Today was a great day for Charline Pasquier, who successfully defended her PhD thesis in front of the jury composed of @annemarthe.bsky.social @ericci-aeruginosa.bsky.social, Stefania Millevoi and Jean-Luc Imler. Congratulations to her for a brilliant defense! 🍾

Today @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Genome-wide mapping of RNA-protein associations through sequencing go.nature.com/4gmf1Ii

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could help fight antibiotic resistance, but phage–host interactions are not yet sufficiently understood. Researchers from #HIRI, JMU & HZI now successfully interfered with phage reproduction using ASOs. Just out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our work on the function of miR-51/miR-100 is out! miR-100 is widely conserved across eumetazoans but its function has been mysterious. Emilio Santillán found in worms it regulates signaling and extracellular matrix genes, some of which seem to be conserved targets! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper from Bin Cao, showing that placenta-specific KO of ADAR1 is embryonic lethal.

#InterferonPower! Thrilled for our latest work @cp-cell.bsky.social! With @danielboehmer.bsky.social, we dug into tons of papers & created what we hope will be a go-to resource for immunologists & non-immunologist about type I, II, III (& IV😉) #interferons! Free👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1leKGL7PXu...

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

RNA N-glycosylation enables immune evasion and homeostatic efferocytosis by chemically caging acp3U. Excited to report this work lead by Vinnie @vinnieviruses.bsky.social and in collaboration with @vijayrathinam.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

bioRxiv bat signal going up. We have a big backlog of submissions. If any affiliates have time to do some screening, we (and all the authors) would be immensely grateful! 🙏

last call! submit your abstract by tonight to be selected for one of the many oral presentations at the leading European Transposon Meeting. We are very much looking forward to your contribution and attendance!

Une protéine humaine héritée des bactéries révèle un pan méconnu de notre immunité. Lire le communiqué : presse.inserm.fr/une-proteine...

🚨Preprint alert! Kind of a late notice, but here is our latest work on bat Dicer and viral infection. Work led by @leagaucherand.bsky.social and Hugo Marie in the lab. @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @unistra.fr @frm-officiel.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am happy to share our last preprint, where we identified FASN as an endogenous dsRNA-associated factor and demonstrated that its depletion triggers endodsRNA accumulation and a stronger antiviral response to exogenous dsRNAs,#RNA, #interferon,#immunometabolism www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Hot off the press, our latest review of RNA-lipid interactions -> The secret life of RNA and lipids: "There is no life without RNA or lipids. But could there be life with only RNA and lipids?" @tcjea.bsky.social @bcube-tud.bsky.social be-tud.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Corey Allard et al asks how “solar-powered” slugs maintain stolen chloroplasts from their diet for photosynthesis and starvation resistance. @cellpress.bsky.social, @harvardmcb.bsky.social, @harvardmed.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)

Hi 🦋 I’m thrilled to share that our #bat #organoid work has found a publishing home in Nature Immunology! These models provided unprecedented insight into antiviral immunity at epithelial surfaces of the Egyptian fruit bat 🦇 — a natural reservoir of Marburg virus 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now in press: Marie Lork & our collaborators studied host transposable elements during influenza A virus infection. We found evidence that some produce dsRNA, but that these host dsRNAs are limited from reaching the cytosol by the viral NS1 protein. @emboreports.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our latest @cp-cell.bsky.social. We present VICAR (VIral-induced Centromeric DNA Amplification and Recognition), a new defense system to detect viruses in the nucleus based on nuclear cGAS. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

It really is that simple!

📈 Chine, Hong Kong, Thaïlande, Taïwan... Nouvelle vague de #Covid19 en Asie, rapportent de nombreux médias locaux. En France, la circulation virale dans les eaux usées a un peu augmenté ces dernières semaines mais elle reste à de très bas niveaux. www.courrierinternat...

