Benoit Marteyn
@marteynlab.bsky.social
Team located on the University of Strasbourg campus (IBMC) with a remaining link with the Institut Pasteur.
Shigella, neutrophils, oxygen, RNA among other favorite research topics
Shigella, neutrophils, oxygen, RNA among other favorite research topics
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Call for #poster #abstracts is open for the #Shigella meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social thru Feb! Secure your spot by #registering! #ShowUsYourScience
#MicroSky #IDSky 🦠 🧫🔬
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...
#MicroSky #IDSky 🦠 🧫🔬
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...
Call for abstracts - EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention
EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org
February 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Call for #poster #abstracts is open for the #Shigella meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social thru Feb! Secure your spot by #registering! #ShowUsYourScience
#MicroSky #IDSky 🦠 🧫🔬
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...
#MicroSky #IDSky 🦠 🧫🔬
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...
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IRF2 regulates both GSDMD expression and NK cells antibacterial functions. Check the latest paper from the lab @ciri-lyon.bsky.social published in @emboreports.org. IRF2 as a key immune regulator against our favorite bug, #Francisella tularensis! #inflammasome link.springer.com/article/10.1...
IRF2 deficiency disrupts pyroptosis, NK cell interferon-γ production and resistance to Francisella - EMBO Reports
IRF2 plays an indirect role in inflammasome activation by regulating Caspase-4 and Gasdermin D (GSDMD) levels. However, the in vivo relevance of this regulatory circuit is unknown. We generate IRF2KO ...
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February 2, 2026 at 7:25 AM
IRF2 regulates both GSDMD expression and NK cells antibacterial functions. Check the latest paper from the lab @ciri-lyon.bsky.social published in @emboreports.org. IRF2 as a key immune regulator against our favorite bug, #Francisella tularensis! #inflammasome link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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We are looking for a junior group leader in RNA biology to join us in Würzburg at the @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social !
A generous funding package, a great collaborative environment, and a beautiful city are all included :)
Deadline for application is Feb 15; more information below 👇
A generous funding package, a great collaborative environment, and a beautiful city are all included :)
Deadline for application is Feb 15; more information below 👇
January 28, 2026 at 9:28 AM
We are looking for a junior group leader in RNA biology to join us in Würzburg at the @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social !
A generous funding package, a great collaborative environment, and a beautiful city are all included :)
Deadline for application is Feb 15; more information below 👇
A generous funding package, a great collaborative environment, and a beautiful city are all included :)
Deadline for application is Feb 15; more information below 👇
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🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
Postdoctoral position - Synthetic Biology / Bacterial Immunity - Research
The Bikard lab at Institut Pasteur in Paris is seeking to hire postdoctoral researchers. We are investigating bacteria / bacteriophages interactions, and the genetic innovation that happens at this in...
research.pasteur.fr
January 28, 2026 at 11:19 AM
🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
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PhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details
Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Microbial metal-head: the integrated roles of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interaction at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
PhD position available in our team to study how UPEC exploits metals to successfully colonise the host gut. Cool collaboration with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @banzhaflab.bsky.social Please share and get in touch for more details
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This is a cool paper
"The targeting of CD44 by CMV reveals CD44 as a molecule that is essential to the functioning of the FRC network and uncovers a previously unrecognized stroma-based mechanism that is critical for the generation of effective T cell responses." #Immunology
"The targeting of CD44 by CMV reveals CD44 as a molecule that is essential to the functioning of the FRC network and uncovers a previously unrecognized stroma-based mechanism that is critical for the generation of effective T cell responses." #Immunology
Fibroblastic reticular cells direct the initiation of T cell responses via CD44 - Nature
CD44 expressed by fibroblastic reticular cells in secondary lymphoid organs regulates trafficking of dendritic cells, and thus has an essential role in the priming of T cells and the adaptive immune r...
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This is a cool paper
"The targeting of CD44 by CMV reveals CD44 as a molecule that is essential to the functioning of the FRC network and uncovers a previously unrecognized stroma-based mechanism that is critical for the generation of effective T cell responses." #Immunology
"The targeting of CD44 by CMV reveals CD44 as a molecule that is essential to the functioning of the FRC network and uncovers a previously unrecognized stroma-based mechanism that is critical for the generation of effective T cell responses." #Immunology
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Mapping the ultrastructural topology of septin cage entrapment
PhD studentship with @carolynmoores1.bsky.social
Direct link here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
PhD studentship with @carolynmoores1.bsky.social
Direct link here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
2026-27 Bloomsbury Colleges PhD Studentships | LSHTM
The Bloomsbury Colleges group was set up in 2004 and consists of five institutions: Birkbeck, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), the School of
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January 20, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Mapping the ultrastructural topology of septin cage entrapment
PhD studentship with @carolynmoores1.bsky.social
Direct link here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
PhD studentship with @carolynmoores1.bsky.social
Direct link here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
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January 14, 2026 at 8:55 AM
📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
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Don't miss the opportunity to discover Raphael Valdivia's great research and to connect with the community!
