🖥️ The MOOC “Medical Mycology” opens in few days!    Register now : 👉 bit.ly/medical-myco... 🍄 Welcome to the fascinating world of fungi, agents of major infectious diseases! Discover the taxonomy, ecology, identification of fungi, epidemiology of infectious diseases, drugs, link with HIV.

🍞 What you eat affects your future children's health New study by @chassainglab.bsky.social shows maternal consumption of food emulsifiers (found in processed foods & baby formula) alters offspring's gut microbiota - even if kids never consume them directly. #Microbiome

I am so proud to be part of this work, that we initiated Fernando de la Cruz and I, when he was on sabbatical in my lab in 2009... it took so much time for this achievement, 1000 thanks to Raúl Fernández-López! this brought me back to my PhD on cyanobacteria genetics. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🦠 Mycobacteria aren't just tough, they're interior designers! 🦠 Check out our latest #preprint 🚨, led by our PhD student @camimille.bsky.social , where we show that #Mycobacterium tuberculosis builds secret cytoplasmic membranes to adapt its metabolism and sneak past immunity 🤫 Thread coming soon!

‪ 2025 Tuberculosis Pasteur Course - insight from a participant🦠🌍 Alix Kevine G. T. Tchoupe, microbiology researcher from Cameroon, shares her experience: up-to-date TB research, latest diagnostics, vaccine updates, and collaboration with international peers and experts. @pasteur.fr

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Des scientifiques combinent biologie et modélisation mathématique pour révéler comment l’organe olfactif se forme chez l’embryon de poisson zèbre 🐟 ✍️ Julie Batut 📕 @cp-iscience.bsky.social | buff.ly/iO4GqPA

Nouveau Diplôme Universitaire Thérapeutiques Immunologiques Porté par @upcite.bsky.social dans le cadre de la Graduate School Innovative Therapies in Cancerology Avec l'intervention de 6 expert·e·s de l'Institut Pasteur Formation en ligne en français de octobre 2025 à avril 2026 👉 bit.ly/4ptn0Y3

🟢 The Institut Pasteur goes green for Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week! 🟢 These rare diseases affect 1 in 5,000 people. Mitochondria, the “powerhouses” of our cells, are also thought to play a role in Alzheimer's disease. Research today, cure tomorrow. 🔬 #WorldMitoWeek2025

Interested in joining @pasteur.fr Pathogen Discovery Lab for a PhD ? Check out www.pasteur.fr/en/education.... I am looking for candidates with interests in metagenomics, vector-borne emerging infectious diseases, anthropogenic effects to contribute to @prezode.bsky.social funded AMAZED Project.

A new model sheds light on the seasonal dynamics of plague in Madagascar — a step toward better prevention through a One Health approach. 🔗 Read more: www.pasteur.fr/en/research-... @scauchemez.bsky.social @abrault.bsky.social @fanohi.bsky.social

🚨 Apply now - Pandemics: Origins and Response Pasteur Course🌍🦠 This new intensive course explores pandemic origins, dynamics, prevention strategies, and lessons from past outbreaks, through a multidisciplinary approach. 👉 Learn more & apply: www.pasteur.fr/en/education... @pasteur.fr

Save the date! The @pasteur.fr Pasteur course on image analysis is announced: It will happen from the 1st of June to the 5th 2026. This year there will be only one track: the Early Career Investigator track (beginners). 👇

The new edition of our free online course on HIV Science is open for registration! Do not miss the opportunity to learn about HIV science from an amazing panel of international experts!

🌊🦠 From coral reefs to malaria parasites Sebastian Baumgarten swapped his diving gear for a computer keyboard, moving from marine biology to studying how Plasmodium adapts to climate change at the Institut Pasteur. @sebbaumgarten.bsky.social #Research #Malaria #ClimateChange

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👇

Lots of heterogeneity in capsule production in Klebsiella and Acinetobacter. Given the pleiotropic impact of capsules, this provides opportunities for multiple types of phenotypical heterogeneity. Check @julielebris.bsky.social thread on our recent publication.

