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 👏

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!

🚨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....

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

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...

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...

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

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 🧵

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 🧵

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

🔵⚪🔴 - 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 !

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!”

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 🧵

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 ✌️

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

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

🔵⚪🔴 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

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

🔵⚪🔴 - 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

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

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!!

🔵⚪🔴 #meettheteam Pour finir en beauté, voici celui que vous attendiez tous... LE CHEF !!! Laurent Debarbieux a relancé une activité de recherche sur la phagothérapie à @pasteur.fr depuis 2006. Une aventure qui se poursuit aujourd'hui avec toute l'équipe !

ENG- Last, but definitely not least, in our #meettheteam series, it's the one you've all been waiting for ........... THE BOSS!! Laurent Debarbieux has reignited a phage therapy research lab at @pasteur.fr since 2006 and it's been quite the ride (if we may say so ourselves)

🔵⚪🔴Si vous nous suivez depuis un certain temps, vous reconnaîtrez peut-être ce membre de notre équipe, qui figurait dans notre tout premier post Nicolas Dufour est un chercheur associé qui partage son temps entre le laboratoire BBH et son travail clinique dans une unité de soins intensifs

#meettheteam If you've been following us for a bit, you might recognize this member of our team, who was featured on our very first post Nicolas Dufour is an associated researcher who splits his time between the BBH lab and his clinical work at an intensive care unit

🔵⚪🔴Félicitations à notre chère Camille Sivelle, qui a soutenu son mémoire de M2 aujourd'hui! 🥳 Son travail portait sur l'étude de l'émergence de la résistance aux phages dans différentes souches de bactéries. Nous ne savons toujours pas comment elle a réussi à présenter toutes ses données en 15 min

ENG- Congratulations are in order for our very own Camille Sivelle, who had her M2 defense today!!🥳 Her work was a thorough study of the emergence of phage resistance in different strains of bacteria, using wet lab methods. We're still not quite sure how she managed to fit all her data in 15 slides

FRA 🔴⚪🔵 #notreéquipe Saviez-vous que >480 Postdocs travaillent chez @pasteur.fr? Aujourd'hui, vous allez rencontrer l'un d'entre eux! Voici José Alejandro Bohorquez @bohorquezalejo.bsky.social qui travaille chez nous depuis 6 mois et étudie l'effet de l'immunité sur la phagothérapie dans les poumons

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

#meettheteam Meet Caroline Henrot, another member of our "Gut" team She's a 3rd year PhD candidate, working between the BBH and MICALIS @inrae-france.bsky.social Her research focuses on signaling involved in sustained prophage induction in the gut . . . . . Have we mentioned prophages are COOL???😎

#meettheteam A lot of the work for a research lab is not ACTUALLY performed on the bench, that's why it helps to have a good administrative assistant!! At the BBH we're lucky to have Eric Figueroa-Acosta helping us out with the (many) administrative tasks needed for the daily functioning of the lab

NEW LAB MEMBER THIS WEEK!!!!!🥳 We'll be hosting Melissa Umaña, a biotech student from The Costa Rica Institute of Technology, from now until December Always nice to see a new face around the lab #BBHPasteur

It's fair to say that the subject of today's #meettheteam spotlight, Marie Messika, performs some of the most eye-catching work in the lab We don't have enough characters to ellaborate so we'll just summarize it with emojis for now 💩🦠➡️🐭 #BBHPasteur

FRA Les techniciens sont des éléments fondamentaux dans un laboratoire de recherche! Nous sommes donc ravis de vous présenter Céline Mulet Elle travaille depuis 3 ans au BBH, mais depuis >30 ans chez @pasteur.fr Elle nous aide, entre autres, sur nos modèles in vivo 🐭 et l'histopathologie 🔬

ENG #meettheteam 📢TECHNICIANS ARE A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF ANY RESEARCH LAB!! 📢, so we're glad to introduce you to Céline Mulet She's been working at @pasteur.fr for over 30 years and for the past 3 she's been at the BBH, helping us out with our in vivo models 🐭 and histopathology 🔬 among other things

#meettheteam Today our spotlight is on prophages! .... Or at least on our prophage guy. Meet Luis Tanoeiro (@ltanoeiro.bsky.social) a PhD candidate splitting his time between our lab and Bioisi (U. of Lisbon @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social) working with Filipa Vale's team Prophages are COOL!!!

Look who showed up at our lab today 👀 None other than @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and Jérémy Seurat We had a mini reunion with some of the authors in our recent Nature comm paper (sadly missing Sophia, one of the lead authors) Thanks for the visit, exciting things coming from our collaboration!!

#meettheteam Today you get to meet one of our PhD candidates, Ngoc-Minh-Chau Nguyen She's been with the lab for >2 years, working on developing in vitro models to study bacterial infections in the lung. If you've got questions about cell culture or fluorescence microscopy, she's your person!!!

#meettheteam Today we're introducing Nandita Sharma, a Postdoc on the BBH lab and a very important part of our "gut" team She works mainly on Citrobacter (hence the Drigalski agar), using gnotobiotic mouse models and also has experience in CRISPR-Cas systems on Salmonella

Today we're celebrating! Summer is here and it came with a "Groot" grant from @pasteur.fr for Nicolas Dufour (pictured left and who may have hurt his finger during grant-writing by the looks of it) and Quentin Lamy-Besnier (on the right with the cool artsy shirt) Congrats to both of you!!

We thought it'd be cool for you guys to #meettheteam so, starting today, we're gonna be sharing some of the work performed at our lab, and the people performing it

If our recent paper caught your attention, but you haven't had time to look it over, the nice folks at the University of Maryland have you covered! Now you can start by reading this summary, which includes commentary from the paper's authors medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07...

This week the BBH is hosting Dinesh Subedi, a postdoc at Monash University and adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales. Today he shared with us his work on the generation of a phage cocktail against Enterobacter cloacae complex, an important nosocomial infection #phagetherapy

TL,DR: Very happy to share our joint investigation (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) with the Weitz’s lab (@joshuasweitz.bsky.social) to understand how alveolar macrophages reduce pulmonary phage therapy efficacy. Congrats to both teams for successfully integrating in vivo and modeling data #phage

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT!!!🚨 The BBH lab is proud to present the latest www.nature.com/articles/s41... from our collaboration with @joshuasweitz.bsky.social (now at UMaryland), evaluating the importance of alveolar macrophages (AM) for the efficacy of phage therapy against P. aeruginosa Let's dig in (1/6)

A heartfelt, if (very) delayed, congratulations to the new BBH Doctor!!! Devon Conti, who's been with the group since 2021, defended her thesis “Tripartite Interplay between Host, Bacteria and Bacteriophages in Pathogen-Driven Gut Inflammation” on May 15th and it was quite the event!!

Champagne to congratulate Nicolas’s HDR defense and to celebrate our new account in Bluesky