Happy New Year!
Exciting announcement:
Prof. Raphael H. Valdivia will be a key note speaker at the 2026 UK CellularMicrobiologyNetwork meeting!
Join us 22nd - 23rd of June in Belfast to hear about his and share your exciting work on host-pathogen interactions.
Stay tuned ! www.ukcellmicro.org
Exciting announcement:
Prof. Raphael H. Valdivia will be a key note speaker at the 2026 UK CellularMicrobiologyNetwork meeting!
Join us 22nd - 23rd of June in Belfast to hear about his and share your exciting work on host-pathogen interactions.
Stay tuned ! www.ukcellmicro.org
UK cell micro
UK Cellular microbiology network meeting
www.ukcellmicro.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Don't miss the opportunity to discover Raphael Valdivia's great research and to connect with the community!
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Really happy to see this paper come out! It's so long ago we started this that no one can remember the date...Congrats to all Contributors. A vessel on a chip model to study bacterial infections in the circulation, sepsis, meningitis. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
An in vitro human vessel model to study Neisseria meningitidis colonization and vascular damages
A vessel on a chip microfluidic device recapitulates the main features of meningococcal vascular colonization, providing high time and space microscopy resolution of the infection process in 3D.
doi.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Really happy to see this paper come out! It's so long ago we started this that no one can remember the date...Congrats to all Contributors. A vessel on a chip model to study bacterial infections in the circulation, sepsis, meningitis. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Our first paper is out today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com!
We introduce a prostate organoid model and show that UPEC invades prostate cells via FimH binding to the prostate-specific protein PAPP. A step toward targeted therapies against bacterial prostatitis. 🎉
#UTI #UPEC #Organoids #AMR
We introduce a prostate organoid model and show that UPEC invades prostate cells via FimH binding to the prostate-specific protein PAPP. A step toward targeted therapies against bacterial prostatitis. 🎉
#UTI #UPEC #Organoids #AMR
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli invade luminal prostate cells via FimH–PPAP receptor binding - Nature Microbiology
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection of a murine prostate organoid model reveals a bacterial FimH–host prostatic acid phosphatase adhesin-receptor interaction enabling invasion and replication wit...
www.nature.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Our first paper is out today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com!
We introduce a prostate organoid model and show that UPEC invades prostate cells via FimH binding to the prostate-specific protein PAPP. A step toward targeted therapies against bacterial prostatitis. 🎉
#UTI #UPEC #Organoids #AMR
We introduce a prostate organoid model and show that UPEC invades prostate cells via FimH binding to the prostate-specific protein PAPP. A step toward targeted therapies against bacterial prostatitis. 🎉
#UTI #UPEC #Organoids #AMR
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Our lab is hiring a PhD student to investigate how glycans affect antitumor immune responses in metastases and how this can be modulated to improve immunotherapy! More info here 👇
#glycotime
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
#glycotime
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
Vacatures - PhD tumor immunology of peritoneal metastasis - Amsterdam UMC
Colorectal cancer with peritoneal metastases has a particularly poor prognosis. In this KWF-funded project, you will investigate how glycan structures affect immune responses in peritoneal metastasis and whether glycan inhibition can restore anti-tumor immunity.
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Our lab is hiring a PhD student to investigate how glycans affect antitumor immune responses in metastases and how this can be modulated to improve immunotherapy! More info here 👇
#glycotime
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
#glycotime
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
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Happy New Year Shigellophiles! There's only 105 days to go ... don't forget to get your abstract in!
Come and visit me in Paris! #Shigella2026 - travel bursaries deadline tomorrow. Submit your abstracts at www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
Come and join us in Paris 2026 to talk all about Shigella!
January 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Happy New Year Shigellophiles! There's only 105 days to go ... don't forget to get your abstract in!
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A molecule designed to activate iron locked up in lysosomes and induce cell death might offer a way to tackle treatment-resistant cancer
go.nature.com/4oXWEvY
go.nature.com/4oXWEvY
Lipid-degrading small molecule kills cancer cells by ferroptosis
A molecule designed to activate iron locked up in organelles called lysosomes and thereby induce cell death might offer a way to tackle treatment-resistant cancer.
go.nature.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A molecule designed to activate iron locked up in lysosomes and induce cell death might offer a way to tackle treatment-resistant cancer
go.nature.com/4oXWEvY
go.nature.com/4oXWEvY
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Looking for a POSTDOC to work on jumbo phages (those with large genomes and fascinating cell biology), using our latest ASO technology (Gerovac M et al. 2025 Nature) to define RNA export mechanisms as well as to help to advance phage therapy. Here's the job ad.
