonge.. 1/2 www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III. Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

The Pasteur Institute of Madagascar (IPM) (www.pasteur.mg) is recruiting its future director. The IPM is a member of the international network of Pasteur Institutes, the “Pasteur Network.” Deadline September 15th. emplois.diplomatie.gouv.fr/nos-offres/e... Contact: [email protected]

RFK Jr and MAHA: dangerous, emboldened, and escalating - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#IMMEMXIV starts in one month in Porto 🇵🇹 @escmid.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing many colleagues and friends at this novel edition of IMMEM, meetings that shape the field of molecular epidemiology and pathogen genomic evolution- don’t hesitate to register!

I hope all my fellow #shigellaphiles have 20 - 24 April 2026 blocked out in their diaries for @shigellameeting.bsky.social next year in Paris! In the meantime, check out (and join) our starter pack to start community building now 🧫

🔴 Coup de tonnerre : le Conseil constitutionnel censure la réintroduction de l'#acétamipride : "Le législateur a privé de garanties légales le droit de vivre dans un environnement équilibré et respectueux de la santé garanti par l’article 1er de la Charte de l’environnement."

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

Apply today for the ESCMID Young Investigator Award. ✨This award recognises excellence in research and fosters further work at a top scientific level in CM/ID. The prestigious prize will support your career development. 🎓 Learn more: www.escmid.org/scien... #IDSky #clinmicro #MedSky

Pleased to say that our preprint benchmarking Nanopore data for MLST, cgMLST, cgSNP & AMR typing from bacterial isolates is out! TL;DR you can get almost perfect results from 50x depth using live SUP basecalling with a GPU in under 20 hours #microsky#IDsky 🦠🧬🖥️ /1 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper alert! A real time PCR assay to detect and distinguish Klebsiella pneumonia, quasipneumoniae and variicola. @microbiologysociety.org @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Register today for IMMEM XIV! Session topics range from what's new in bioinformatics & how genomics inform resistance profiling to pathogen surveillance in a One Health framework & wastewater surveillance. Register: ow.ly/gjOZ50WpOXX Programme: ow.ly/Whj850WpOXY #IDSky #clinmicro

Check out "Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?"- CCDD Director, @mlipsitch.bsky.social's conversation with Sam Harris, host of the Making Sense podcast. www.samharris.org/podcasts/mak...

AlienTrimmer: 🆕 version 3.0 available @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social @pasteur.fr ☑️ now able to clip low-residue content regions ☑️ deal with Phred scores up to 95 ☑️ still one of the fastest #FASTQ clipping/trimming tool gitlab.pasteur.fr/GIPhy/AlienTrimmer research.pasteur.fr/en/software/alientrimmer

Rougeole, poliomyélite, coqueluche, diphtérie… Autant de maladies très communes au XXe siècle... mais qui n'ont pas disparu : "C’est bien parce que certains ont oublié le passé qu’ils croient pouvoir tenir des discours antivax." ⤵️ @leparisien.fr 1/9 www.leparisien.fr/so...

Don't miss the chance to be a part of this exciting conference on microbial typing & genomics #IMMEMXIV. The theme this year is Microbial typing: from fundamental to daily microbiology. @escmid.bsky.social @esgem-sg.bsky.social Register today and see you in Porto! www.escmid.org/congress-eve...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMH1... I am very thankful to the @ec.europa.eu for highlighting my research at @institutpasteur.bsky.social . It is a privilege for me to have the opportunity of developing my professional life here.

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

#JustPublished: Our risk assessment highlights how ongoing circulation of #diphtheria may affect some populations who are more vulnerable to infection. It also recommends tailored public health response measures to protect those most at risk. Learn more: www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

Par le passé, RFK Jr a déjà cherché à internationaliser son plaidoyer anti-vaccin. En 2021, il a animé un webinaire sur l'importance de développer un "mouvement international" pour Children's Health Defense, l'organisation antivax qu'il a cofondée. 👇 2/2 www.theatlantic.com/...

First paper on our projects on #Klebsiella transmission in the hospital environment; I'm so lucky to get to work with the wonderful teams@ Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Program, Kamuzu University, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital🇲🇼 #MicroSky #IDSky #GlobalHealth 🧬💻🧪 (1/3) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out of China? Macrolide-resistant #pertussis in France in 2024: Our epi-genomic study suggesting this scenario is out today in @cmijournal.bsky.social thanks to all colleagues, not least @noemielefrancq.bsky.social #EURLdiphtheriaPertussis ‬https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.06.025

ESCMID recognises excellence & outstanding contributions made in the fields of CM & ID: 🏅Excellence in Science 🏅Lifetime Achievement 🏅Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Infection Learn more about the awards and nominate your colleagues today! ow.ly/r9N350W5i37 #IDSky #clinmicro

Le comité SAGO de l'OMS a publié un rapport de 78 pages sur l'origine de la pandémie de Covid-19. Il y a déjà beaucoup d'approximations et même de désinformation dessus. Pour un résumé honnête et instructif, lisez la référence journalistique sur le sujet, Jon Cohen dans Science

Nouveau Cours Pasteur - Pandemics: Origins and Response 📍Institut Pasteur, Paris 📆Du 19 au 30/01/2026 🗣️En anglais ⏳Inscriptions ouvertes jusqu’au 31/10/2025 Un cours pour comprendre les facteurs d’émergence, les dynamiques de propagation, et tirer des leçons des précédentes crises sanitaires.

The New Invasion - @fgravey.bsky.social presenting the epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant bacteria in Normandy, France

the 2026 edition of this high-level , newtworking-friendly conference is coming, don’t miss the opportunity!

@kjolley.bsky.social presenting challenges of maintaining genomic epidemiology platforms for public health surveillance of pathogens @pasteur.fr #BIGSdb