New preprint in the lab! How the mitochondrial ETC works during infection of human macrophages with #Legionella or #Salmonella? Spoiler: there are some similarities and also pathogen-specific differences. Work led by Francisco Garcia and Paula Martínez, with @cbuch.bsky.social at @pasteur.fr

🔬From a bacterial toxin to new therapies in oncology and virology, watch the short story of our work on the Sec61 pathway! @demangelab.bsky.social Thanks to @institutpasteur.bsky.social , Enodia Therapeutics, Exaltia and all colleagues who made this possible! #Science #Oncology #Virology #Research

🔬 "La science n'est pas une affaire d'opinion personnelle !" Yasmine Belkaid, Directrice générale de l'Institut Pasteur, dénonce le démantèlement de la recherche US et réaffirme le rôle crucial de la science face aux défis sanitaires mondiaux. ↘️ www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats...

✨📄 What about the untapped therapeutic potential of the immune response in invasive aspergillosis ? Here’s some rational, pre-clinical and clinical evidence. Huge thanks to our amazing 🌍 team! 🔗 bit.ly/46kajHr @simonfeys.bsky.social @agocarvalho.bsky.social @martinhoenigl.bsky.social

🚨 Derniers jours pour s’inscrire ! Rôles multiples de l’ARN – Cours Pasteur🧬 Ce cours intensif de deux semaines explore en profondeur la biologie des ARN : synthèse, maturation, dégradation et régulation de l’expression génique. 👉 Inscription et plus d'information : www.pasteur.fr/fr/enseignem...

ENG- #meettheteam Did you know that there are >480 Postdocs working at @pasteur.fr ??? Today you get to meet one of them! This is Jose Alejandro Bohorquez (@bohorquezalejo.bsky.social), he's been at our lab for 6 months, studying the effect of immunity on phage therapy for lung bacterial infections

Es war uns eine große Ehre, Yasmine Belkaid, Präsidentin des @pasteur.fr, heute am HZI begrüßen zu dürfen. Vielen Dank für die wertvollen wissenschaftlichen Diskussionen und den inspirierenden Vortrag über die Immunität gegenüber der Mikrobiota und die Auswirkungen auf die Impfstoffentwicklung.

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

📄📑 New publication: the Jovanic team @neuropsi.bsky.social & collaborators from @pasteur.fr & @unicologne.bsky.social show that in Drosophila larva 🪱, an homologue of the vertebrate Neuropeptide Y modulates reciprocally connected inhibitory neurons to bias non-feeding decisions. Learn more 🔽🔽🔽

👏 Huge congrats to @audeber.bsky.social, group leader and head of our Molecular Diversity of Microbes lab, on being named a 2025 Vallee Scholar! Her pioneering work on ancestral immunity opens new perspectives for biomedical innovation. 🔬🌍 @valleefoundation.bsky.social #Science #Immunity

Enroll in our Online Course Modeling of Infectious Diseases! 🌐🦠 👉 www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/m... In this online MOOC, you'll gain a solid foundation in mathematical modeling with a comprehensive approach to understanding the dynamics of infectious diseases.

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry. Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, [email protected], PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬 Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

New #review out 🚨 for mosquito enthusiasts 🦟 ! Have you ever questioned the approach you routinely use to investigate #mosquito-virus #interactions? ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🇫🇷 Le savais-tu ? Ton système immunitaire a une école: le thymus! Là, les cellules T apprennent qui combattreet surtout qui épargner✨ 🇬🇧 Did you know? Your immune system has a school: the thymus! There, T cells learn who to fightand, importantly, who not to✨ www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/sweetbr...

Does #dengue virus hijack #mosquitoes' brain? Study led by Felix Hol @pasteur.fr discovered that infected mosquitoes take smaller blood meals. As a result, they bite more often, and potentially infect infect more people. (video in French with English subtitles available) youtu.be/2u_qckfAQa4?...

👏So proud to share @elodiecouderc.bsky.social work on the role of Vago-like genes in mosquito immunity. Please read her thread to get a sneak-peek of our work and find the full study here: rdcu.be/eCPmG

A l'IESC ce soir à 19h00 donnée par @dbikard.bsky.social Une conférence grand public va nous plonger dans un monde où l'IA et la biologie travaillent ensemble pour mieux comprendre le vivant, pour imaginer de nouveaux médicaments, mieux cibler certaines maladies et aller plus vite dans la recherche.