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Looking for a POSTDOC to work on jumbo phages (those with large genomes and fascinating cell biology), using our latest ASO technology (Gerovac M et al. 2025 Nature) to define RNA export mechanisms as well as to help to advance phage therapy. Here's the job ad.
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🦠 EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention
📅 April 20-24, 2026
📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris
Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
@embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social
📅 April 20-24, 2026
📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris
Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
@embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🦠 EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention
📅 April 20-24, 2026
📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris
Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
@embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social
📅 April 20-24, 2026
📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris
Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
@embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social
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Come and visit me in Paris! #Shigella2026 - travel bursaries deadline tomorrow. Submit your abstracts at www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
Come and join us in Paris 2026 to talk all about Shigella!
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Come and visit me in Paris! #Shigella2026 - travel bursaries deadline tomorrow. Submit your abstracts at www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
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🔬 Honoring Spencer Shorte's legacy
Jan 28, 2026 Institut Pasteur symposium celebrating a pioneering figure in bioimaging & core facilities.
Scientists worldwide will share how his visionary work continues to shape research.
Free registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
Jan 28, 2026 Institut Pasteur symposium celebrating a pioneering figure in bioimaging & core facilities.
Scientists worldwide will share how his visionary work continues to shape research.
Free registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🔬 Honoring Spencer Shorte's legacy
Jan 28, 2026 Institut Pasteur symposium celebrating a pioneering figure in bioimaging & core facilities.
Scientists worldwide will share how his visionary work continues to shape research.
Free registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
Jan 28, 2026 Institut Pasteur symposium celebrating a pioneering figure in bioimaging & core facilities.
Scientists worldwide will share how his visionary work continues to shape research.
Free registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in our team at the @unistra @ibmc.bsky.social - 3 year ANR project in collaboration with the @dumenillab.bsky.social at @pasteur.fr focused on the survival of pathogenic bacteria upon plasma exposure
Apply here :
emploi.cnrs.fr/Gestion/Offr...
Apply here :
emploi.cnrs.fr/Gestion/Offr...
December 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in our team at the @unistra @ibmc.bsky.social - 3 year ANR project in collaboration with the @dumenillab.bsky.social at @pasteur.fr focused on the survival of pathogenic bacteria upon plasma exposure
Apply here :
emploi.cnrs.fr/Gestion/Offr...
Apply here :
emploi.cnrs.fr/Gestion/Offr...
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After D2449 by rdsA, now new methylations in E.coli rRNA under stress 💫
Hypoxia-induced D(5S)m2449 and Cm(5S)m2498 modifications in the 23S rRNA promotes protein synthesis #MicroSky #RNASky 🧪 www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Hypoxia-induced ribosomal RNA modifications in the peptidyl-transferase center contribute to anaerobic growth of bacteria
Ishiguro et al. identify stereoselective ribose-backbone methylations in the peptidyl-transferase
center of E. coli ribosomes, installed by the cobalamin-dependent enzyme RlmX. These
methylations, tog...
www.cell.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
After D2449 by rdsA, now new methylations in E.coli rRNA under stress 💫
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🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research
The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...
research.pasteur.fr
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing soon 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing soon 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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We have an open call for a group leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging in Würzburg, Germany.
Generous starting package, vibrant and highly interdisciplinary biomedical research environment.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Please spread the word.
Generous starting package, vibrant and highly interdisciplinary biomedical research environment.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Please spread the word.
Group Leader (f/m/d) at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with University of Würzburg - Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative a...
The Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging (RVZ) ist now inviting applications for the position of Group Leader (f/m/d).
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We have an open call for a group leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging in Würzburg, Germany.
Generous starting package, vibrant and highly interdisciplinary biomedical research environment.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Please spread the word.
Generous starting package, vibrant and highly interdisciplinary biomedical research environment.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Please spread the word.
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Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.
December 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.
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"Cell la vie!" meeting is back!📅
The French Society for Cell Biology is pleased to announce that the next edition will take place on October 21-23, 2026 in Paris.
This year will focus on the needs & challenges to explore the life sciences with an highlight on the role of microscopy. 🔬
Stay tuned!
The French Society for Cell Biology is pleased to announce that the next edition will take place on October 21-23, 2026 in Paris.
This year will focus on the needs & challenges to explore the life sciences with an highlight on the role of microscopy. 🔬
Stay tuned!
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Cell la vie!" meeting is back!📅
The French Society for Cell Biology is pleased to announce that the next edition will take place on October 21-23, 2026 in Paris.
This year will focus on the needs & challenges to explore the life sciences with an highlight on the role of microscopy. 🔬
Stay tuned!
The French Society for Cell Biology is pleased to announce that the next edition will take place on October 21-23, 2026 in Paris.
This year will focus on the needs & challenges to explore the life sciences with an highlight on the role of microscopy. 🔬
Stay tuned!