🚨 Out Now! Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus induces mitochondrial fission to evade host immune responses and promote viral production #MicroSky #Virus 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NatureMicroPicks 🦇 ex vivo models for bat viruses! Bat organoids as new models to study zoonotic viruses. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bat cells for virology and innate immunology. Sneha Khedkar highlights our study in The Scientist: www.the-scientist.com/bat-cells-in... Link to original paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @fviromics.bsky.social @stephseifertphd.bsky.social

Stop for a second and try to imagine this: a heat shock protein relocalizes to the cell surface and mediates dsRNA binding and internalization! Intrigued? Read our newly minted paper in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats to all the authors and thanks to reviewers and editor!

LE MILLION ! LE MILLION ! 🥳🥳🥳

Some small molecules modulate protein condensation in cells, but how? Our latest work shows a possible mechanism of action of the small molecule lipoamide. This molecule prevents condensation of stress granules whose components are found as protein aggregates in ALS. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Erika Girardi @alphaerika.bsky.social who received today the Guy Ourisson Prize from the Cercle Gutenberg! A very well deserved award who was presented by Eric Westhof. @unistra.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social www.cercle-gutenberg.fr/titulaires-e...

Cet événement « Choose Europe for Science » organisé par Macron est une opération de diversion. Pas un seul universitaire français n’y participe : il fait suite à une série de coupes budgétaires sans précédent dans la recherche académique (-3,5 Mds d’euros). www.education.gouv.fr/lancement-de...

ECV2025 opened this sunday in Cavtat! Congrats to Prof. Stipan Jonjić on winning the European Virology Award for his groundbreaking #CMV immune control research. Inspiring talk & great start to the congress! We are excited for the following days! #ECV2025 #Virology #ScienceCollaboration #ESV #Award

#ECV #ECV2025 very proud of @viroscope.bsky.social that presented brilliantly his work in our lab “Deltaviruses spread through viral Trojan Horse” at the European Congress of Virology 2025 in Cavtat, Croatia !

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Research on the #bat innate #ImmuneResponse to pathogens is hindered by a lack of lab reagents. @fviromics.bsky.social @stephseifertphd.bsky.social @virology.bsky.social &co generate new bat #CellLines, enabling studies on viral susceptibility & immune responses @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4jkXukf

I have exhorted others to share positive news even in these uncertain times for US science. I am really excited that @tamanash.bsky.social’s first paper on the remarkable evolutionary gymnastics of dual-host viruses (even in single codons) is now online. Follow along here 🧪🧵

The final version of our work on the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is now online in @science.org 🎉 You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life 👩‍🎨

#standupforscience2025 NYC

Encore bravo pour cette mobilisation. Le combat pour les libertés académiques continue.

More white coats, less white robes! @eddpasquier.bsky.social #standupforscience #standupforscience2025

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

"In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet 'agency priorities'" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I hesitate to share this because I cringe at the sound of my own voice, but I must say that Chloe Aftel is a wonderful interviewer and made me comfortable despite this being a rather fish-out-of-water experience for me. theotherpod.com/newepisodes/...

In her Essay, Renata Basto highlights the huge budget cuts facing the scientific community in France. In response to the cuts, a group of researchers has formed the ‘Pour une Recherche d'Avenir’ initiative to secure the future of French research. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

#VeilleESR #ESR Le lancement de la mobilisation du 7 mars pour défendre les sciences et la démocratie contre l'obscurantisme et les extrême-droites a eu lieu cette nuit. L'effort fait par des composantes diverses de la communauté scientifique pour s'unir est incroyable. standupforscience.fr

#Argonautes2025 update ... it will happen this August (27-30) @imgprague.bsky.social. Our ITs are finishing and testing the website, the registration will open on March 1st. More info will be provided later (once all speakers reply to my e-mail, just saying, not pushing 😁). Poster announcement:

We are looking for a #postdoc to discover cell-autonomous innate immune antiviral factors in mammals, based on newly-identified defense of prokaryotes! #EvoCure #comparativeImmunology #virology Please share @inserm.fr @ciri-lyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social ciri.ens-lyon.fr/teams/lp2l/j...

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