Huge congratulations to my awesome lab mates, @your-arpy.bsky.social, and their collaborators @pasteur.fr on publishing their new paper showing how rabies hijacks brain cells and revealing a rare astrocyte subtype that boosts viral transcription 🧪 #SingleCell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧬 The MOOC “Human Population and Evolutionary Genetics” is open for registration!! 👉 bit.ly/4fw3Zje 💀🌍 Where do we come from? What was the migration history of our species? What role does the Neanderthal genome play in our genetic heritage? How has our species adapted to different environments?

As the Amgen Scholars Program 2025 at the Institut Pasteur comes to an end, we asked our Scholars to describe this unique journey in 1 word 🎥Watch the video & discover their answers! 👉This international program empowers undergrad students to explore life sciences through a full summer of research

🎉 Thrilled to share that my PhD work is now published in Nucleic Acids Research! Huge thanks to my colleagues and mentors who made this journey possible 🙌 👉 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Welcome to Thalassoporum mexicanum 🇲🇽 and Tumidithrix helvetica 🇨🇭, two Cyanobacteriota species 🦠 successfully characterized by @aniketsaraf.bsky.social et al. #phylogenetics #genomics #taxonomy @pasteur.fr @microbiologysociety.org research.pasteur.fr/en/b/18sC dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006869

For those who love bacterial replicons, The ultimate review, from our lab, signed by the master of their evolution. ‪@val-meve.bsky.social‬ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our paper in PLoS Genetics with @umbertorosani.bsky.social and Marco Gerdol on the highly dynamic pangenome of basal chordates. It is enriched in defence and immunity genes (like in prokaryotes) and follows Mendelian inheritanceis rules. @plos.org journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

🦟🦠 Check out our latest article in @natcomms.nature.com on the genetic basis of #dengue virus susceptibility in #mosquitoes! Collaborative work brillantly led by @merklinglab.bsky.social and @elodiecouderc.bsky.social @pasteur.fr and primarily supported by @agencerecherche.bsky.social rdcu.be/eBbg7

With a combination of FIB-SEM, super-resolution & expansion #microscopy, Araujo Alves, Bastin et al @bastinlab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr reveal how IFT trains are progressively restricted to a limited number of #microtubule doublets in the flagellum of T. brucei. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cilia

🔬 New research on staphylococcus infections: 90% of golden staphylococcus strains carry a virus that controls their virulence. Blocking viral release renders bacteria harmless, opening potential therapeutic pathways. ↘️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🦠 14 years, one patient, one superbug @yersiniaunit.bsky.social scientists tracked Yersinia enterocolitica mutations as it developed antibiotic resistance over 14 years. Unprecedented view of bacterial evolution under treatment pressure 💊  pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40595576/ #AMR #yersinia

New work from @beckof.bsky.social and our lab's collaboration, with @alengronne.bsky.social! Multifaceted influence of transcription on yeast chromosome folding... loop extrusion of course but also active promoters making loops, bypassing centromeres boundaries www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We @singh-parul.bsky.social teamed up with the amazing @fariatrypslab.bsky.social @trypsleon.bsky.social to highlight how recent technological advances have revealed exciting new features of parasite genome architecture and its impact on survival and pathogenicity: www.cell.com/trends/paras...

"I think that in Europe there is a better balance than in other places in terms of life, personal life and professional life." Nicolás Rascovan, Argentinian researcher at @pasteur.fr, Paris. #ChooseEuropeForScience

After an #infection with the #coronavirus Sars-CoV-2, the #virus is able to persist at low levels in the 🧠 brainstem, new research from 🇫🇷 @pasteur.fr finds. This helps explain some of the enduring neurological symptoms. #Neurology

From São Paulo to Paris 🇧🇷🇫🇷 Meet Guilherme Dias de Melo, exploring how viruses like SARS-CoV-2 & rabies invade the brain. His mission: unlock the mysteries of long COVID & find treatments. Full story here ↘️ www.pasteur.fr/en/home/rese...